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Fiji: Digicel awarded country’s second mobile license Print E-mail
Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Digicel Fiji has become the country’s second mobile operator and will compete with Vodafone Fiji.

Three other bidders for the mobile license were Pacific Spectrum Holdings Limited, Telecom Pacific Limited and Unwired. Interim Commerce Minister Tom Ricketts said the other three bidders did not meet all of the government’s requirements.

Ricketts said Digicel would be issued a license once it paid the amount it bid, US$ 10.25 million. Digicel will have to wait until October before entering the market as agreed in the plan to de-regulate the telecommunications market.

Mr Ricketts said that it is possible the country will license a third mobile operator. He said the entry of a third mobile provider, "will be left to the Telecommunication Authority of Fiji (TAF) when they choose to do so". He said the TAF would be formed in the coming weeks.

Source: Fiji Times - WDR/Intelecon Regulatory News.