Increasing Interest in the Second GSM Network.

25.02.2000

If the deal for the Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC) is successfully finalized, the Dutch KPN will establish the second GSM network in co-operation with Nokia according to sources from KPN. KPN and Nokia have already reached a preliminary agreement. Germany's Hoermann Group will also be included as contractor of the project. At the same time, representatives of Canada's Telesystem International Wireless (TIW), witness that TIW is very interested in the bidding for the second GSM operator, provided that the current deal with OTE-KPN fails