*Massachusetts issued its first licences in May 2004.
It already has banking licences in Djibouti and Somalia.
Natural England last comprehensively reviewed the general licences in 2008.
China will roll out its 4G networks after the expected awarding of licences in late 2013.
The Norwegian major, Statoil, said it was handing back three "frontier" exploration licences in Greenland.
It survived, too, the introduction of commercial radio licences in 1973.
We have made it clear that we are prepared to suspend pilots' licences in certain circumstances".
Three other planned independent dailies that got licences in May have yet to appear.
The government issued nine new banking licences in 2012, bringing the total number of banks to 56.
Correction: We originally stated that the decision not to issue new licences in urban areas stemmed from the FCC.
Some of the beneficiaries of a scandalous award of mobile-phone licences in 2007-08 were barely known provincial entrepreneurs.
