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Meanwhile, in the late 00s,federal agencies were selling their emergency spectrum allocations to the highest bidder (and apparently still are as of 2021) https

• blitzar 4y ago
  The Biggest Auction Ever: The Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licences https://www.jstor.org/stable/798361 https://www.jstor.org/stable/798361 What a time to be alive the early 00's were - where the possibilities of 3G was endless along with the profits. £22 billion for 3G on a tiny island was real money in 2000, and a lot more than the £2.3 billion or so they managed in 2014 for 4G and £1.3 billion in 2018 for 5G