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Oh, hadn't realised it wasn't named yet 
. You can add the Dutch government BTW, we had them auctioned as well. Our Minister of Finance hoped to get around 20bln euro (a quarter of the UKs 80bln, as we have about 25% of the population), but he ended up with "only" 6 bln or so.
This was still pretty amazing because we sold 5 licenses and there were only 5 serious candidates. The largest Dutch tleco had a big say in how the auction would be organised, which of course was a very, very bad idea. Then again, our Gov owns, I think, about 37% of the shares of said company. No excuse that is, but it helps explain the (prolly lame) actions of the Dutch Gov.
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. You can add the Dutch government BTW, we had them auctioned as well. Our Minister of Finance hoped to get around 20bln euro (a quarter of the UKs 80bln, as we have about 25% of the population), but he ended up with "only" 6 bln or so.This was still pretty amazing because we sold 5 licenses and there were only 5 serious candidates. The largest Dutch tleco had a big say in how the auction would be organised, which of course was a very, very bad idea. Then again, our Gov owns, I think, about 37% of the shares of said company. No excuse that is, but it helps explain the (prolly lame) actions of the Dutch Gov.
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