Another government expecting big UMTS windfall?

date: 20th February 2001, source by: europemedia.net

Slovenian Finance Minister Anton Rop announced in an interview on 16 February that the government will be expecting the auction of third-generation cellular UMTS (universal mobile telecommunications services) licences to raise up to 1.5 per cent of the country's GDP.

The government's high ambitions will make uncomfortable reading for the country's three cellular operators, Mobitel, Simobil and Western Wireless. Moreover, the whole tender - which is expected later this year - could be threatened by the government's revenue expectations, as occurred in Poland.

However, the cellular market in Slovenia is much more developed than that of Poland, which is the only Central European state to have tendered its UMTS spectrum so far.

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