Keenly contested Canadian AWS auction brings in €2.7 billion

What may be Canada's most successful spectrum auction from the point of view of both contribution to government coffers and new market entrants came to an end this week.

Regulator Industry Canada said 282 licenses had been provisionally assigned to 15 companies in the Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) auction in the 2GHz band. The auction of 105MHz of spectrum, 40MHz of which was exclusively for new entrants, generated almost C$4.3 billion (€2.7 billion), or more than four times what the government had expected.

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