Netia has until Monday to make up its mind over UMTS

URTiP president Witold Graboś said:"The claims for stopping the reservation decision are based on poor legal grounds and operators should cut prices rather than spend money on lawyers." Now Netia Mobile still has until next Monday to decide whether or not to accept the newly won UMTS frequency. Representative of Netia partner Novator, Con Gonticas, says that it can still make a profit despite not being granted the GSM 1800 too, but refused to comment on whether or not Netia will finally accept the frequency. The problem for Netia is that it does not possess a GSM frequency, as the tender on GSM 1800 channel has not been decided on yet. Thus it is vulnerable to existing operators, who can refuse to lease their networks and curb Netia access to mass clients. If Netia does not accept the frequency it will be offered to the second best bidder Qiana Investments Fund, which is owned by Hutchison Whampoa. (Parkiet p.5) M.G..