The licence allocation will now take place on 1 December instead of 17 November as originally intended. Poland's biggest fixed-line operator Netia has already pulled out of the race claiming "the conditions of the tender are not attractive.
Telefonica Moviles won its UMTS licence last May, and will invest a total of E5.28bn (£3.2bn) in the construction of its UMTS network. Telefonica is set to invest E121m (£73m) in the roll out of this first phase, expected to be completed by next...
Mobile phone network operators have found that rolling out 3G is a pricey proposition, with European operators alone having spent 1bn euros (about £640m) on 3G licences. A cellular technology called w-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access...
The UMTS Forum, largely made up of vendors and operators backing W-CDMA, will point out the vast majority of 3G networks will end up as W-CDMA, not CDMA2000, despite what the landscape looks like now.
The biggest, most embarrassing blunder has been the auction process several countries went through to allocate spectrum licences, lumbering major operators with billions of euros of debt. And on the technology side, Qualcomm, the San Diego company...
The Forum said it has also been accepted as a Market Representation Partner with mobile industry standards bodies 3GPP and 3GPP2, positioning it to advise on both CDMA and GSM cellular standards. Agreeing principles for interoperability between...