Poland plans to end LTE tender procedures in around three month

Poland plans to complete all the procedures tied to the LTE frequency tender within some three months, telecom market regulator UKE head Magdalena Gaj told reporters. "[The] procedure is slightly more complicated from the point of view of the administrative procedure, particularly as bidders modified their motions during the procedure," Gaj said, "so it may last three months." 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 One of the winners, NetNet, has withdrawn from the auction. Poland has to decide what to do with the frequency bundle won by NetNet.