The Austrian higher administrative court will decide over the validity of the government's annual auction for mobile frequencies, reports Reuters. The last auction in 2013 brought the Austrian state EUR 2 billion. The highest bidder, Telekom Austria, paid EUR 1 billion to receive 50 percent of the whole spectrum, leaving Drei with no frequencies for the 800 MHzz range used for LTE connections. Drei and T-Mobile had appealed the auction saying that it was anticompetitive. Hutchison's Drei withdrew the appeal, but T-Mobile said that it was not planning to withdraw. The court is expected to take a final decision in November.
