Arqiva’s 1.5m pound ($2.8m) bid won a 15-year license in the 412/422 MHz band. The company, which provides communications infrastructure for many of the public services and government organizations, said it would help its customers migrate from legacy analog private mobile radio systems to modern digital networks.
It said it is also prepared to resell spectrum and offer managed network service to third parties in a band-manager capacity. Arqiva said this type of spectrum is already congested in dense urban areas such as the center of London. It said it expects demand to rise with the increasing emphasis on public safety, and with the Olympics in 2012.
Motorola was not prepared to reveal how it would use the spectrum unless it won the license, but in the event its bid of 205,000 pounds ($382,631) was the second lowest.
