EE, O2, Vodafone, and Three each won a portion of the offering

The launch was due to take part this month

Hitting the 95 per cent coverage target could boost UK GDP by £75 billion

Regulator’s CTO has called for ‘innovative solutions’ to reach target A senior Ofcom officer has said its current spectrum auction will not be sufficient on its own for the UK to reach 95 per cent geographical mobile coverage. Speaking to the Scottish Parliament’s Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee, the telecoms regulator’s CTO Mansoor Hanif told

Vodafone spent the most on 5G earmarked spectrum while O2 spent the most in total for 4G and 5G bands

The auction is expected to take several weeks with two smaller players competing alongside all four MNOs

Airspan Spectrum Holdings and Connexin will join the four major UK operators in the auctions room

Spectrum auction is expected to be held around April 

Three CEO Dave Dyson has hit out at the absence of a 30 per cent spectrum cap in the upcoming auction, claiming it will have a detrimental effect on the UK’s ability to be a 5G ‘world leader.’ On July 11, Ofcom began the first stages of the auction, which it confirmed will happen later

The latest auction will cap the maximum amount of spectrum any one operator can hold at 37 per cent

Dyson criticised the regulator for its decision not to cap the amount of spectrum operators can hold at 30 per cent

Ofcom director of strategy Clive Carter outlined the strategy during a conference discussing telecom regulation

O2 said beginning the auction before a decision is made over its £10.25 billion sale to Hutchison is made could harm competition and increase costs

Spectrum has been freed up by Ministry of Defence and regulator says there will be no cap on amount of spectrum bidders can buy