The European Commission opened, on Monday 21 September, an in-depth investigation to determine whether the allocation by the Polish authorities of a frequency block for the provision of 4G services to Sferia S.A. (‘Sferia’) is in line with EU State Aid rules.
Sferia is a Polish telecommunications operator.
The Commission received complaints from a number of competing telecoms operators, alleging that, in 2013, the Polish authorities allocated a frequency block from the 800MHz ‘digital...