From the Gauardian:

"3 the newest and smallest mobile network in the UK with a 10% market share, wants to persuade Ofcom to redraft the 4G auction rules, because it feels they do not do enough to ensure its survival.

It had been thought that 3 needed the spectrum auction to happen quickly because its network was running out of capacity.

But its UK chief executive, David Dyson, will tell a conference in London on Tuesday that this is no longer the case.

He will announce he has bought enough time to go to court, through new plans to double the capacity of his network with a technology upgrade.

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3, which was loss-making until last year but has a rich backer in the Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka Shing, believes it will be outbid on 800MHz, and would like the watchdog to reserve some of it specifically for a fourth player. Without the lower frequency spectrum, 3 argues, its business will not be viable."

Full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...ion-4g-auction