Lord Mandelson is to forge ahead with a consultation to extend indefinitely mobile phone companies’ 3G licences, despite the threat of a judicial review from BT.
The fixed-line phone group has written a “letter before action” to the Business Secretary, condemning plans to hand over for good the valuable licences to Vodafone and its peers as part of the Government’s Digital Britain project. It alleges that such a move “represents a gift of several billion pounds from the taxpayer to the mobile operators and is a barrier to competition and innovation in the mobile market”.
To read this report in The Times in full, see: business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/telecoms/article6971942.ece
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