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A comment on The Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licenses (2002) [pdf].

Re:The Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licenses (2002) [pdf] by dx034 on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:09AM (#12441786)
Very misleading title, especially for a scientific paper. While it was the biggest auction up to that date, a similar auction in Germany just a few months later had a significantly higher revenue, nearly twice as much as the British auction. [0] The paper was published in 2002, so the title was already incorrect when it was published.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_auction#Germany

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Re:The Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licenses (2002) [pdf] by neals on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:10AM (#12442293)
And after that, hopes for a big auction at your friendly neighborhood the Netherlands where high! Expecting similar numbers, the action became a big flop with just under 2.5bil euro's.
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Re:The Sale of the British 3G Telecom Licenses (2002) [pdf] by imarg on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:04AM (#12442603)
The paper acknowledges this right there in the first page (footnote 2).

"The German telecom auction subsequently raised even more in cash terms (although less per head of population) ..."

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