Ofcom pushes back UK phone spectrum auction
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 at 9:07 AM PST In Telecommunications
Ofcom (the UK communications regulator ) has pushed back plans for an auction of radio spectrum due to legal challenges from O2 (NYSE: TEF) and T-Mobile (NYSE: DT).
As you might remember from past postings I have made, there was due to be an auction this September for 2.6 gigahertz and 2010 megahertz spectrum – which could be used for things such as wireless broadband, and mobile multimedia (read Mobile TV) services.
T-Mobile and O2s’ objections are that they are not clear what they can do with their existing spectrum, and hence cannot calculate how much of the new spectrum allocation they would need (and hence bid for).
Let’s hope this gets sorted out sooner rather than later – with Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) snapping up a chunk of spectrum in the recent auction, further delays mean that newer innovative services will be delayed.
[Via: cellular-news]
