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"The proposals received will be evaluated carefully against a set of criteria, namely, customer services and charges, technical quality, investment and finance, corporate structure, implementation schedule, level of performance bond, management and technical expertise, other benefits to the local telecommunications industry and economy, and research and quality of proposal. All the information supplied to us will be kept in strict confidence," Mr Arena said.
An inter-departmental working group has been formed to evaluate proposals and make recommendations to the Telecommunications Authority on which applicants to license.
Membership of the working group comprises representatives from the Office of the Telecommunications Authority, the Economic Services Branch, the Attorney General's Chambers and the Independent Commission Against Corruption.
A formal announcement of the successful applications for PCS is expected to be made around August this year.
In November last year, the Telecommunications Authority announced that up to six licences would be issued for the provision of PCS.
The decision was the outcome of an industry consultation process which indicated strong support for the granting of additional licences to enable the introduction of new services based on new and advanced mobile communication technologies and the allocation of more spectrum for such services.
End/Friday, March 24, 1995