German authorities have ruled the country’s 2019 spectrum auction to be unlawful. The original auction was controversial in its own right, and was described as “a bitter taste” by DT at the time. Now operators may get a second crack at the whip if the regulator decides to repeat the auction. Germany’s 5G spectrum auction in 2019 stood out for an especially contentious tone between the country’s MNOs and the way that it designated precious midband spectrum for industrial use. The German regulator for telecommunications (as well as electricity, gas, post, and railways), the Bundesnetzagentur or BnetzA chose to reserve 100 MHz of 3.5 GHz spectrum for private network use. This left just 300 MHz in the 5G band to be snapped…