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On December 18th France's telecoms regulator awarded a new mobile licence to Iliad, an upstart telecoms firm, even though Mr Sarkozy had publicly voiced misgivings.
Vodafone's parent, Racal Electronics, bid for and won the only private-sector mobile licence in 1982, the other licence going to partially privatised British Telecommunications BTT).
Brandishing this old friendship, the company shrugs off the recent shenanigans over the new mobile licence, and the continuing problem of high interconnection fees.
BT was also a disappointed bidder for the third Italian mobile licence; its enthusiasm for the fourth licence has been tempered by the limited spectrum that is on offer.
After years of deliberation and fierce opposition from the big three Orange, owned by the former monopoly, France Telecom; SFR, part of Vivendi, a media giant; and Bouygues Telecom, part of a conglomerate which also part-owns TF1 the government invited bids for a fourth mobile licence on August 1st.
Davis tried to get Osborne to acknowledge that the budget deficit would have risen had it not been for the decision to include £3.5bn of anticipated fourth generation mobile licence sale receipts, - but the chancellor repeatedly said it was not possible to pull out one item from the budget forecasts in that way, arguing it was a "red herring to do so".
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The NYPD has used mobile licence-plate readers to build a database of 16m licence plates, along with locations where the car was spotted".
The telecoms market is in turmoil, as it transpires that dozens of mobile licences were improperly issued.
BT's debt has ballooned following the huge cost of new mobile licences, acquisitions and capital investment.
IN 2001 MTN, a fledgling telecoms company from South Africa, paid $285m for one of four mobile licences sold at auction by the government of Nigeria.
In addition, the Japanese government has recently issued three new mobile licences, one of them to Softbank, to make the market more competitive.
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