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Mannesmann Does Not See UMTS Infrastructure Sharing Possibledate: August 17, 2001 Chairman of Vodafone's unit Mannesmann Mobilfunk, Juergen von Kuczkowski told the press he does not see any chances of infrastructure sharing during the rollout of UMTS network in Germany. Shared use of sites, masts, antennas, cables and combines is permitted under the award conditions. He does not see how much money can be saved by technological infrastructure-sharing with other operators, but the company is open to talk with any 3G license holders in Germany. He commented on shared use of the core network would lead to a spectrum pool and is thus incompatible with the requirement of functions control as set out in the Telecommunications Act and the UMTS Award Conditions, thus not much options for investment savings or even be allowed under the current rules He also mentioned handset setbacks by suppliers will cause a timely delayed and does not see expect to see profit until 2004. In Germany operators will have until the end of 2005 in which to achieve the target of 50 percent coverage of the population. An operator needed therefore cover only 8 percent of the area of the Federal Republic with his own network. The rest could be supplemented by roaming agreements.
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