{"id":2776019,"date":"2026-02-24T16:36:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2776019\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:36:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:36:28","slug":"germany-admits-four-companies-to-5g-frequency-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2776019\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany admits four companies to 5G frequency auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-testid=\"EagerImage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/archive-images.prod.global.a201836.reutersmedia.net\/2019\/02\/25\/LYNXNPEF1O0TW.JPG\"   height=\"2624\" alt=\"A surveillance camera is pictured in front of the headquarters of Vodafone Germany in Duesseldorf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A surveillance camera is pictured in front of the headquarters of Vodafone Germany in Duesseldorf September 12, 2013. A hacker has gained access to one of Vodafone Germany&#8217;s servers and has&#8230; \u3082\u3063\u3068\u8aad\u3080<\/p>\n<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; Germany has admitted four companies to take part in an auction for fifth-generation (5G) mobile network frequencies, the Federal Network Agency said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Telefonica Deutschland and 1&amp;1 Drillisch, a unit of United Internet, can participate in the auction that will begin on March 19, the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator added the auction date could be changed due to ongoing legal proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s three main network operators &#8211; Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone and Telefonica Deutschland &#8211; are all suing the regulator to determine the legality of new preconditions for participating in the auction.<\/p>\n<p>Germany stipulated that bidders for 5G mobile frequencies must invest to expand the country&#8217;s mobile network and potentially allow new entrants, like United Internet, to use their infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"SignOff\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__extra_small__8Buss body-module__full_width__kCIGb body-module__extra_small_body__Bfz20 sign-off-module__text__LQAMP\">Reporting by Riham Alkousaa and Emma Thomasson; Editing by Thomas Seythal and Mark Potter<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"Body\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"text-module__text__0GDob text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 text-module__regular__qJJtA text-module__small__sph8i body-module__base__o--Cl body-module__small_body__gOmDf article-body-module__element__5eCce article-body-module__trust-badge__5mS3f\">\u79c1\u305f\u3061\u306e\u884c\u52d5\u898f\u7bc4\uff1a\u30c8\u30e0\u30bd\u30f3\u30fb\u30ed\u30a4\u30bf\u30fc\u300c\u4fe1\u983c\u306e\u539f\u5247\u300d, opens new tab<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A surveillance camera is pictured in front of the headquarters of Vodafone Germany in Duesseldorf September 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2776020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784994],"tags":[14869,762879,762715,534347,762883,52896,762734,589033,62869,38674,762812,764648,764649,763118,763986,762888,762679,762733,770416,763546,763547,5326],"class_list":{"0":"post-2776019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-chip","10":"tag-cmpny","11":"tag-cn","12":"tag-coms1","13":"tag-de","14":"tag-europ","15":"tag-fin","16":"tag-gb","17":"tag-germany","18":"tag-mtpix","19":"tag-phon","20":"tag-phon1","21":"tag-pxp","22":"tag-regs","23":"tag-tcom","24":"tag-topnws","25":"tag-weu","26":"tag-wirlss","27":"tag-wles","28":"tag-wles1","29":"tag-5326"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/116126586714109779","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2776019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2776020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}