Originally Posted by Step666:
“Ofcom must've had a good reason to have allowed EE to re-farm the 1800MHz, a reason good enough to outweigh concerns over competitiveness.
So, whatever it was, I'd expect it to trump O2's tantrum in court.”
Not least the fact that O2 were largely given all their 2G frequencies very cheaply, whilst others paid billions for 3G frequencies, then they were allowed to re-use those 2G ones for free for 3G services. That disadvantaged others who paid billions for their blocks.
O2 were the first to ask to re-use spectrum already assigned for 1 technology for another and the first to use 900Mhz for 3G, O2 have 1800Mhz too, but haven't been working toward deploying 4G yet other than the trials.
Even with the 900Mhz their network is still the crappest 3G / data network, so they should concentrate on that before wasting money on lawyers. They are also responsible for delaying the 4G auction which made it worthwhile for EE to launch this interim solution and have such a market lead in terms of time ahead of the others.