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Extension of UMTS for Swedish companies

Sweden has relaxed the rules for the construction of the new UMTS mobile networks. The license holder would get 18 months longer now time to put their nets ready, said the head of the National Regulatory Authority for Post and Telecommunications (PTS). So far, the networks would have to stand up to the end of the year. The extension until mid-2005 was made possible by an amendment to the Telecommunications Act, Billinger said. Only then will the company now threatened penalties or actions brought by the authority, if they do not fulfill their obligations UMTS.

End of March, the phone companies TeliaSonera and Tele2 for their UMTS joint venture required an extension of the deadline by even two years. They had an “unforeseeable change in circumstances” in the telecoms market asserted. Before that, the competitors had requested an extension of Orange and Vodafone. This was rejected by the PTS but first. Still No Decision is an application of the fourth license holder’s third

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