Sentence examples for mobile phone auction from inspiring English sources

Then the 4G mobile phone auction raised another £22bn.

As the Institute for Fiscal Studies has said, most of the Chancellor's extra revenues (leaving aside the mobile phone auction) have flowed from higher indirect taxes as a result of economic growth (helped, until recently, by the fuel tax 'escalator').

Having seen the success of Britain's mobile-phone auction, other governments Germany, France and Italy in particular are expected to reap even more money from the sale of their licences.

Hutchison made headlines last year with its aggressive bidding in Europe's mobile-phone auctions.

Combined with a £22bn of mobile phone spectrum auction receipts, three years of hefty surpluses around the turn of the millennium pushed the national debt down to around £310bn, or just 31% of national income.

Regulators have again postponed the date of the multibillion pound 4G mobile phone spectrum auction, with the sell-off now due at the end of 2012, in a move which could delay the creation of the high-quality mobile internet services needed to keep up with the explosion in smartphone use.

The institute also pointed out that this year's predicted fall in the deficit - how much the government has to borrow this year due to its overspending - from last year's level has only been made possible by the OBR assuming that government departments would underspend their budgets by £7.5bn, in addition to banking the proceeds of the 4G mobile phone spectrum auction that has not yet taken place.

Cash, though, presents its own problems for European acquirers, beyond its scarcity following the mobile phone license auctions earlier in the year.

"For the hundreds of millions of Americans with mobile phones, the auction will be critical to preventing dropped calls, degraded service and rising prices as demand for mobile broadband — and the wireless spectrum it requires — continues to increase exponentially," the F.C.C. said in a statement.

Several months ago, after one of his first sessions of chemotherapy, he stepped out of the hospital to take part by mobile phone in the auction of "Bel Canto" by Ann Patchett.

Like its rivals, Marconi has been caught in the downdraft as phone operators, deeply in debt from buying new digital mobile phone licenses at auction, have scaled back plans to build the new networks, which are years away from making profits.