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Bulgaria looking for fourth 3G licensee

Bulgaria is seeking a fourth carrier

Bulgarian communications regulator the CRC has issued a tender for a fourth 3G licensee in the country. Prospective bidders will be allowed to submit applications for the UMTS licence until November 14, with the award due to take place December 7. The licence will be valid for 15 years and will consist of 2 х 15MHz blocks of FDD spectrum in the 2GHz band.

Bulgaria’s Vivacom to invest €600m in network upgrades

Antel expects to hook up 80k Uruguayan homes to FTTH by end-2011

Bulgarian telco Vivacom has confirmed that it is planning to invest €600mn in rolling out a Fibre-to-the-Building (FTTB) network which will cover 1mn households by 2014

Telekom Austria acquires two Bulgarian cable operators

Telekom Austria is to acquire 100 per cent stakes in the Bulgarian cable operators Megalan Network AD and Spectrum Net AD through its Bulgarian subsidiary M-Tel. Telekom Austria will pay €83m for the stakes.

Appetite for disruption

Appetite for disruption

Max Telecom aims to overturn the status quo in the Bulgarian telecoms market with WiMAX-enabled triple play services. In less than six months its aggressive rollout schedule and eye-catching service bundles have begun to rock the boat.