Sign up to The Irish Times Archive (1859 - 2008)My Account »

Mon 12 Dec 2002Mobile phone competition was put on hold after Brussels letterThe intervention of the European Commission held up the competition for the second mobile phone licence. Colm Keena reportsWhen the then minister for transport, energy and communications, Mr Michael Lowry, announced the competition for the State's second mobile phone licence in early 1995, he said the price of the licence would be set by the market.