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To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8715)	4/17/2000 9:30:00 PM
From: A.J. Mullen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Dennis, that article neglects to mention that the UK is demanding 50% of the bid on completion of the auction. This, and a more onerus bankrupcy law, is likely to avoid a repeat of the Nextwave scenario. The auction rules are constructed to ensure different ownership of the licenses, so competition will supposedly lessen the need for regulation. I have a question technical wrt to the British auction. Are not the bandwidths already defined? WCDMA requires more bandwith than CDMA 1, etc. Are the bandwidths tailored for WCDMA, in which case CDMA will leave some unused. Or is there where HDR comes in? Does it use the remaining bandwidth? Have I answered my own question? Was HDR developped specifically to use bandwidth that would otherwise go unused where spectrum was allocated to fit WCDMA? If so, it would be a wonderful irony.

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8715)	4/19/2000 8:41:00 PM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

Telekom bullish over U.K. 3G license totaltele.com By Kirstin Ridley, Reuters 19 April 2000 Telecoms heavyweight Deutsche Telekom AG vowed on Wednesday that it would win a British next generation cellphone licence but called on Brussels regulators to ensure an orderly award of airwaves across the continent. Chief Executive Ron Sommer told Reuters on the fringes of a Bonn news conference that Deutsche Telekom had talked "in general" to Brussels about broadband UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) licences, as he urged the industry and regulators to "wake up". "I think it's important for everyone to wake up and ask the proper questions and hopefully find an answer," he said, adding that further discussions with European reglators and individual governments were urgently needed. "Are we on the right track to give away licences in Spain and (yet) ask for tremendous amounts of money through bidding in the UK - and what does it mean for the future competitiveness of Europe in the information age?" he asked. While Spain has held a so-called "beauty contest" to award UMTS licences, that will allow mobile phones to offer services such as high speed Internet access and video conferencing on the move, Britain is holding a high stakes auction. Bids in Britain for five licences on Wednesday rose to almost 22 billion pounds - over four times analyst forecasts - as companies scrambled to win fresh spectrum and position themselves for a third generation of mobile services. Sommer said he was "obviously concerned" about the licence awards as One2One, the British cellphone group owned by Deutsche Telekom, bid a hefty 3.9 billion pounds for a licence. "There is no question that we will get a licence in the UK for One2One," Sommer said. "But we are also talking about tremendous amounts of cash that we are investing...and the question for the British government to ask is 'is this the right way to prepare Europe for the most important industry of the 21st Century?' "And shouldn't this gigantic amount of money be rather going into developing applications in the market for UMTS?"

To: Dennis Roth who wrote (8715)	4/21/2000 11:36:00 AM
From: Dennis Roth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13582

MobilCom prepared to pay up 11-12 billion euros o win one of the five German UMTS licences. asia.dailynews.yahoo.com BERLIN, April 20 (AFP) - MobilCom, the third-biggest independent telephone company in Germany, is confident of winning one of the licences for the new generation of mobile phones up for auction in the summer, the group's chairman Gerhard Schmid said on Thursday. Together with its "strong" partner, France Telecom, MobilCom was "well-equipped" to win one of the five German UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) licences on offer. And the two would be prepared to put up 11-12 billion euros (10.6-11.5 billion dollars) to pay for a licence, Schmid said in an interview on German public television, ZDF. A report to be published in next week's edition of the newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, said that the German government expected to net around 25 billion euros from the sale of the licences. France Telecom recently acquired a 28.5-percent stake in MobilCom, establishing a long-sought foothold in the German telecom market. France Telecom and MobilCom set up a joint venture, MobilCom Multimedia, especially to bid for the UMTS licence. If MobilCom Multimedia's bid is successful, MobilCom will become sole owner of the new company, in return for which France Telecom will receive 18.6 million MobilCom shares.