Phone operators eagerly await news of latest tender rules

Representatives of three fixed line operators - Energis, Netia and Tele2 - are united in their demand for a guarantee from the Office that the eventual winner of the tender will service its customers using the already existing mobile networks. There also seem to be a number of other problems. "According to the previous terms, the tender winner would be the company that offered the highest price, which gave the existing mobile phone companies a significant advantage in the tender and they could have paid even zł.1 billion just to block the entrance of a competitor," said Netia's president Wojciech Mądalski. The top management of Energis, Netia and Tele2 are not excluding, if they take part in the tender, that they might form a consortium so as to be able to face the incumbent operators. (Puls Biznesu, p. 5) A.K.