If you remember, Ukraine was planning to auction off a 3G license on November 30th. Those plans are scraped, as the National Communications Regulatory Commission of Ukraine has cancelled the process, due to President’s decision to block the migration of radio spectrum from military use to the mobile phone networks.
The regulator had planned to sell a single 3G license now and hold back up to three more licenses for a later sale.
At the moment, only the state-owned Ukrtelecom has a 3G license, which it got in 2005 without an open tender. The country has six mobile networks: Kyivstar, which holds 41% of the market; UMC (32.9%); Astelit (21.6%), Ukrainian Radio Systems (3.6%), and Ukrtelecom and Golden Telecom, both of which have less than 1% of the market…
[Via: CellularNews]