T-Mobile offers on 29 and 30 april, two frequency bands available to the government, at the request of the Agency Telecom. The 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz bands during the inauguration used for mobile video links.
The frequencies will be during the inhuldigingsplechtigheid on 30 april in Amsterdam are used by the news media, for example, for the transmission of images and audio tracks. There are a lot of news media expected during the inauguration, which there is otherwise too little spectrum would be free.
According to spokesman Eric Dekker from T-Mobile requested the Agency Telecom provider to the frequencies available. Spokesman Frans van Bergen of the Agency confirms that. “It is not an obligation, T-Mobile was willing to work,” says Van Bergen. T-Mobile managed to get the frequencies in the 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum during the penultimate frequentieveiling. The origin of German telco is the only provider that frequencies lend during the inauguration.
The Agency Telecom is expected on april 30, a lot of hustle and bustle in the air: not only because of the many news media who report on the inauguration, but also, for example, by the use of walkie-talkies. Therefore the spectrum on april 30, otherwise to be divided than normal. “We seek the spectrum as efficiently as possible, to divide”, says Van Bergen. Also on the mobile networks, there is a lot of hustle and bustle expected; the providers are working together to increase capacity. So the providers in Amsterdam together additional cell towers.