Netia wins GSM tender with bid of zł.350 million

"The company applies for the allocation of those frequencies on the territory of the whole country for 25 years in order to build a mobile telephone network in the GSM 1800 Mhz standard," revealed URTiP. The application was submitted on May 9 directly after the announcement of the results of two tenders for GSM and UMTS frequencies. The first tender was not resolved, but Netia won the latter one with an offer of almost zł.350 million. However, the company maintains that it cannot realize its business plan without the GSM frequencies and therefore may decide not to buy the UMTS frequencies. Netia's spokeswoman Jolanta Ciesielska informed that the company will reveal its decision on whether to buy the UMTS frequencies on Monday. Meanwhile, the other participants of the tender including Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (PTC) and Polkomtel announced that they are going to protest the results of the tender. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 3) E.B.