Ireland ready to award licenses on Tuesday

date: June 24, 2002

Ireland, the last European Union country to issue its 3G services will award its 3G mobile licenses early Tuesday, the Office of the Director for Telecommunications Regulation said.

Although the Department of Finance had forecast it would make EUR394 million through three bids for its four licenses, the total is now expected to be around EUR280 million.

After more than a year of intense bureaucratic wrangling between government departments over pricing, the licenses will be awarded on the basis of merit.

Vodafone and 02 unit Digifone, which operate 2G licenses in Ireland, both applied for an A and/or B licence, while Hutchison Whampoa bid for an A licence.

On offer is one 20-year Class A license for EUR51 million, which must be rolled out to 53 per cent of the population by the end of 2005 and 80 per cent by the end of 2007.

Three 20-year B licenses are on offer for EUR114 million to be running with a 33 per cent demographic coverage by the end of June 2006, and with a 53 per cent coverage by the end of June 2008.

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