Two Croatian operators have bid for 800 MHz band spectrum not assigned in Croatia’s 2012 tender process.
The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (Hakom) announced today that incumbent T-Hrvatski Telekom, majority-owned by Germany’s…
Two Croatian operators have bid for 800 MHz band spectrum not assigned in Croatia’s 2012 tender process.
The Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (Hakom) announced today that incumbent T-Hrvatski Telekom, majority-owned by Germany’s Deutsche Telekom, and smaller rival Vipnet have bid for the remaining 20 MHz of digital dividend spectrum.
Vipnet offered Hrk110.15m (US$19.9m) while T-Hrvatski Telekom offered Hrk105.11m (US$19m) for frequency block ‘A’, the regulator said. Only the incumbent bid for frequency block ‘B’, offering Hrk150.65m (US$27.23m).
Hakom said its final decision on the licences will follow an analysis of the tender documentation and is expected in the first half of November.
T-Hrvatski Telekom and Vipnet were the only two companies to win spectrum in Croatia’s October 2012 auction. They paid Hrk150m (US$27.12m) each for 2×10 MHz of spectrum in the 790 MHz-862 MHz band.
Croatia’s third mobile operator is Tele2.
