Switzerland’s Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) has announced today that it will run an auction next year for mobile radio frequencies.
It has commissioned Ofcom, the Swiss telecoms regulator, to tender both mobile radio frequencies that are…
Switzerland’s Federal Communications Commission (ComCom) has announced today that it will run an auction next year for mobile radio frequencies.
It has commissioned Ofcom, the Swiss telecoms regulator, to tender both mobile radio frequencies that are currently free and those that will become free in the near future.
The GMS and UMTS spectrum licences are due to expire in 2013 and 2016 respectively.
Moreover, ComCom announced that Switzerland is set to join Germany in tendering the so-called “digital dividend” 800Mhz range frequencies.
The new licences will be valid until 2028.
The auction will take place online during the first half of 2011, with the licences being issued afterwards.
The auction will be open to Switzerland’s existing mobile licensees (Orange, Sunrise, Swisscom and In & Phone), as well as to new entrants.
A ComCom statement said that it wanted to create an “optimal, future-proof assignment of frequencies” that would be in the interests of competition.
It also said: “It is the intention that consumers in Switzerland will continue to benefit in the future from high-quality and low-cost mobile telephony products.”
