“Ideally, an auction means selling the entire spectrum available. If we analyze the history of granting licenses in Romania, the entire amount has never sold out,” communications watchdog ANCOM’s chairman Vlad Stoica told ZF.
“If it sells out, we get at least EUR693 million. If we make a comparison with what we’ve had so far, what the Romanian government has offered and operators bought in terms of spectrum usage, and make an estimate, we should get something between EUR450 million to EUR500 million, the actual realistic estimates the government has always had.”
Under the circumstances, the success of the auction should be measured in the number of operators participating in it and buying spectrum, even if in small amounts, Stoica says.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)