Licensing UMTS in the United Kingdom

UK Plans - detail


UMTS licence term

 bullet.gif (1045 bytes)Considering licence terms in the range 15 to 25 years as a result of suggestions in response to Multimedia Communications on the Move

Number of UMTS licences

bullet.gif (1045 bytes) Currently we anticipate between three and five licences as a working hypothesis

Quantity of spectrum for each licence

bullet.gif (1045 bytes) We appreciate the complexity of this task and are working with our advisers and industry. There needs to be a balance between spectrum efficiency, the number of licences and the viability of the spectrum packages that are offered

May 1998

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