It's been couple of months since Ofcom announced 700 MHz and 3.6-3.8 GHz 5G spectrum auctions results here. Part of C-band spectrum was auctioned back in 2018 and the results from Ofcom for the award of 2.3 and 3.4 GHz spectrum auctions is available here.
Results of Ofcom spectrum auction released today: pre-trade C-Band layout unpalatable but Vodafone and O2 already agreed a swap to enable 80MHz contiguous for O2 with Vodafone's two blocks being relatively close. Expect further trades in time... https://t.co/rkBpq51dxp pic.twitter.com/HlVhmOR4Tp
— Peter Clarke (@PedroClarke1) April 27, 2021
TMN detailed the spectrum trade between O2 and Vodafone that resulted in Vodafone exchanging their new C-band spectrum with the old one from O2. This allowed O2 to gain 80 MHz of contiguous spectrum but it has its own challenges as highlighted in the Tweet.
O2 UK trading C-Band to gain 80MHz contiguous at 3720-3800MHz will not be without challenge for their deployment team; much of the existing 5G deployment is not capable of running at such frequencies. https://t.co/eWqU7Ln3ny pic.twitter.com/WYOrT1730r
— Peter Clarke (@PedroClarke1) April 27, 2021
It took EE 2 minutes after the results were announced to switch on their 700 MHz site.
and using Nokia's fantastic platform. To give the details we got the license at 07:14 and we were live at 07:16 epic job in our Service Platforms team and our fantastic partner @nokia
— Neil J. McRae (@neilmcrae) April 27, 2021
More spectrum trades can be expected as TMN reports as it would make sense for the remaining three operators (except Telefonica O2) to obtain contiguous spectrum.
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