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Europe lags behind the rest of the world for advanced mobile services - a matter not helped by the failure to accelerate the licensing of spectrum 4G

Still no confirmed date for 4G spectrum auctions in the UK. This market is now officially behind in the European telecommunications industry.

is a position all the more devastating by the fact that the whole of Europe is itself a long way behind the rest of the world when it comes to advanced mobile services.

delivery of LTE - 4G - services is complex. It requires specific frequency, which is probably one of the most precious to us.

that the spectrum is owned by governments, and have complete control over when, how and for whom the use of licensed spectrum.

disjoint governments across Europe have failed in the coordination of spectrum licenses. The effect is a kind of infanticide in Europe.

The continent that was once a world leader in the mobile industry is now years behind the U.S., Japan and South Korea. Opportunity, innovation and employment have been suppressed by governments and regulators.

most advanced in Europe, LTE subscribers can claim tens of thousands. NTT DoCoMo in Japan, at last count, just under 500,000. This puts them in second place behind Verizon Wireless in the United States, which boasts millions of happy customers and a phenomenal growth rate.

These countries are also ahead, because all parties - operators, regulators and governments - are taking advantage of scale and consistency to be a leader in mobile telephony. Not all countries can be a leader, but also for Europe to lose the leadership for many years in such a short space of time is remarkable.

In 1991, European countries have worked together to launch GSM - a mobile standard still used every day throughout the world. This is the basis for the mobile industry, we have now.

The unified, standardized, coordinated adopted in Europe has allowed the rapid development of industry, caused by the scale and a clear center of gravity.

European operators invest much slower in the LTE and with little coordination, as there is no consensus, there is no common unit and a common goal in Europe to develop networks between them. Europe can not compete with the United States, but only if countries act together to bring the scale and harmonizing vital - both spectrum and action - to take

Only a handful of countries have commercial LTE in Europe - including Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, Germany and Poland. How a few operators in these markets, some, with its subscriber base combined with relatively low to compete with Verizon and NTT DoCoMo

spectrum auctions are perfectly Europe's problem in the industry. All governments and regulators see today is auctioning short-term gain financial spectrum, rather than long-term economic progress. Licensing spectrum is not coordinated and focused exclusively on the money as much as possible. But that is money in the industry, which means less to invest in infrastructure and services.

The reality is that operators will exercise all its considerable powers to ensure that the spectrum auction is happening exactly as you want, whenever you want. No operator can afford not to get the spectrum they need, however, there is barely enough for the four operators in the UK.
But there is more to invest in mobile technologies that offer higher speeds than the network or have the ability to manage mobile data.