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Radio spectrum assignements for

broadband services

Gundega RutkaHead of Scarce Resource Division

Electronic Communications and Post Department

10th Baltic Electronic Communications and Postal Services Regulators’ Meeting

28 – 30 August 2013

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

2006 – four beauty contests for 450MHz, 900MHz, 390MHz, 40,5-43,5GHz )2007 – two beauty contests for 32GHz and 10.5GHz2008 – four beauty contests for 900MHz, 410-430MHz, 450MHz, 26GHz2009 – two beauty contests for 32GHz and 28GHz2010 – two auctions (3.6GHz, 900MHz)2011- two auctions (450MHz)2012 – two auctions (2.6GHz (FDD, TDD - unsold) and 2.3GHz)2013 – two auctions (2.6GHz (TDD), digital dividend)

Totally :“Beauty contests” – 4 year experience ( 12 beauty contests)“Auctions” - 4 year expierence (6 auctions)

SPRK expierence for tenders

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Auction Process

•Competition at the margin•Multi-round process

Simultaneous• All licences sold in one auction• Equality and transparency of process • Assist price discovery after each

roundOpen

•Efficiency (Auction is conducted via auction software)

•Competition•Easy rules and understandable for

each participant• Different prices paid will reflect

differences in values between licences under in auction

Conductive to truthful bidding

Simultenous Multi Round

Auction

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Policy Consulation

Policy Statement

and Consultation

on Draft Regulations

Approvement of Regulations, Announcement of Application Date (Auction

Start)

Auction starts

Getting to start of an SPRK auction

1 month 1 month 1 -2 months

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

ApplicationQualification

of Participants

Bidding Determination of Winners

Allocation of the

Rights of Use

The key stages of a typical SPRK auction

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Spectrum blocks2.6GHz

2.3GHz

800MHz (digital dividend)

Spectrum block, MHz

790-791 791-801 801-811 811-821 821-832 832-842 842-852 852-862

Bandwidth 1MHz 10MHz(Operator 1)

10MHz(Operator 2)

10MHz(Operator 3)

11 MHz 10MHz(Operator 1)

10MHz(Operator 2)

10MHz(Operator 3)

Use Guard band Downlink Duplex gap Uplink

Spectrum block, MHz

2300-2330 2330-2360 2360-2370

Bandwidth 30MHz(Operator 1)

30MHz(Operator 2)

10MHz(Operator X)

Use TDD Regional license

Spectrum block, MHz

2500-2520 2520-2540 2540-2560 2560-2570 2570-2620 2620-2640 2640-2660 2660-2680 2680-2690

Bandwidth 20MHz(Operator 1)

20MHz(Operator 2)

20MHz(Operator 3)

10MHz(Operator 4)

50MHz(Operator 5)

20MHz(Operator 1)

20MHz(Operator 2)

20MHz(Operator 3)

10MHz(Operator 4)

Use FDD uplink blocks TDD FDD downlink blocks

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Terms and conditions for participation

Participant:

- Local or foreign company;

- Companies with a decisive influence (direct and indirect) are not allowed participation in auction simultaneously;

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

1. Payment of the reserved price (at least 1 week before the auction starts);and2. Submission of auction registration application (till the auction starts):

2.1. foreign operators - a certificate from business register that the bidder is not in liquidation and that the merchant has not been declared insolvent, or the proposed remedy at law

2.2. foreign operators - registration certificate2.3. complete declaration of conformity2.4. warrant of power attorney2.5. the reserved price payment document2.6. certificate/document attesting that the participant has no tax

debt

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Determination of the reserve price includes consideration of such parameters:

1. Bandwidths for radio spectrum band/block (10MHz, 50MHz etc.)

2. Duration of rights of use for the specific radio spectrum band (10, 15 years etc.)

3. Territory of validity for rights of use (country wide or regionally)

4. Benchmarking of previous auctions’ reserve price

5. Benchmarking of theoretical coverage possibilities (2.3GHz cell radius is 1.8 times less than 900MHz or 1.87 time more than 3.8GHz etc.)

Principles of setting

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Source: http://www.cdg.org/news/events/CDMASeminar/09_CDMA450Seminar_Colombia/Presentations/2_CDG_CDMA450_Colombia%20April%202009%20v1%20English%20(2).pdf

Technical Assumptions

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Latvian expierence setting reserve price

Spectrum band Block size Price

2.6GHz

FDD 2X20MHz 200 000LVL(≈ 285 000EUR)

FDD 2X10MHz 100 000LVL(≈142 300EUR)

TDD 50MHz 200 000LVL(≈285 000EUR)

2.3GHz 30MHz 100 000LVL(≈142 300EUR)

800MHz 2X10MHz 320 000 LVL(≈455 300EUR)

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Aim : Constrain bidding & Affect incentives for strategic bidding

- Bidder in active round is allowed to place a bid only for one spectrum block- By making a bid on a spectrum block, the bidder commits to pay for it the

amount stated in the bid- The standing highest bid for a frequency block is the bid that has the

highest value- Bidder must be active in each round (place a bid- the standing highest bid

& increment (10% of the reserve price))- Bidder with the highest offer in the next round is not allowed to place a bid

for other spectrum block (except if there are 2 or more such bidders)- SPRK announces the auction concluded after a bidding round where no

bidders have placed new bids on any frequency blocks

Rules

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

•Collusion - No direct/ indirect information exchange between candidates/bidders with regard to the auction - No announcement of bidding strategy and/ or concrete bids - No influence of the participation or the bidding behaviour of third parties •Denial of admission to and exclusion from the auction - Collusion - Breach of the auction rule - False information in the application - Non-fulfilment of the participation criteria

Statutory violation and consequences

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Requirements

Spectrum band

Obligations

2.6GHz Till 01.01.2018. electronic communications service availability to at least 55% population

2.6GHz (TDD) Till 01.01.2018. installation and exploitation of at least 20 base stations in 20 different administrative areas

2.3GHz Till 01.01.2016. installation of and exploitation of base stations in at least 10 administrative areas

800MHz Till 01.07.2018. installation and exploitation of at least one base station on each 200km2, except republican cities.

1) In technologically neutral manner2) Allowing transfer to those operators who are not the winners3) Allowing to withdraw rights of use without any compensation in case non- fulfillment of obligation criteria

Rights of use are allocated:

Overview Terms & Conditions for Participation

Reserve Price

Activity Rules

Spectrum blocks

Coverage Requirements, supervision

Violation of Auction Rules

and their Consequences

Questions

Questions?