Additional revenues to the State Budget of Ukraine will amount to approximately UAH 3 billion. Operators will only become license holders after transferring funds to the treasury.
Mobile operators Kyivstar, Vodafone and lifecell won the lot for obtaining licenses to use the radio frequency spectrum in the range of 2100/2300/2600 MHz for 15 years following an auction held on November 19. Interfax-Ukraine reported this on Tuesday, November 19.
The auction format includes “voice bidding” and bidders raising bids.
The first lot was won by Vodafone for a license in the radio frequency bands 1945-1950/2135-2140 MHz at a starting price of UAH 458.3 million.
The second was won by lifecell with a price of UAH 463 million in the bidding for licenses in the radio frequency bands 1935-1940/2125-2130 MHz with a starting price of UAH 458.3 million.
The third lot was received by Kyivstar with a price of UAH 448.5 million in the bidding for licenses in radio frequency bands 1940-1945/2130-2135 MHz with a starting price of UAH 439.9 million.
The fourth was won by Kyivstar with a price of UAH 994.8 million in the bidding for licenses in the radio frequency bands 2355-2395 MHz with a starting price of UAH 984.8 million.
The fifth lot was won by Vodafone bidding for licenses in the radio frequency bands 2575-2610 MHz at a starting price of UAH 530 million.
Licenses are valid for 15 years.
It is expected that additional revenues to the State Budget of Ukraine will reach approximately UAH 3 billion. Operators will only become license holders after transferring funds to the treasury. They have one month to do it.
“We started preparing these frequencies in 2021, but the war became an obstacle. In 2022, these frequencies were given in terms of temporary use, because the frequencies were “crackling.” the opening of the auction Head of the National Commission that carries out state regulation in the field of electronic communications, radio frequency spectrum and postal services (NKEC), Alexander Zhivotovsky.
We remind you that the National Center for Operational and Technical Management of Telecommunications Networks (NTC) has updated the requirements for base stations of mobile operators under martial law.
It was also learned that the latest Wi-Fi 6E standard will be introduced in Ukraine.
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Source: korrespondent
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