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5G Fanfare Will overpaying for spectrum come back to haunt the UK's big 4?

2018-04-06 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news

Collectively, Britain's big four mobile network operators spent more than £1.35 billion at Ofcom's 5G spectrum auction – a princely sum but significantly less than the £2.3 billion raised in the 4G auction of 2013. Indeed, the figure pales into near insignificance when compared to the absurdly bloated figure of £22.5 billion raised in 2000 for the 3G licenses.    Despite the comparatively low revenues generated, analysts are hailing the auction as a success, with the final figure of £1.35 billion beating most analysts' predictions by around 35 per cent.  So now that the network operators have parted with their hard-earned cash, is Britain actually any closer to rolling out 5G services?  The short answer is no…read more on TotalTele.com »

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