Azerbaijan to award 3G licenses by the end of this month
By Dusan Belic on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 9:06 AM PST In General
The Azerbaijani Communications and Information Technologies Ministry expects to be able to award 3G radio spectrum to the country’s three mobile operators by the end of this month. Each operator will be charged 11,000 manat (about $13,681) for their licenses, which is kinda cheap.
Originally, the licenses were expected to have been released late last year, following the settling of unspecified technical problems, but nothing further was heard.
For the record, according to the Mobile World database there were just over 5.8 million subscribers in the country at the end of the first quarter of this year, representing a population penetration level of 72%…
[Via: CellularNews]
