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Responding to the Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz consultation

Ofcom invites written comments on the questions raised in this consultation, to be submitted to Ofcom by 5pm on 9 March 2007. Ofcom strongly prefers to receive responses in electronic format. This web form will allow you to indicate your data protection preferences and send your views to the team responsible for this consultation.

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Consultation: Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz

To (Ofcom contact): Brice Le Cannu

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Question 1: Do you agree with these proposals for the awards of the three bands or have any other comments on the contents of this document?
Question 2: Do you agree with the analysis in section 5 or have any comments on adjacent interference issues?
Question 3: Do you agree that Ofcom should authorise use of the spectrum bands 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz?
Question 4: Do you agree that awarding licences by auction would be the appropriate mechanism for authorising use of the spectrum bands 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz?
Question 5: Do you agree that it is likely to be in the interests of citizens and consumers to proceed with the award of the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands as soon as practicable, rather than to delay the award pending reduction in uncertainty relating to other bands?
Question 6: Do you agree Ofcom should aim to award the bands 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2302 MHz by the end of 2007, while keeping the position on the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands under review in the light of possible developments in European regulatory fora?
Question 7: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals for licence conditions (technology neutrality, tradability, conditions of tenure and absence of roll-out obligations)?
Question 8: Do you have views on whether or not there should be a “safeguard” cap on the amount of spectrum that any one bidder could win in an award for the 2.6 GHz bands and, if so, do you have a view on whether 90 MHz would be an appropriate size for a safeguard cap?
Question 9: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposal to package spectrum as lots of 2 x 5 MHz for paired use and 5 MHz lots for unpaired spectrum and to allow the aggregation of lots by bidders?
Question 10: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposed approach to allowing the respective amounts of paired to unpaired spectrum for the band 2500-2690 MHz to be varied (maintaining the 120 MHz duplex spacing and allowing additional unpaired spectrum, if needed, at the top end of the band)?
Question 11: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals for a 5 MHz restricted block between FDD and TDD neighbours and between TDD and TDD neighbours and with a modified out-of-band base station mask for second adjacent 5 MHz blocks?
Question 12: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals to award the 2010 MHz band as a single 15 MHz lot?
Question 13: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals to award the 2290 MHz band as a single 10 MHz lot?
Question 14: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals to combine the award of the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands and to hold the award of the 2290 MHz band separately and in advance?
Question 15: Do you agree with Ofcom’s proposals for a two-stage auction design for the 2.6 GHz and 2010 MHz bands?
Question 16: Do you agree with Ofcom proposals to award the 2290 MHz band through a second price sealed bid auction?
Question 17: Do you have a preference for either of the two approaches to specifying technical licence conditions?
Question 18: Do you have any comments on the transmitter spectrum masks defined below?
Question 19: Do you have any comments on the SUR parameters defined below?
Question 20: Do you have any comments on the SUR methodology and assumptions detailed in this annex?
Question 21: Do you have any comments on the use of the Visualyse tool as described, on the assumptions or the propagation model proposed in this annex?
Question 22: Do you have any comments on the assumptions detailed in this annex?
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Responding to the Award of available spectrum: 2500-2690 MHz, 2010-2025 MHz and 2290-2300 MHz consultation

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