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German Spectrum Auction Yields €4bn
31 May 2010 | 13.06 Europe/London
The auction of additional German radio spectrum for mobile use has raised €4.38 billion.
This is about half the forecast amount and is perhaps a reflection of the current financial climate and uncertainty in the Euro zone, or perhaps there are enough execs around with memories of being burned in the last lot of 3G auctions. Incumbent mobile operators Vodafone, O2 and T-mobile dominated, taking all of the 800 MHz "digital dividend" spectrum and leaving minnow E-Plus picking up spectrum in higher frequency ranges.
800 MHz is perceived as valuable for broadband, perhaps in rural areas, and each of the big operators bought two paired 5MHz blocks. With a spectral efficiency of 5 bits/s per Hz this would give each carrier a realistic sector bandwidth downstream of 12 Mbits/s total, shared between all their users on that sector antenna.
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This is about half the forecast amount and is perhaps a reflection of the current financial climate and uncertainty in the Euro zone, or perhaps there are enough execs around with memories of being burned in the last lot of 3G auctions. Incumbent mobile operators Vodafone, O2 and T-mobile dominated, taking all of the 800 MHz "digital dividend" spectrum and leaving minnow E-Plus picking up spectrum in higher frequency ranges.
800 MHz is perceived as valuable for broadband, perhaps in rural areas, and each of the big operators bought two paired 5MHz blocks. With a spectral efficiency of 5 bits/s per Hz this would give each carrier a realistic sector bandwidth downstream of 12 Mbits/s total, shared between all their users on that sector antenna.
[ Details at Mobile Broadband ] [ LTE performance ]