By John Oates, 24 August 2001 08:00
NEWS One of the six successful bidders for a German 3G licence has warned that at least one of the licence-holders will go bust. Ernst Folgmann, chief executive of Group 3G, told the Financial Times Deutschland that the market could not support more than five companies. Folgmann should know: Group 3G is seen as the weakest of the six licence holders as it has neither a network nor existing subscribers. Group 3G is a joint-venture between Spain's Telefonica and Finland's Sonera. The other licence holders are BT's Viag Interkom, KPN's E-Plus, Vodafone's Mannesmann, Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile and France Telecom's Mobilcom. Group 3G is set to reveal its brand name in October and will spend DM100m (£32m) in advertising in the last few months of the year.
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