UMTS Forum Vice-Chairmen at odds over spectrum liberalisation

A UMTS Forum report which claimed that liberalisation would hurt the
mobile industry and consumers has been strongly condemned by a Forum
member, Nortel, highlighting the sharp industry divisions on this issue.

Nortel has dismissed the conclusions of an UMTS Forum report which
said spectrum liberalisation would increase industry costs by 23% and cut customer purchasing power by €244Bn.
The report, called Thriving in Harmony, and produced
for the Forum by the consultants Booz Allen Hamilton argued that
abandoning the current harmonised approach to planning mobile
spectrum would fragment the market.

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