Serbia’s regime in campaign against SBB; MP’s untruths

NEWS 06.12.202120:45 0 komentara
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A United Group legal advisor said on Monday that Aleksandra Tomic, the head of Serbia’s Parliamentary Commission for Finances and an MP of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS), claims about the SBB company and its owner the United Group's attempts to forcibly enter the country’s mobile telephony market were untrue and represented the state’s campaign against the SBB's participation in the forthcoming 5G auction.

Tomic even could not get the right place where the United Group was registered. She said it was registered in the Virgin Islands instead of the Netherlands.

She added that SBB, as a part of the United Group, was also registered in Slovenia.

„They don’t pay tax as an employer but deal with the re-broadcasting,” Tomic said.

The United Group denied all Tomic’s claims, and Milos Stojkovic, a legal advisor, said, “We even heard that SBB is registered in Slovenia or somewhere else outside Serbia, despite all official records showing SBB as Serbia’s company since its foundation in September 2000.”

He added that SBB filled in the Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services, RATEL, questionary for the 5G auction and honoured the Telecommunication Ministry’s procedure.

“We haven’t heard much about a possibility of the fourth mobile operator in Serbia’s market. We heard those unfounded qualifications about SBB trying to enter the market forcibly, despite the company following the regular procedure on joining the mobile telephony market,” in Serbia, Stojkovic said.

In October, Telecommunication Minister Tatjana Matic said that three mobile operators were enough for Serbia and that there was no room for the fourth one.

However, Milojko Arsic, a Belgrade Economic Faculty professor, said the market laws did not support such a view.

“Certainly, the fourth operator could not worsen, but likely improve the quality of services, adding some new ones and, maybe, lower prices,” he said.

According to him, the Government might have other aims with the 5G network.

“It’s possible that they want to control the media sphere in Serbia through telecommunications. That is one of the possible motives to prevent the entry of new operators which are out of their control,” Arsic said.

Most South-eastern countries have introduced the 5G network, which is four times faster than 4G. It can be implemented in controlling industrial processes, medicine, education, and developing smart cities, impossible without the 5G network.

SBB is a part of the United Group, as is N1.

 

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