FRANKFURT, June 19 (Reuters) - Bidding ended on Friday inGermany's auction of radio frequencies for mobile phone networkoperators, with total bids of 5.08 billion euros ($5.75 billion)after 181 rounds in 16 days of bidding, the German telecomsregulator said.
Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica Deutschland and Vodafone vied for new blocks of airwavesto satisfy growing consumer demand for streaming video and otherdata-consuming applications.
Vodafone bid the most with 2.1 billion euros, followed byDeutsche Telekom with 1.8 billion and Telefonica Deutschlandwith 1.2 billion.
Analysts had expected the auction to raise a maximum of 4 to5 billion euros, far below the 50.8 billion euros the governmentraised in the auction in 2000 for new 3G network licenses, whenthere were six groups bidding.
Germany started the auction three weeks ago, setting a floorof 1.5 billion euros.($1 = 0.8839 euros) (Reporting by Harro ten Wolde; Editing by Georgina Prodhan)