Google casts cloud of uncertainty over US 700MHz auction

What is being called the 100-year auction, perhaps the last chance to grab substantial amounts of US spectrum in the foreseeable future, is scheduled to start on January 16 2008.

The spectrum in question is the 700MHz band, part of the UHF spectrum being freed up by the switch from analogue to digital broadcasting branded the digital dividend. Europe is several years behind the US in the switchover and European auctions will not be held for several more years, so what happens in the US will been closely watched by regulators in Europe and elsewhere.

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