Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Minor Update - ATT Wireless Internet - SOME Issues Solved Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:56:13 +0100 Lines: 14 Message-ID: References: <106515s$1qlv3$4@dont-email.me> <1067pq8$24u7g$6@dont-email.me> <1069u8t$6n2o$1@news1.tnib.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net mkJ3QVFBusQp/WWA4xMExgUZeMqqVYTohVbrkDBnEaVma6zZsh Cancel-Lock: sha1:G1OdwlbojmHyhSl++7GWd+WJ+JU= sha256:HPH6vo6E60tA89WKEsrSN8v7krA5MzQKZl5Trt60d3Y= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <1069u8t$6n2o$1@news1.tnib.de> Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70063 Marc Haber wrote: > In Germany, we have network companies bid for frequency ranges. The > company that pays the most gets the most frequencies with rather > careful coverage expectations. Result: Companies don't have enough > money to actually build the networks In the UK the auction process was engineered to maximize revenue from 3G spectrum, the mobile companies spent £22bn, by the time they'd built the networks, they were unprofitable for years, so the govt missed out on corporation tax ... When the 4G spectrum was auctioned over a decade later, it only raised 1/10th of the amount.