According to foreign media reports, after 3 days of bidding, the French 5G spectrum auction ended on Thursday, local time, and the final price of each segment was fixed at 126 million euros .
Judging from the information published on the official website of Arcep, the French regulatory agency for electronic communications, postal and printed media, a total of 17 rounds of auctions have been conducted for 5G spectrum in France, and the final price per segment was 126 million euros.
The French 5G spectrum auction was launched on Tuesday, local time, and the auction was currently unused spectrum between 3.4-3.8GHz. There were 11 sections of 10MHz each. It is planned to be used for launching 5G commercial networks in some French cities before the end of the year.
A total of 4 telecom operators participated in the auction of 5G spectrum in France, namely Bouygues Telecom, Free Mobile, Orange and SFR. On the day of the auction, they conducted 4 rounds of auctions, and the price of each segment reached 85 million euros; the following day There were 8 rounds of auctions, and the price of each spectrum was increased to 111 million euros.
Among the 4 telecom operators participating in the auction, Bouygues Telecom originally planned to obtain 3 segments of 5G spectrum, Free Mobile hopes to obtain two segments, Orange hopes to obtain 5 segments, SFR hopes to obtain 3 segments, and a total of 13 segments are expected to be obtained. The amount of 5G spectrum auctioned.
In the end, Bouygues Telecom and Orange obtained 2 and 4 bands of 5G spectrum resources respectively, which was a period less than what they expected. Free Mobile and SFR got 2 and 3 bands respectively, the same amount as they planned.
The 5G spectrum auction price is fixed at 126 million euros per segment, which means that France has received 1.386 billion euros in revenue through the 5G spectrum auction. In addition to the 50MHz spectrum allocated to four operators at a fixed price of 350 million euros, France finally obtained 2.786 billion yuan in revenue through 310MHz 5G spectrum.
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