You could almost smell the sh1t…
前几天刚说完,结果周一就看到了这篇东西 >_<!
T-Orange won’t share the airwaves
“Get your own damn spectrum, mooch”
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/23/t_orange_spectrum_again/
T-Mobile and Orange won’t be handing over any radio spectrum when they merge, despite the fact that T-Orange will own almost half the available airways.
The combined force will have licences to operate in 170MHz of radio spectrum, compared to Vodafone’s holding of 76MHz and Orange’s 66MHz, but the operating officers of both companies have told a conference that they see no reason why they should give up any of that holding to appease Ofcom, the UK’s regulator.
果然邪恶,俩公司说合并就这么拽,连Ofcom都不放在眼里。。。
It’s easy to imagine nothing happening prior to the merger, and then Ofcom (greatly slimmed down by a Conservative government) negotiating an agreement by which Vodafone and O2 get to keep their 900MHz allocations in exchange for not making a fuss about T-Orange’s holdings. And you can see 3 left shouting from the sidelines and increasingly dependent on the network-sharing agreement that was set up with T-Mobile before things got quite so strange. ®
Vodafone/O2 have been hanging onto their spectrum in the knowledge that a Conservative government next year will mean Ofcom getting knocked back and plans again thrown into chaos. By then, the EU mandate will require the government to allow the deployment of 3G into 900MHz (which must happen within six months of the Directive coming into force) and T-Orange and 3 will just have to suffer.
这么看的话,不止900mhz的拍卖会泡汤,1800mhz也不更会有什么动静了。。。
这次的政策改革只能说“生不逢时”,如果保守党一上台,Ofcom基本上就没法拿vodafone和O2开刀。T+O只能靠合并来应付,至于和记3G的前景似乎确实是越来越黑暗了。。。