Europe's Consumers Could Lose in Auctions of Internet Spectrum
New York Times, March 13, 2011
By Kevin J. O'Brien
In Europe, the digital dividend may not pay off as well as it should. Across the Continent, the sale and redeployment of lucrative television broadcast frequencies for high-speed mobile Internet service has so far done little to increase competition, instead reinforcing the position of existing market leaders. Consumers appear to be in danger of losing out because the largest operators are using their superior financial and political clout to shut newcomers out of the bidding process and out of the mobile market, advocates said.
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