Friday, October 7, 2011

4G auction faces further delay as Ofcom postpones date of sale

12:20 PM | Posted by ProJ | | Edit Post

UK lags behind other major European countries who have completed or are proposed for sale

Regulators

have again postponed the date for the 4G auction of billions of pounds of mobile phone spectrum, with the sell-off now, because at the end of 2012, in a move that could delay creating high-quality mobile Internet services to deal with the explosion in the use of smartphones.

Because Ofcom Telecommunications Monitoring decided again to break the rules for the auction after pressure from network operators, the UK, now seems to be the last major European economies sale auction of its waves. Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden have already completed its auction of radio spectrum for television, and France is in the middle of its liquidation.

The United Kingdom was originally designed to celebrate the part of the spectrum auction in 2009. Legal battles, political interference and the change of government was moved so far this year, most recently in mid-2012. Now it should be delayed until the last quarter of 2012.

James Barford Research Council

Enders Analysis, said: "This process has been delayed for several years, it is difficult to assign individual blame, with Ofcom, both governments and mobile operators all Thurs roles .. "

The rules of the auction in progress, which are discarded, are designed to provide a small part of the spectrum to two of the four operators, three and all other everywhere, representing Orange and T-Mobile .
  • is understood that rival operators have successfully argued should be given special protection all around, now the biggest player in the UK with a share of 38%.
  • In an attempt to address most impact, Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt called the four leaders of the UK network at a meeting on November 21, where they try to discuss a background consensus.
The fear is that all around can take legal action that could delay the auction if you feel you were treated unfairly, but a spokesman said that he did not intent to sue.

Three, which has a market share of 8% has less spectrum than the other operators and begin to reach the capacity of certain parts of its network by the end of 2012, reacted angrily the last delay, saying that the extension of the "great commercial and competitive imbalance" between him and the major operators. A spokesman said: "We understand the desire to get this right Ofcom competitive basic question, however, UK consumers will have to wait longer to see the benefits of faster mobile Internet services across the country .. "

two types of spectrum being auctioned, 2600MHz and 800MHz. The latter, which is currently used to transmit analog TV signals, is the most valuable because it is better to pass through the walls and requires fewer antennas to achieve good coverage, so it is cheaper to build a network of around.
The 800MHz is not available for use until 2013, when the signal switches from analog to digital television, but three said that the 2600 can now be used to relieve urban networks, where The mobile Internet traffic is heaviest.

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