Ion Smeeianu, Dan Georgescu, and Liviu Nistoran propose that the state should charge between 1 and 28 million euros for the licences that enable Orange and Vodafone to provide communications services in Romania.
Orange and Vodafone, the top two mobile phone operators on the Romanian market need to be forced by the state to pay a fee in the range of millions of euros to renew their GSM licences, which expire next year, Ion Smeeianu, Dan Georgescu, and Liviu Nistoran, former chairmen of the communications regulating authority, told ZF.
Orange and Vodafone's GSM mobile telephony licences, which the two companies won in 1996, after paying 75 million dollars each, expire in December 2011 - with the state and the operators due to reach an agreement this year on the terms of the renewal. The institutions involved in the process are the Government and the telecom regulator.
Before calculating how much to charge Orange and Vodafone, representatives of the Romanian state are still uncertain about whether there is a legal framework for charging a new fee or not, and what this fee should be called. The state will definitely collect something from extending the two GSM licences, say the former chairmen of the telecom regulator.
Ion Smeeianu, Dan Georgescu, and Liviu Nistoran propose that the state should charge between 1 and 28 million euros for the licences that enable Orange and Vodafone to provide communications services in Romania.
Orange and Vodafone, the top two mobile phone operators on the Romanian market need to be forced by the state to pay a fee in the range of millions of euros to renew their GSM licences, which expire next year, Ion Smeeianu, Dan Georgescu, and Liviu Nistoran, former chairmen of the communications regulating authority, told ZF.
Orange and Vodafone's GSM mobile telephony licences, which the two companies won in 1996,
