Germany’s auction of radio spectrum made an additional 4.38 billion EUR for the government, which is significantly lower than the 8 billion EUR analysts have predicted.
The Bundesnetzagentur, Germany’s telecom regulator, announced that the winners in the highly desired 800MHz band, which will be used for launching LTE services, are Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile, Vodafone and Telefonica O2, with each of them securing two 10MHz blocks of the spectrum.
Here’s the recap of the winners and how much they paid for their licenses:
- 800MHz: Telefonica O2 (1.212 billion EUR), Vodafone (1.210 billion EUR) and Deutsche Telekom (1.154 billion EUR)
- 1.8GHz: Deutsche Telekom (61.3 million EUR) and E-Plus (43.1 million EUR)
- 2GHz: E-Plus (187.4 million EUR), Vodafone (93.8 million EUR) and Telefonica O2 (78.4 million EUR).
- 2.6GHz: Vodafone (118.4 million EUR), Telefonica O2 (87.9 million EUR), Deutsche Telekom (84.8 million EUR) and E-Plus (53.2 million EUR).
In total, the regulator offered 41 frequency blocks across the four frequency bands.
Before I let you go, make sure to read Stefan’s great post about “LTE mess” emerging that will see parts of the world deploying services on 700MHz whereas some others, Europe included, on 800MHz bands, again making sure interoperability sucks, big time…
[Via: CellularNews]