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Frequency block auctions have no negative impact for customers. [0]https://web.archive.org/web/20160613172732/http://blogs.z24.nl/boumans_blog/2012/12/hoge-opb

by jorvi 5y ago

Frequency block auctions have no negative impact for customers. [0]https://web.archive.org/web/20160613172732/http://blogs.z24.nl/boumans_blog/2012/12/hoge-opbrengst-4g-veiling-gaat-de-klant-er-voor-opdraaien.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160613172732/http://blogs.z24.... (Apologies for the Dutch source, Google Translate doesn't seem able to translate the entire page so you'll manually have to do it).

ncphil 5y ago
No. It does. It takes a public resource (spectrum) and privatizes it, and when coupled with light or no regulation leads to negative social and economic outcomes as the result of the usual race to the bottom of service levels with its attendant upward spiraling of rents to the consumer.