TWO UMTS OPERATORS LIKELY TO DISAPPEAR IN GERMANY.

At least two of the six operators that that have secured UMTS third generation mobile telephony licences in Germany are likely to disappear, the market being much too small, according to the Chairman of the German of Telecommunications and new Media Federation(BITKOM). Speaking at a press conference in Berlin on February 14, Volker Jung suggested that in the longer term, only three or four operators are likely to survive. The German groups Deutsche Telekom and MobilCom, the British operators...