Tele2 presses for key changes to mobile telecom license tender

Tele2 is criticized the Telecom and Postal Regulatory Office (URTiP) for structuring the terms in such a way, that the price offered for the license plays a very important role. This would put Tele2 at a disadvantage to incumbent mobile operators, who could be willing to pay a high price for the frequencies offered by URTiP in order not to introduce competition to the market. Tele2 wants potential new operators to be awarded 100 points for increasing competition on the telecom market, rather than 40, as set by URTiP. Tele2 also wants the maximum fee amount for GSM and UMTS frequencies to be set at EUR 10 million and EUR 100 million, respectively. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B4) T.J.