Serbia looks for third mobile operator
BELGRADE — The Republic Telecommunications Agency has announced a public competition for another mobile phone operator in Serbia.
So far, the only buying of tender documentation in the allotted amount of time was done by Austrian company Mobikom, who already participated in the auction for the Mobi 63 company, but lost to Norway’s Telenor.
The competition for the third licensed operator was announced on September 19 with the starting price of 320 million euros.
Operators who have more than three million mobile service customers and whose income at the end of last year was more than 500 million euros, can participate in the tender for becoming Serbia’s third operator, next to Telekom Srbija and Telenor.
The license for the third mobile operator in Serbia is given out for a period of ten years and once the ten years pass, the contract is extended for another ten automatically.
According to the regulations of the public tender, the names of all interested bidders will be announced on November 6 and the final decision on the best offer is scheduled to be made on November 15.
