France Should Scrap Plans for Fourth 3G Licence

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At the end of April 2008, the French telecom regulator, the Autorité de Régulation des Communications électroniques et des Postes (ARCEP), still hadn't decided whether it would pursue its plans to issue a fourth licence for 3G mobile services in France. In March 2007 the government invited companies to submit bids by the end of July 2007. Iliad, the owner of Internet service provider Free, was the only bidder, but ARCEP rejected the bid amid disputes about how Iliad would pay the €619 million licence fee.

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