There are two blocks of frequencies to provide 3G mobile by ARCEP and will be awarded by next summer for about 120 million euros each.
In January last ARCEP assigned a block of 5 MHz to 15 MHz of mobile spectrum of the fourth 3G license in Iliad, which now has until 2012 to launch its mobile telephony offer called Mobile Free.
In a recent interview with news agency Reuters, Jean-Ludovic Silicani, head of the French telecoms regulator, said that the two blocks 5 MHz of 3G spectrum will be allocated the remaining by next summer “We hope to make public the rules (editor’s note: the call for applications) in mid-February. The deadline for responses will be late March or mid-April. The two blocks of 5 MHz frequencies will be allocated to later in May ”
Regarding the price of each block of 5 MHz, the president of the national regulator has confirmed the price was raised by the press, namely around 120 million euros each.