Vodafone forces Three to drop an extra £13 million for its preferred 3.4 GHz spectrum

Ofcom has announced the final outcome of the UK 5G spectrum auction, following the assignment stage, and Three had to pay a premium to get exactly what it wanted.
This stage wasn’t a free-for-all, instead there were two distinct blocks of spectrum either side of Three’s UK Broadband legacy and it was somehow determined that only two operators could bid on each block. It was probably down to the size of each block: the lower one being 70 MHz wide and the higher one 80 MHz meaning Thre