3G and 4G communications are beginning to be introduced in Ukraine
Kiev, March 12 (Navigator, Denis Andreev) - The Ukrainian National Commission for Communications and Informatization decided within a week to create a working group on the implementation of third and fourth generation mobile communication standards - 3G and LTE, writes the Kommersant-Ukraine newspaper.
The group's first meeting will take place on March 18, and it will be required to present its findings by the end of May.
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The creation of the working group was initiated by the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Entrepreneurship, Regulatory and Antimonopoly Policy.
He also proposed setting the cost of a license for telecom activities in the new standards at UAH 38 million for one region, or a little more than UAH 1 billion for all regions of the country (if we take into account Crimea and Sevastopol). For comparison, the cost of a license to operate under the GSM standard is now 340 thousand UAH.
Thus, if all operators from the Ukrainian “Big Three” (“Kyivstar”, MTS and life:)) acquire a license, the budget will receive about 3 billion UAH.
Compared to other countries this is very little. For example, an auction for five licenses in the UK in April 2000 brought the royal treasury $32 billion, in the Netherlands - $2,3 billion, in Germany for 12 licenses - $46,2 billion.
However, in European countries the issuance of licenses took place back in 2000. In Ukraine, attempts to hold a competition for issuing licenses for 3G frequencies have been made since 2007, but the decision is constantly postponed under all sorts of pretexts.
The only such license in the country belongs to Ukrtelecom, which has few subscribers and a very limited network area.
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