A majority of the Second Room that there is more frequentieruimte is made available for new providers. There would be more newcomers have come because of the recent abonnementswijzigingen with existing providers.
Three parties are therefore in a debate with the responsible minister, notifies Nu.nl. “All providers do the same and so we have the newcomers extra space”, says PVV Mp Jhim van Bemmel. The three parties, PVV, D66 and PvdA want to therefore in september by minister Verhagen in debate about more frequentieruimte on upcoming auctions.
The next few years, virtually all current and many new frequencies for mobile internet under the hammer. Thus, the current gsm – and umts-frequencies and are the old frequencies for analog tv will be auctioned. At this moment there are two blocks of 10MHz allocated for new entrants, but that would, according to critics, little to several new entrants in the telecom market of sufficient frequentieruimte.
In a previous frequentieveiling, of the 2.6 GHz frequencies, it was at the urging of the Second Room already made space for new entrants. It won Tele2 and the combination of UPC/Ziggo frequentieruimte. With this 2.6 GHz frequencies to begin providers as yet little, because there is no hardware that works on those frequencies and they are not suitable for a nationwide network in the end.
At this moment, the Netherlands has three providers with a private network: KPN, Vodafone and T-Mobile. All three announced this summer, the price changes on which they all lower data limits of handling for mobile internet. KPN and Vodafone, however large consumers pay more, while T-Mobile prices equal loved.