Companies that bid for a few large regions to obtain nationwide spectrum paid almost twice as much as firms with the equivalent amount of spectrum assembled from hundreds of licences in smaller areas.
The auction will offer the equivalent of three-quarters of the mobile spectrum in use today, some 80% more than was released in the 3G auction in 2000.
Across the political spectrum philanthropy seems to have become the modern equivalent of indulgences purchased by the rich to atone for their participation in the sin of moneymaking.