Following the recent introduction in Italy of the regulation on the offering of mobile services contained in EU Directive 96/2, on February 27, 1998 the Italian Parliament has enacted Law no. 29/1998 on the third operator of mobile communications on DCS 1800 technology. As known, under EU Directive 96/2, the number of licenses for mobile telecommunications systems may only be limited on the basis of essential requirements and in case adequate frequencies are not available.
The new Law assigns 10% of the frequency bands in the bandwidth range 1755 - 1785 MHz and 1850 - 1880 MHz to each licensee of public radiomobile GSM communication services Telecom Italia Mobile (TIM) and Omnitel, in order to enable such providers to compete on the digital communication DCS 1800.
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