Qualcomm and Teleepoch
Enter Into a 3G CDMA Subscriber Unit License Agreement, October
6, 2007
MTN chooses Cambridge Broadband
Networks for multi-service wireless network in Rwanda, October 6,
2007
Brazilian government to
publish 3G bidding rules soon, October 6, 2007
KTF 3G service suffers
from technical problems, October 6, 2007
Argentina’s Personal
lunches 3G service in Rosario, October 6, 2007
Russia has it's first 3G
network, October 6, 2007
AT&T could drop Alcatel-Lucent
as 3G mobile network supplier, October 6, 2007
Enea Extends License Agreement
with ZTE for 3G Handsets, October 2, 2007
LG to unveil premium handsets
in Brazil, October 2, 2007
KTF 3G subscribers doubled
in less than 3 months, October 2, 2007
3G policy in India will
be non-uniform, October 2, 2007
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Mobilcom returns 3G license
December 28, 2003
German 3G license holder Mobilcom handed back its 3G mobile license last
week to the telecom regulator RegTP. The operator froze rollout of 3G
networks last year after its founder and former boss, Gerhard Schmid,
fell out with the company's key shareholder France Télécom
which left Mobilcom with Euro 7 billion in debt.
The license would have been taken away in January next year because Mobilcom
failed to meet the minimum service area coverage as require by the license.
Mobilcom wrote down the value of the license to zero and sold parts of
its 3G infrastructure to rival E-Plus earlier this year.
Mobilcom said in a statement that they would now be able to offer 3G
services as a reseller, operating mobile services on another operator's
network. It would not have been possible for the company to do this if
it held on to the license.
The regulator will also recall the 3G license held by Quam, back by Spain's
Telefónica Móviles, which has frozen its rollout and unable
to meet coverage requirements.
Germany is now left with four 3G operators, Vodafone, Deutsche Telekom,
E-Plus and O2. Vodafone has launched its 3G service but only to selected
corporate users. The service is aimed at laptop users and uses a 3G wireless
card for connection to the network. No 3G handsets are available at the
moment and the average consumer will have to wait until 2004 before they
get their hands on a 3G phone.
German 3G licenses were sold for around Euro 8.5 billion back in 2000.
Mobilcom will be looking to reclaim as much as Euro 7.14 billion from
the regulator. They have asked lawyers to see whether the 3G licence could
be defined as a service rather than a product. As a service, Mobilcom
could argue that it had used the service for only 3 of the 20 years for
which the licence was valid, and should be compensated for the services
that it did not receive.
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