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Section 7
Announcing that a licence is available for application
The Government shall announce that a licence is available for application when frequencies
that are technically appropriate and appropriate for efficient frequency use become available
for the purposes of telecommunications subject to a licence in accordance with a frequency
allocation plan approved in a decree laid down pursuant to Section 95(3)(1).
A licence granted by Ficora, however, is not announced to be available for application.
Section 8
Licencing procedure
The Government grants licences for telecommunications operations in the meaning of
section 6(1) and for public authority network operations in the meaning of section 6(2) free of
charge as laid down in section 10.
If new frequencies that are technically appropriate and appropriate for efficient frequency
use are added to public telecommunications in a mobile network, the Government may decide
on granting a licence by auction as laid down in Section 11.
Section 9
Granting a telecommunications licence for temporary operation
A licence to provide a network service in a digital terrestrial mass communications network
is granted by Ficora, if the operations last no more than three months and if the radiation
power of the transmitter does not exceed two kilowatt.
Ficora shall grant the licence for operations referred to in subsection 1 if radio frequencies
can be allocated for the operations and there is no justified reason to suspect the applicant of
violating the provisions of this Act.
Ficora may grant a new licence for operations referred to in subsection 1 to the same
operator for areas with overlap of coverage, even partial overlap, at the earliest two months
from expiry of the previous licence.
Section 10
Issuing licences by comparative procedure
A licence shall be granted if:
1) the applicant has sufficient economic resources to meet the network operator obligations;
and
2) the licencing authority has no justifiable reason to suspect that the applicant will violate
the provisions of this Act; and
3) the licencing authority does not have weighty reasons to suspect that granting a licence to
the applicant would apparently risk national security.
A licence for providing network service in a public authority network shall be granted if the
applicant, in addition to fulfilling the requirements referred to in subsection 1, has the ability
and professional skills needed in regard to the special nature of the operation.