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UMTS Licensing in Western Europe

In: The Future of Mobile Communications

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  • Peter Curwen

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Final decisions on procedures for the award of 20-year UMTS licences were announced in July 2000. Twelve frequency packages of 5MHz paired (upstream/downstream) – a total of 120 MHz – were put on offer with bidders obliged to offer to buy either two or three packages. Thus, the intention was that either four or six licences would be auctioned. The auction, in November, which was based upon the rule book established for the German auction, was preceded by a ‘beauty contest’ based upon applicants’ technical and economic ability to deliver the service, including their ability to cover at least 25 per cent of the population by the end of 2003 and 50 per cent by the end of 2005. The auction rules required incremental bids above the highest in the previous round to be initially at least 10 per cent higher but falling gradually to 2 per cent higher. The auction would terminate when no valid bids were made for any of the packages in the course of a single round.

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  • Peter Curwen, 2002. "UMTS Licensing in Western Europe," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: The Future of Mobile Communications, chapter 3, pages 55-90, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-4039-1865-9_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781403918659_3
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