Opinion: The upcoming 2.5GHz auctions - lessons for Europe

The new round of 2.5GHz auctions, starting with Norway in November and followed by Sweden and the UK, could show regulators whether complex auction design is necessary to achieve the optimal result, argues Erlend Fanebust.

The European sequence of auctions of spectrum in the 2.5 GHz band is about to begin. Much have been said and written about this frequency band already. Will Sprint Nextel and Clearwire's Xohm service take off in the US? What about NTT DoCoMo and ACCA Wireless' Japanese WiMAX venture? Will mobile WiMAX revolutionize broadband access in countries with inferior or no wireline infrastructure? Can the GSM Association and major 3G equipment manufacturers fight off the challenge from Intel, Samsung and others by convincing European governments that the frequency band should be reserved for IMT2000 services using paired spectrum?

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