U.K. communications regulator Ofcom said it intends to allow mobile operators’ business frequencies, permitting France Telecom SA and Deutsche Telekom AG’s British partnership to sell part of their holding.

The business enterprise, named everything everywhere, was demanded previous March by the European Commission to market one fourth of their band holdings in the band 1800 megahertz. The sale was a situation for the combination of these two companies’ U.K. mobile-phone companies. Everything everywhere said right now it intends to sell the spectrum towards the end of this year.

Ofcom’s proposals enable the venture and other operators such as Vodafone Group Plc with Telefonica SA’s O2 unit to make their holdings because they request to reorganize networks to cope with orders for data services in Smartphones which includes Apple Inc.’s iPhone.

“This is definitely a crucial milestone inside the transformation of spectrum management in the U.K.,” Ofcom CEO Ed Richards said in the statement. The increase in data services “is placing increased demands on spectrum,” he explained.

Operators are going to be in a position to bid for additional frequencies within an auction within the first quarter of 2012, Ofcom stated in November. The regulator said these days it would be clever to block the trades if they altered the U.K. marketplace.