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News Vivendi's telecommunications arm Cegetel is expected to bid for a licence. In response, Fabius said: "That's just the corporate view, if he says it is too high then he will not be a candidate for a licence, but then if he is a candidate it proves... [08 Jun 2000]
SCO threatens to pull SGI's Unix licence
News High-end computer maker Silicon Graphics Incorporated is in line to become the next target of Linux opponent SCO Group, with the controversial software seller threatening to revoke SGI's Unix licence. [02 Oct 2003]
Bought a TV recently? Then the TV licence people know about it...
News But it's not widely known that the organisation which administers the licence scheme on behalf of the BBC, TV Licensing, uses the data to check if the purchaser has a TV licence. If there's no match between its records and the details supplied by... [05 Feb 2003]
Legal eagles fly in to Irish mobile licence scandal
News The losing bidders in the controversial Irish mobile phone licence scandal have started separate legal proceedings against the way in which the licences were distributed. Allegations abound over the nature of his business relationship with Esat... [05 Aug 2002]
German 3G licence tops DM20bn mark
News The German third generation (3G) mobile licence auction has exceeded the DM20bn (£6.17bn) level predicted by Finance Minister, Hans Eichel. Now in its seventh day, round 86 of the German sale closed at DM24.7bn (£7.6bn) - rising DM3bn (£926m) since... [08 Aug 2000]
SCO gets shifty about Linux licence plan
News In addition, the company has extended until 31 October a deadline after which it planned to double prices for the Linux licence. The SCO Group has backed off a plan to send invoices to corporate users in order to prod them into buying licenses for... [16 Oct 2003]
BBC set to scoop digital TV licence
News The Independent Television Commission (ITC) is today expected to reveal the names of the successful parties who will take over the digital terrestrial licence vacated by ITV Digital. According to a report in the Guardian the winner is believed to... [04 Jul 2002]
NHS Microsoft licence move to save millions
News The switch will double the number of licences purchased by the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) and consequently trigger much bigger discount levels.silicon.com understands that the improved discount from the addition of the NHS licences will... [18 Jul 2003]
Bids reach E40bn in German mobile licence auction
News Bidding in the German 3G wireless licence auction reached nearly E40bn (£24.22bn) late last night, going beyond the E38.5bn (£23.3bn) total raised for five UK licences last April. Six companies are still in the race after 138 rounds of bidding... [15 Aug 2000]
Italian government debate fourth mobile licence
News The Italian government is setting up a ministerial commission to award its fourth mobile phone operator licence this week. Two groups, which applied unsuccessfully for the third licence, are already in the running this time around. [11 Jan 1999]
Telefonica pulls out of wireless licence auction
News Spanish telecoms giant, Telefonica pulled out of the UK auction for a third generation wireless licence late yesterday, as bidding topped £21.2bn. Vodafone remains the highest bidder, offering £5.66bn for the much sought after licence B. [18 Apr 2000]
In brief: Orange and KPN NV win Belgium mobile licence
News Orange and Dutch national telco, KPN NV, have been jointly awarded Belgium's third mobile licence. There were no rival bids against the pair, who will have to pay the Belgian government 8bn Belgian francs (£130m) to become official operators. [06 Jul 1998]
SCO slams Red Hat and sets new licence prices
News McBride said businesses that continue using Linux without a SCO licence can expect legal action. The new licence gives customers the right to use any SCO-controlled Unix code allegedly incorporated in Linux, starting with the 2.4 version of the... [06 Aug 2003]
Microsoft forced to pay $20m to Sun for Java licence
News A Californian judge has barred Microsoft from using the Java compatible trademark and ordered the company to accept a limited Java licence prohibiting it from distributing its own updated versions of the cross platform development language. [24 Jan 2001]
Orange stakes claim to Swedish 3G licence
News France Telecom and its British-based mobile arm, Orange, are to jointly bid for a Swedish third generation (3G) UMTS licence. The licence allocations are expected in November. The companies will also join forces with Swedish mobile phone company... [17 Aug 2000]
