11.   Stet has also bid for digital cellular licenses in both Poland and the Czech Republic.

12.   Stet, meanwhile, is bidding with TeleDanmark AS of Denmark and Airtouch Communications for a Polish cellular license.

13.   The FCC plans to begin the auction in December, selling off licenses that will roughly equal the capacity of existing cellular licenses.

14.   The Ministry of Communications said it will wait for other court disputes over the cellular licenses to be judged before opening the envelope.

15.   Venezuela has made granting new cellular licenses a top priority, especially because of complaints about the two companies providing service now.

16.   Venezuela has made the granting of new cellular licenses a top priority, especially because of complaints about the two companies providing service now.

17.   The auction of the cellular licenses mark the first step in the dismantling of the state-held monopoly on telecommunications.

18.   The government will begin granting cellular licenses to other companies in December, Prime Minister Owen Arthur said.

19.   The new cellular licenses were originally scheduled to be awarded late last year.