Court of Justice 7 September 2006, C-369/04 (Hutchison 3G UK Ltd and Others v Commissioners of Customs and Excise.)

Opinion of the Advocate-General Opinion of the Advocate-General I – Introduction 1. In March/April 2000 the United Kingdom conducted an auction of five licence packages for the use of certain frequency bands to provide mobile communications under the UMTS/IMT-2000 (2) standard (also called third‑generation mobile communications – 3 G); it was the first Member State to do so.