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