Incumbent cellcos appeal NMHH award of frequencies to mobile start-up

Magyar Telekom (T-Mobile), Telenor Hungary (formerly Pannon) and Vodafone Hungary yesterday filed an appeal against the national telecom regulator’s recent award of mobile frequencies to a would-be new market entrant – a state-backed consortium of power utility MVM, postal services operator Magyar Posta and a unit of Hungary's development bank MFB. The appeal, which questions the consortium’s right to participate in the auction as well as regulations on domestic roaming services for the new operator, means the start of the newcomer’s network deployment could now be pushed back two months to April. On 31 January this year the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) closed out the tender for 900MHz when it sold a 10.8MHz block of spectrum to the three incumbents as well as to the MVM-led consortium

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OVETEL Incumbent cellcos appeal NMHH award of frequencies to mobile start-up