Tele2 Polska ready to become next GSM operator

Fredrik de Lerigon, general director of Tele2 Polska, announced "We are interested in participating in the tender for the additional UMTS and GSM frequencies, but only if the government is not too greedy." This is related to the announcement, scheduled for July 14, where the president of Telecom and Postal Regulation Office (URTiP) will declare his intentions for the free frequencies. "One of Tele2's services is mobile telephony, which means this is a segment of natural expansion for us," claims de Lerigon. He added that the company is ready to bear a cost of up to EUR 1 billion to create an UMTS infrastructure, but they would not pay anything close to even half that amount for the license alone. He declared that an acceptable sum would be in the region of EUR 15 million, which stands in contrast to the EUR 650 million the three domestic mobile phone operators paid three years ago for their licenses. (Parkiet, p. 6) M.M.