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Czech
last updated: January 30, 2002
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January 30, 2002
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The Czech cabinet agreed on Monday to delay awarding
the third licence for 3G mobile phones until operators' appetite grows,
Transport and Communications Minister Jaromir Schling said. He said
that the third licence would be awarded with the same conditions as
the first two, granted last year. |
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January 22, 2002
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The Slovakian government on Monday launched a tender to sell three
WCDMA 3G mobile telephone licences for Sk1.5bn (US$35 million) each.
The modest fixed price for the licences reflects the disappointing
results of UMTS tenders in the neighbouring Czech Republic and Poland
and the failure of two previous attempts to attract a third GSM
operator to Slovakia.
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December 7, 2001
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Two Czech mobile phone operators bid above expectations
for 3G licences, fair value according to analysts but only about half
what the government had hoped for when the process started last year.
The Czech Telecommunications Office (CTU) said on Friday that RadioMobil
bid 3.861 billion crowns ($104 million) for a licence. Its competitor
Eurotel bid 3.535 billion Czech crowns ($95.67 million), a touch above
the state's minimum of 3.5 billion crowns which was halved after unsuccessful
first round in September. |
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December 3, 2001
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Both Eurotel and RadioMobil entered the license contest,
but Cesky Mobil refrained from entry saying that the minimum bid price
was too high. The Czech government set the minimum price for the sealed
bid auction of three licenses at CZK3.5bn (EUR106m), reducing it from
CZK6.67bn (EUR202m). The winners are expected to each pay CZK1bn (EUR30m)
straight away and then the rest in annual payments over 10 years,
plus interest. |
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November 15, 2001
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The Czech Republic's Telecommunications Office (CTU)
has said that it will ask the government to specify the reserve price
for its 3G licenses by November 24th, ahead of the November 30th deadline
for bids in the auction. The three incumbent networks have already
refused to pay US$177 million in an earlier attempt to sell the 3G
licenses. |
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November 5, 2001
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The Czech Republic Telecommunications Office has said
that interested parties have until November 30th to submit sealed
bids for the three available 3G licenses in the country. The regulator
will detail the reserve price at least four days before the deadline.
This is the third attempt to sell the licenses after the three incumbent
GSM license holders declined to take part in previous auctions. |
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October 30, 2001:
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All three Czech mobile operators said on Tuesday they would not
participate in the repeated first round of a process to allocate
third-generation mobile phone licences, citing high price and other
tough conditions.
The country's leading operator Eurotel, a joint venture of Verizon
Communications and AT&T Wireless, declined to say if the refusal
automatically means it would enter the second round of the process,
an auction.
The other two operators, Deutsche Telekom's RadioMobil and TIW
unit Cesky Mobil, said they would also not bid in the first round.
Cesky Mobil said it would enter the auction, slated for November.
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October 15, 2001:
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The Czech government has announced on October 15 that it will approach
the country's three mobile operators this week with an adjusted
set of conditions for awarding 3G mobile phone licences. In the
new proposal there are certain changes that are meant as a compromise
between the original plan and the mobile operators' offers. No further
details were disclosed. Unclear costs of a UMTS licence has been
one of many question marks surrounding the privatisation of the
country's dominant telecoms firm Cesky Telecom.
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September 25, 2001:
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The Czech government has revealed that it will now be issuing just
three next-generation mobile licences instead of the four which
it had originally planned. The authorities have been forced to alter
the terms of their 3G spectrum sale after only three companies registered
an interest in the concessions, with one of these - Cesky Mobil
- still unsure whether or not it will proceed with its bid.
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September 10, 2001:
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The Czech cabinet is set to review methods of reviving the disappointing
tender for 3G mobile phone licences. Prime Minister Milos Zeman
stated that they would be considering all options, including cutting
the price of the licences or postponing the sale. The government
had earlier believed that it might receive E584.4bn in revenues
from the sale of three or four of their UMTS licences. The little
interest the auction has received, however, has left the government
in doubt of reaching its target.
So far, only RadioMobil and Eurotel have made a bid for the Czech
licences worth E195.7m.
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June 26, 2001:
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The Czech telecoms regulator CTU will call a tender on Friday for
four licences to operate UMTS mobile telephone networks.
It plans to offer three licences to the current operators of GSM
mobile phone networks. It plans to auction the fourth, plus any
of the other three if current operators refuse to pay a fixed fee.
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14th Feb 01:
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The Czech government said it will sell four third-generation
mobile phone licences at five billion crowns ($135 million) each. |
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25th Jan 01:
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The Czech Telecoms Office (CTU) has proposed to sell
UMTS licences to the country's existing GSM operators for Kcs5bn ($135m)
each, and offer a fourth licence in an auction. The licences would
be sold in a two-round tender. The existing operators, EuroTel, RadioMobil
and Cesky Mobil, would take part in the first round. If some of the
three licences are not sold in this round, they would be offered in
an auction together with the fourth licence. |
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