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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9461

5 July 2007
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Bouygues Telecom's appeal rejected - Court rules that issuing of 3G licences by France is in line with Community law

Luxembourg, 04/07/2007 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling returned on Wednesday 4 July (case T-475/04), the Court of First Instance Tribunal ruled that the French state did not infringe the EC Treaty in its method for the issuing of third generation mobile telephone communication licences.

In 2000, the French government attracted only two candidates to roll out the mobile telephone and wireless systems (UMTS, Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) of the third generation (also known as 3G)....

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