Zl. 14 billion for third-generation mobile phone-licenses?

The Finance Ministry is expecting to earn zl. 14 billion in 2001 and 2002 from the sale of licenses for third-generation mobile phones (UMTS). Four or five licenses are to be issued. Within the next three weeks, the rules for tendering will be announced. The selection criteria, whether operational quality or size of the bid is to be the deciding factor, are not yet known.The results of the tender will be announced at the end of this year. All mobile phones operators currently active in Poland have expressed interest in bidding for the licenses, although they think the projected cost is too high. (Puls Biznesu, page 3) A.D