German carriers paid more than 700 € per resident (including non-users like children and elderly) during multiple spectrum auctions in the last 16 years just fo

German carriers paid more than 700 € per resident (including non-users like children and elderly) during multiple spectrum auctions in the last 16 years just for the right to transmit mobile internet over the air – much more than in most other places (US carriers paid less than half per resident as far as I know, Austrian less than a fifth). That money has to be earned somewhere.