As expected on Friday Slovak Telecommunication Office (STO) granted TEF O2 Slovakia (subsidiary of TEF O2 CR) licence for 3rd mobile operator. The licence for GSM 900 and 1800 MHz band but also UMTS and FS 29GHz is valid for 20 years. However the decision is still not legally valid. The office will inform about specific conditions that the winner has undertaken to meet after it takes effect (approx. two-week period).
Our view:
Although recently there were undertaken some legal steps from runner-up B Four consortium, STO allowed TEF O2 Slovakia to operate as 3rd Slovak operator. We would wait to comment more on this issue when specific conditions will be revealed.