Netia puts plans tenderly on hold for a few weeks

"Netia's application was already approved by the Internal Security Agency. There are no formal obstacles to issue a positive decision. It will be issued in mid August," said Witold Graboś, the head of the Office for Telecommunications and Post Regulation (URTiP), which organized the tender. The delay is due to the arguments the regulator has with three other mobile-phone operators, Centertel, Polkomtel and Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa, which were dissatisfied with the resolution of the tender. URTiP received their appeals against the decision to reserve the frequencies for Netia and their requests to annul the tender. The regulator believes that all the appeal procedures should be finished in August. Meanwhile, Netia's president, Wojciech Mądalski, said that although the company had expected to receive the license in mid July, a several-week delay was no problem. Netia Mobile will have to pay zł.350 million for the frequencies within two weeks of receiving the license. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 7; Parkiet, p. 3) E.B.