April 2013 : New research making use of DotEcon’s Spectrum Awards Database
Academics at Curtin University have made use of the data in DotEcon’s Spectrum Awards Database to examine a range of telecommunication market topics including market entry, network deployment, the flexibility of regulators and their their preferences for welfare-maximising allocation mechanisms, … Continue reading
March 2013 : Court of Appeal rejects Everything Everywhere appeal of CAT decision on MTRs
On 6 March 2013, the UK’s Court of Appeal (CoA) passed its judgment on Everything Everywhere’s (EE) appeal of the Competition Appeal Tribunal’s (CAT) ruling in relation to wholesale mobile termination rates (MTR). The CoA rejected EE’s grounds of appeal. … Continue reading
March 2013 : Ofcom announces final results of the UK 4G auction
On 1 March Ofcom announced the final results of the UK 4G spectrum auction. The final stage of the bidding process raised an additional £27,160,322 bringing to total revenue from the auction up to a total of £2,368,273,322. The aim … Continue reading
February 2013 : Ofcom announces winners of UK 4G auction
On 20 February Ofcom announced the winners of the UK 4G spectrum auction. The four existing UK mobile network operators (EE, H3G, O2 and Vodafone) as well as BT subsidiary Niche Spectrum Ventures all won spectrum, while new entrants MLL … Continue reading
December 2012 : Dutch Multiband Auction completed
The Dutch multiband spectrum auction successfully concluded on Friday 14th December 2012, raising €3.8bn. DotEcon advised Agentschap Telecom, the regulator overseeing the award process, on the design and implementation of the auction, which was run using DotEcon’s WebBidder auction platform. Licences were … Continue reading
November 2012 : DotEcon Perspectives, latest newsletter available now
Our Autumn 2012 issue is an auction bumper edition. We look at the lessons from the Danish 800MHz auction and the Swiss multi-band auction completed earlier this year, and take a critical look at some of the problems that arise when … Continue reading
November 2012 : Irish multi-band Auction completed
The Irish telecoms regulator, ComReg, has released the results of its multi-band auction. H3GI, Meteor, Telefonica and Vodafone won spectrum rights in the 800MHz, 900MHz and 1800MHz bands paying €854.64 million of which €481.7 million will be paid upfront and the … Continue reading
November 2012 : Ofcom proposes significant changes in BCMR
On 15 November 2012, Ofcom published a further consultation document in respect of its Business Connectivity Market Review (BCMR), in which it had considered competition in the provision of leased line services in the UK. Ofcom makes a number of … Continue reading
November 2012 : Ofcom finalises reserve prices for the 4G auction
On 12th November, the UK communications regulator Ofcom published the final regulations for the upcoming 4G auction. Ofcom’s statement sets out the details of the final auction rules including the reserve prices for the different spectrum blocks available in the … Continue reading
November 2012 : CAT publishes full judgement on Pay-TV appeals
On 26th October 2012, the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) published a non-confidential version of its full judgement with respect to the appeals brought against Ofcom’s decision to impose a wholesale must-offer (WMO) remedy on Sky. The WMO remedy required Sky … Continue reading