propensity to hoard

hoarding disorder | compulsive hoarding | hoarding

acquisitiveness

They also argued that auctioning encouraged efficient use of spectrum, as long as they were properly designed to avoid speculation and hoarding.

(h) hoarding: global firms and investors look to hoard US dollars in a financial crisis due to its role as a world reserve currency;

Member States should therefore take appropriate ex ante or ex post regulatory measures (such as action to amend existing rights, to prohibit certain acquisitions of rights of use of spectrum, to impose conditions on spectrum hoarding and efficient use such as those referred to in Directive 2002/21/EC, to limit the amount of spectrum available for each undertaking, or to avoid excessive accumulation of rights of use of spectrum) to avoid distortions of competition in line with the principles underpinning Directive 2002/20/EC and Council Directive 87/372/EEC of 25 June 1987 on the frequency bands to be reserved for the coordinated introduc ...[+++]tion of public pan-European cellular digital land-based mobile communications in the Community (the ‘GSM’ Directive).

6. Where necessary in order to ensure the effective use of rights of use of spectrum and avoid spectrum hoarding, Member States may consider taking appropriate measures, such as financial penalties, incentive fees tools or the withdrawal of rights.