{"id":5915,"date":"2017-04-12T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2017-04-12T09:37:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T23:37:34","slug":"tpg-vodafone-buy-the-last-of-australias-available-4g-spectrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/tpg-vodafone-buy-the-last-of-australias-available-4g-spectrum\/","title":{"rendered":"TPG &#038; Vodafone buy the last of Australia&#8217;s available 4G spectrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5916\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/27130918\/TPG_Telecom_logo.svg_-1.png\" alt=\"TPG\" width=\"1280\" height=\"497\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last year the Federal Government announced it would be auctioning off two 15 MHz lots of the 700 MHz spectrum, used to provide 4G mobile broadband. Today, the w<br \/>\ninning bids for the auction have been announced, with TPG and Vodafone snapping it up.<\/p>\n<p>TPG picked up two lots of 10 MHz for $1,260,161,000 (that&#8217;s $2.75\/MHz\/pop) and Vodafone bought two lots of five MHz for $285,907,000 (at the reserve price of $1.25\/MHz\/pop).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Welcome to the wireless game TPG.<\/p>\n<p>On another note it&#8217;s good to see Voda stay true to their promise. The new spectrum purchase should, in a large way, help improve their current network reliability and congestion.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gizmodo.com.au\/2017\/04\/tpg-and-vodafone-just-bought-the-last-of-the-700mhz-spectrum-for-1-5-billion\/\">TPG And Vodafone Just Bought The Last Of The 700MHz Spectrum For $1.5 Billion | Gizmodo Australia<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year the Federal Government announced it would be auctioning off two 15 MHz lots of the 700&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}