To meet the growing demand for 4G mobile services, operators need more and more frequency … provided they can digest the huge sums paid for their allocation between the two auctions.
The bands 800 MHz and 2600 MHz is not so old that even the government intends to accelerate the provision of part of the 700 MHz initially attributed to audiovisual sector but must sell part in the mobile industry.
And if the actors had forecast an allocation towards the end of the decade to prepare the arrival of the 5G is that starting next year to start the process led by ARCEP, the telecom sector regulator.
The state hopes to draw at least 2 billion euros, in these difficult times but operators are reluctant to put their hands in their pockets so soon after the 3.5 billion required to use 4G bands.
With 800 MHz and 2600 MHz, operators have had your fill of frequencies for a while and do not necessarily need to harvest new immediately, except perhaps that Free Mobile deploys its 3G / 4G and had passed on the frequencies in the 800 MHz band.
But if the operators had agreed to pay expensive previous frequencies, it was because the second digital dividend was not expected before a dozen years. In the programming in 2015 while the previous auction dates only from 2012, the pill is hard to swallow.
Especially since operators are facing a decline in their turnover since the arrival of Free Mobile in 2012 and its aggressive pricing packages. And if these frequencies are interested to continue the deployment of 4G, it is not certain that they can put the price again so quickly.
Observers therefore also a worry disposal (even if it is in principle temporary) of state assets that could eventually does not report as expected , not to mention it will probably expect a variety of remedies, until that of the Constitutional Council, the newspaper reported Les Echos .
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