{"id":1633,"date":"2012-09-11T07:53:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T06:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/?p=1633"},"modified":"2012-09-11T07:53:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T06:53:44","slug":"uk-mobile-operators-temporarily-halt-legal-threats-to-ofcoms-4g-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/09\/uk-mobile-operators-temporarily-halt-legal-threats-to-ofcoms-4g-auction.html","title":{"rendered":"UK Mobile Operators Temporarily Halt Legal Threats to Ofcoms 4G Auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> have agreed, under direct pressure from the government, to <strong>stall any legal challenges<\/strong> that could have resulted in further delays to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s auction of the superfast &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a>&#8221; mobile broadband compatible <strong>800MHz<\/strong> and <strong>2.6GHz<\/strong> bands.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The situation erupted again last month after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a> approved a request by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> to re-purpose its <strong>1800MHz<\/strong> spectrum for use by LTE technology, which would have allowed the operator to <strong>launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> services before the end of 2012<\/strong> and roughly one year ahead of their closest rivals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/ofcom-shuns-concern-and-allows-orange-uk-and-t-mobile-to-launch-4g-in-2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> was able to placate some of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a>&#8217;s concerns by agreeing to sell them a slice of its 1800MHz radio spectrum (note: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/threeuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Three UK<\/a> isn&#8217;t able to use this until late 2013). Meanwhile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/o2uk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">O2<\/a> UK (Telefonica) gave notice of its plan to lodge a challenge against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/ofcom\" target=\"_blank\">Ofcom<\/a>&#8217;s decision at the <strong>Competition Appeals Tribunal<\/strong> (CAT) and warned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/eebroadband\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">EE<\/a> not to launch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/link\/4g\">4G<\/a> in 2012.. or else (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/2012\/08\/o2-uk-will-ask-competition-tribunal-to-halt-early-4g-release-on-1800mhz.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>In response EE warned that any litigation against Ofcom&#8217;s decision would result in the operator needing to review its current position of support for the auction process. On top of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/index.php\/go\/vodafoneuk\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Vodafone<\/a> claimed that Ofcom was showing a &#8220;<em>careless disregard for the best interests of consumers, businesses and the wider economy through its refusal to properly regard the competitive distortion created<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>An article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/d04811c0-fb5e-11e1-87ae-00144feabdc0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Financial Times<\/a> now suggests that the UK government managed to step in last week and hold a semi-successful meeting of bosses from all of the main mobile operators, which resulted in everybody agreeing to <strong>delay legal challenges<\/strong> for a &#8220;<em>cooling-off period<\/em>&#8221; (roughly one month or more) while a &#8220;<em>collective way forward<\/em>&#8221; is debated. During this time EE has agreed not to roll-out its new 4G service over 1800MHz, although that&#8217;s unlikely to prevent their soft launch of related services from occurring later today.<\/p>\n<p>Last year saw the UK government&#8217;s former Culture Secretary, <strong>Jeremy Hunt MP<\/strong>, warn that, \u201c<em>Mobile phone operators must put aside competitive differences and work together in their common \u2013 and our national \u2013 interest to make [the 4G auction process] happen<\/em>\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ispreview.co.uk\/story\/2011\/09\/14\/uk-government-warns-mobile-broadband-operators-to-avoid-4g-legal-battles.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>); as usual the government stopped short of threatening any <strong>legislative intervention<\/strong>. Asking mobile operators to \u201c<em>put aside<\/em>\u201d their \u201c<em>competitive differences<\/em>&#8221; is always going to be quite a difficult task, especially in a competitive market where private companies are expected to do the exact opposite.<\/p>\n<p>The question now will be whether or not the industry can agree a common solution. A similar situation two years ago ended with little progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything Everywhere (Orange UK and T-Mobile), O2, Vodafone and Three UK have agreed, under direct pressure from the government, to stall any legal challenges that could have resulted in further delays to Ofcom&#8217;s auction of the superfast &#8220;4G&#8221; mobile broadband compatible 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,60,32,72,91,63,96],"class_list":["post-1633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uk_isp_news","tag-4g","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-o2","tag-orange-uk","tag-t-mobile","tag-three-uk","tag-vodafone"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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