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Do you consider the cost of frequency bands a part of infrastructure costs, or is that separate? https://www.dw.com/en/fnord/a-49168657 https://www.dw.com/en/f
by Arnt 6y ago
Do you consider the cost of frequency bands a part of infrastructure costs, or is that separate?
https://www.dw.com/en/fnord/a-49168657 https://www.dw.com/en/fnord/a-49168657 was the top hit just now when I searched for 5G auctions. I've no idea how much telcos pay in other countries, but the top six hits for my search were all about Germany, which at least doesn't suggest that Finland is raking in record sums from its auctions.
- rsynnott 6y agoIt's probably not a big factor. If we look at last time round, Ireland, a country of 5 million people, got 450 million in the LTE spectrum auction. Germany, a country of 83 million people, got 5.1 billion. So per capita the Irish spectrum was almost twice as expensive as the German spectrum, and yet mobile data is generally cheaper in Ireland (despite lower density, generally higher labour costs, and other factors that would lead you to expect it would be more expensive in Ireland if cost of data was actually determined by input costs). When it comes to it, 6.5bn _sounds_ like a lot, but it's only 78 euro per capita, and that's buying the telcos permanent assets which will be useful for decades to come.