Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Court annuls Nextel trunking authorization

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2002 16:45:11 -0500

Court annuls Nextel trunking authorization

November 22, 2002 3:15pm

A Chilean appeals court has ruled that trunking operator Nextel Chile cannot offer digital
trunking services,
canceling authorization given by the communications ministry in May, Chilean daily
Estrategia reported.

The court decided that Nextel cannot offer
digital trunking services unless it won a mobile
telephony concession through public bidding
process, upholding arguments submitted by
mobile operators Entel PCS and Smartcom
PCS in an appeal of a previous ruling. The
appeal was the mobile operators' last chance
to thwart Nextel, which has the support of the
telecoms regulator Subtel and has won three
earlier cases brought by rivals over the last two
years. Nextel has the right to appeal the latest
ruling.

The digital trunking concessions remain intact,
a source close to Nextel told BNamericas,
suggesting the paper had misinterpreted the
ruling.

Nextel already offers analog trunking service to
some 7,000 users in the regions covering the capital Santiago and principal port
Valparaiso, and planned to
launch digital service through subsidiaries Centennial and Multikom.

Bankrupt parent company NII Holdings - which also has operations in the Philippines,
Argentina, Peru,
Brazil and Mexico - has invested US$30mn in Nextel Chile.

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