OfCom have announced that the implementation of the third release of their Licensing Platform Evolution (LPE 3) has been delayed due to issues that have arisen during product development. The delays have impacted the availability of the first phase of automation for shared access licences and have also delayed implementation of a few other policy decisions.
The impacted (delayed) policy decisions include primarily those documented in:
Updating the amateur radio licensing framework (Phases 2 and 3);
Extending access in the 26 GHz bands for Shared Access; and
a subset of the Proposed enhancements for Shared Access.
LPE 3 was originally planned for calendar Q2’2024 and is now expected to be available in calendar Q2’2025. […]