Waiter! This spectrum's no good!

Posted By Martyn Warwick , 04 August 2009 | 0 Comments | 0 people rated this an average of 3/5

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The incumbent Dutch telco KPN is sending back some of its slightly-soiled bandwidth allocation to the government of the Netherlands. It's requested that the Ministry of Economic Affairs take back ownership of and responsibility for the licensed spectrum in the DCS 1800 and UMTS frequencies that its subsidiary Telfort won back in 1998 and 2000, reports Martyn Warwick.

KPN's fit of pique is its response to its loss of a recent court case. A couple of weeks ago the Dutch agency in charge of spectrum allocation, the Agentschap Telecom (AT), emerged as the victor after prolonged litigation brought by the country's erstwhile state monopoly telecoms provider against a €5 million fine imposed on the carrier for failing to comply with the service roll-out obligations as required by the terms of Telfort's spectrum licenses.

The Rotterdam Court of Justice ruled in favour of the AT and told KPN that it was getting away lightly.

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Waiter! This spectrum's no good!

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