MILAN (WiMAX Day). While the date for the auction of 3.5 GHz spectrum in Italy has yet to be confirmed (it was scheduled for June 2007), it was reported in the Italian daily Corriere Della Sera that the Italian government, including the telecomunications ministry AgCom, expect each of the national WiMAX licenses will fetch roughly € 80 million Euros. The ministry has had to jump through numerous hurdles this year to have the auction rules approved. AgCom was criticised for engineering the auction rules to favour bids from the incumbent telecoms such as Telecom Italia, Vodafone, Fastweb, Tiscali, and British Telecom. With the price of the auction now already known, it makes the formalities all the more simple.