Ofcom will start a new auction of third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum when it lays out its plans for the eagerly awaited sale this week. But the Treasury is thought likely to raise only about a tenth of the £23 billion in licence fees that it raked in the first time.
Companies including BT and the main mobile operators are preparing to return to the auction table as proposals for the use of the prime spectrum and details of how it will be sold will be laid out in a consultation paper. The telecommunications regulator, which has retained DotEcon and Analysys as consultants on the auction, will explain how it believes the band should be released to the market and how it should be used.

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