T-Mobile paid PLN 2 bln for LTE frequency auction
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Mobile network operator T-Mobile Polska made a PLN 2 billion payment to the State Treasury for the final 800 MHz band in the frame of LTE frequency auction, T-Mobile CEO Adam Sawicki informed.
On June 23, the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) announced that Poland allocated the full set of frequencies from its 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz LTE frequency auction, sending off the final unclaimed 800 MHz band to T-Mobile and rejigging frequency assignments.
T-Mobile Polska took the fifth 800 MHz frequency band which had been abandoned by the auction winner and was given 14 days to pay PLN 2.022 billion. The remaining auction winners have already put up just over PLN 7.18 billion for the frequencies they won in the tender.
In March, T-Mobile increased its LTE network coverage up to 87 percent as a result of the launch of 100 base stations working on the LTE basis with 800MHz frequency.
T-Mobile has been Poland's largest mobile phone network operator since 1996.
