Qualcomm confirmed reports that it has agreed to sell its UK holdings of L-band spectrum to two of the countries’ mobile operators, Vodafone and Hutchison Three. The chip giant acquired 40 MHz in the 1452 MHZ-1492 MHz band for £8.34m ($12.8m) in 2008. The spectrum was once expected to power a mobile broadcasting launch, but Qualcomm pulled back from its MediaFLO technology in 2010, and since then has concentrated its mobile TV efforts on LTE Broadcast. It sold its US FLO spectrum, which consisted of unpaired 700 MHz frequencies, to AT&T in 2011, and now has followed suit with its UK 1.4 GHz holdings. Like the spectrum AT&T picked up, these assets are of rising interest to operators. Once concerned…