Hong Kong Brings Forward Wimax Spectrum Auction
Published January 5th, 2008
OFTA has brought forward the auction of licenses for Wimax and other high-speed wireless technologies to the fourth quarter of next year. Marion Lai, director-general of telecommunications at telecom regulator OFTA, said the government would auction spectrum in the 2.5-2.69GHz bands by the fourth quarter together with an auction of 2.3 GHz spectrum for Broadband Wireless Access Services, which already had been planned for Q4 2008. Operators are expected to launch services in 2009.
“We are technology-neutral so winners of the auction are able to make their own decision to choose the BWA technology they like to deploy,” Lai said.
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