Poland has been running an auction of mobile spectrum for more than seven months, but the process may finally come to an end in the coming weeks following government intervention.
The state will allow regulatory body the Office of Electronic Communications (UKE) to speed up the sale by setting a deadline for its conclusion, Reuters reported on Thursday.
The auction could be brought to a close in the first 10 days of October, the newswire quoted the head of Poland’s Ministry of Administration and Digitisation, Andrzej Halicki, as saying.
He added that facilitating the distribution of the spectrum is in the best interests of the population.
Poland is selling off spectrum in the 800 MHz and 2.6 GHz bands.
On Thursday bidding had reached 7.6 billion zloty (€1.8 billion), according to the UKE.
The bulk of the spend is in the 800 MHz band, which accounts for almost PLN7.1 billion of the total.
The gove rnment initially aimed to raise upwards of PLN1.6 billion, Bloomberg reported at the start of the year, although analysts predicted the final total would come in at around twice that amount.
