Poland plans to end LTE tender procedures by mid-May

Poland plans to complete all the procedures tied to the LTE frequency tender by mid-May at the latest, telecom market regulator UKE head Magdalena Gaj told the Polish Press Agency. "We would like to end it as soon as possible to make this frequency bundle [won by NetNet] commercially available," Gaj said. "We want it to end by the end of April, at the latest by mid-May." In the tender, five 800 Mhz blocks and 14 blocks of 2.6 GHz were put up for sale, each bidder could buy up to two 800 MHz blocks and four 2.6 GHz. The auction, which ended in October, raised PLN 9.23 billion in bids, nearly six times more than expected. One of the winners, NetNet, has withdrawn from the auction.