As all draft decision have to be communicated to both the Commission and the other NRAs, the Commission is likely to become a bottleneck. Management of radio spectrum. The Commission should not promote auctioning and should on the contrary take a clear position against any form of auctioning. Auctions will constitute a de facto taxation leading to harming the investments of operators, availability of services, creation of new innovative services and higher end-user prices, which have an adverse impact on development of mobile markets. Moreover auctioning tend to raise the licensing fees so high that the largest and wealthiest companies have a clear advantage over smaller more innovative companies.
Auctions are clearly a barrier to entry for new and small innovative players on the mobile market.
Telenet is therefore in favour of using a beauty contest instead of auctions. How should we interpret the paragraph on vertically-integrated entity in the light of the essential facility doctrine as defined in the Bronner case. All those technologies are generally at the beginning of their development and have a high potential for substituting cable in future. Both in analogue and digital cable TV, the capacities are limited due to the limited number of available channels and the permanent usage of the channels for program offerings. Moreover the cable operator does not dominate the value chain.