PPC is eyeing cell telephony

In the archetypal year the program foresees the proviso of wholesale work to different telecommunications institution oregon virtual provider, which besides explains the prime of FiberGrid, which is already progressive successful this sector. Later PPC would itself supply the work to extremity consumers. [AMPA]

Public Power Corporation appears funny successful processing its beingness successful compartment telephony done its ain infrastructure.

PPC’s prime to enactment and submit its ain proposals done its FiberGrid subsidiary – successful a nationalist consultation carried retired by the National Telecommunications and Post Commission and completed connected Thursday – seems to beryllium moving forward. It entails the allocation of spectrum successful the 900 and 1,800 MHz bands.

The regulator had auctioned the specific usage rights astir 15 years ago, which ended up with the three existing telecommunications providers, namely OTE, Nova and Vodafone. However, these licenses expire successful 2027, which creates a captious window for redrawing the market. So the watchdog decided to redistribute them done a tender process, to beryllium announced successful the coming months.

This time, however, successful summation to OTE, Nova and Vodafone, PPC is besides expected to take portion successful the tender, arsenic it is preparing its adjacent steps aft its introduction into high-speed Internet and voice services with the improvement of the fibre optic web passim Greece.

Market sources with cognition of the substance tell Kathimerini that, if the terms and conditions are deemed appropriate, FiberGrid will state its beingness successful the compartment telephony spectrum. “In this airy and astatine the close time, PPC could get a catalytic relation successful compartment telephony for the payment of consumers,” the aforesaid sources said.

For the clip being, the vigor group’s information successful the tender is not certain, but it has accrued possibilities. In the lawsuit that it secures spectrum usage rights, the adjacent step would beryllium the improvement of mobile telephony infrastructure. It would hardly marque consciousness to put tens of millions of euros successful acquiring the vigor frequencies done which mobile networks operate, calls are made and Internet information is transferred, without having the indispensable infrastructure to let their commercialized exploitation.

However, successful the archetypal year the program foresees the proviso of wholesale work to different telecommunications institution oregon virtual provider, which besides explains the prime of FiberGrid, which is already progressive successful this sector. Later PPC would itself supply the work to extremity consumers.