No LTE in Jordan – carriers tell government to suck it up

Governments have used “frequency auctions” to fix up their leaking budgets at the expense of the wireless market for quite some time. So far, carriers usually decided to just “suck it up” and charge their customers more – but what if no one would show up to bid?

This seems to have happened in Jordan, as Mobile Business Briefing reports the following:

Jordan’s Telecommunications Regulatory Commission has announced that it did not receive any applications for 2.5 GHZ band licences by the 27 June deadline,

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As of this writing, not much further information is available. However, I can but hope that the carriers coordinated this and keep their firm stance…

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