Posted: 28th Feb, 2003 By: MarkJ
Details of the governments forthcoming 3.4GHz broadband wireless license auction have been released ahead of the official announcement.
The auction itself now has a provisional starting date - May 26th 2003:
The government is expected to announce full details on Friday (today), but the Radiocommunications Agency (RA) published the information memorandum on its Web site on Thursday. A deadline to register interest for the 3.4GHz auction has been set at 14 April -- although this could change. The early date for this deadline is designed to help the government weed out unsuitable candidates.
The RA has revealed that the auction will run for two weeks, and that any licences that are left over after 6 June will still be available for at least another year.
Fifteen 3.4GHz licences are on offer -- seven covering metropolitan areas, seven covering rural areas, and one for Northern Ireland. This distribution has caused some controversy, especially in Wales where politicians and industry figures fought in vain for two Wales-only licences.In remains to be seen whether this latest round will do anything to improve upon the failure of previous auctions for similar spectrums. More @
ZDNet.