TELECOMPLUS | THE UTILITY WAREHOUSE

SIX years after the frenzied bidding for licences to operate 3G mobile phone services, Britain’s telecoms companies will return to the auction table this week. Companies such as BT and Cable & Wireless will take on mobile operators including O2 in a spectrum auction that could raise millions of pounds for the Treasury.

It will also begin a series of spectrum sell-offs by the telecoms watchdog of a total of more than 400 megahertz of prime spectrum.
The sell-offs — more than 12 are pencilled in for between now and 2010 — could raise tens or even hundreds of billions of pounds for the Chancellor’s coffers.
The auctions could also lead to the introduction of exciting new technologies, from high-speed mobile broadband to mobile television.
The “starter” auction, on Thursday, is for the spectrum band 1781.7-1785MHz paired with 1876.7-1880MHz. It is ideally used for “low-power” or short-range mobile services. It could be used to set up special mobile networks on university campuses, for example, or within office buildings or shopping centres.


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