As always, the World Radio Conference has had to attempt a difficult balancing act between competing claims on spectrum resources, and that gets harder on each occasion, particularly as the mobile industry’s demands for ever-greater broadband capacity grow. While recognising the social and economic impact of mobile broadband, the WRC also has to be mindful of the needs of other users. And while this year’s conference did not have a specific remit to examine 5G spectrum options, the likely explosion in capacity which that will drive was the ever-present elephant in the room. Decisions made for current mobile broadband platforms will have their impact on 5G too. In some countries, the now-harmonized 700 MHz and 3.5 GHz bands will be…