South Korea’s Central Radio Management Office will hold the Global Spectrum Management Forum 2026 on Sept. 1 under the theme of future spectrum management strategies to respond to a rapidly changing radio environment and new threats. The sixth annual forum will bring together overseas spectrum regulators, domestic related agencies and experts from industry and academia to share spectrum policies and technologies and promote international cooperation. Sessions will cover policy and regulatory shifts, AI-based monitoring and next-generation wireless ecosystems, and responses to new spectrum threats and complex disasters.

A machine-learning-based methodology developed by South Korean researchers to assess and predict frequency availability has been adopted as a new reference approach in international radio spectrum management. The Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute said an ITU-R Study Group 1 meeting in Geneva approved a new report on spectrum availability assessment and forecasting. The methodology draws on ETRI research using mobile network data and will be issued as an official ITU-R report after final editing.