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U.K. Plans High-Band Spectrum Sale

The U.K.’s Office of Communications laid out its plan for making parts of the 26 and 40 GHz bands available for 5G through auctions. Ofcom said it will make a total of 6.25 GHz available “for mobile services globally, and…

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for 5G in Europe.” Ofcom said it's adopting assignment stage rules it proposed a year ago. “Having considered stakeholders’ comments, we have decided not to include a negotiation period in the assignment stage of the auction,” Ofcom said: “However, to facilitate post auction spectrum trading, we will enable bidders to start negotiating in the period immediately after notifying the assignment stage results to bidders and before the auction licenses have been granted.”