Of the six companies which submitted preliminary offers for the right to use frequencies in the 900 MHz band, only RCS&RDS and Vietnamese operator Viettel were rejected.
The remaining bidders, namely Magyar Telekom, Telenor Hungary, Vodafone Hungary and a consortium made up of Hungary’s postal company, Villamosmuvek and MFB Invest, may participate in the auction, to be organized on January 5, the telecom regulator said in a press release.
Telenor, Vodafone and Magyar Telekom already provide mobile telephony services in Hungary.
The offer submitted by RCS&RDS was rejected as the operator’s subsidiaries in Hungary failed to pay the commissions owed to the telecom regulator, reads the press release.
RCS&RDS was set up 17 years ago by Oradea-based businessman Zoltan Teszari. It operates in Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Spain and Italy. In Hungary, the Romanian operator provides hard-line telephony and Internet services, as well as cable and satellite TV services.
In Romania, RCS&RDS is also present on the mobile telephony market.