Ofcom has announced the license winners (and how much they pay) for the GSM Gaurd band spectrum. This allows licensees to offer low power GSM services (or other technology). If GSM is chosen there are 15 channels available each carrying 8 voice channels - so there's a reasonable ammount of flexibility in frequency plans and also if multiple licensees want to operate in the same area.
The winners are: -
British Telecommunications PLC £275,112
Cable & Wireless UK ( England) £51,002
COLT Mobile Telecommunications Ltd £1,513,218
Cyberpress Ltd £151,999
FMS Solutions Ltd £113,000
Mapesbury Communications Ltd £76,660
O2 (UK) Ltd £209,888
Opal Telecom Ltd £155,555
PLDT (UK) Ltd £88,889
Shyam Telecom UK Ltd £101,011
Spring Mobil AB £50,110
Teleware PLC £1,001,880
The price varies from £50,002 to over £1.5m and as licensees pay what they bid, some must be feeling sick right now - while others who bid just above the Ofcom minimum must be giggling to themselves.
There may well now be a flurry of license trading, but some novel new GSM type services could be offered for in-building/in-area use.
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