OXFORD, United Kingdom—Having sold two third-generation (3G) licenses for 619 million euros (US$538.8 million) each last year, the French government looks unlikely to attract more than one interested party for the two additional licenses it plans to sell by the end of September 2002.
While it would appear that Bouygues Telecom, which operates France’s third-largest cell-phone company, would apply for a license, other likely contenders, such as T-Mobile, Telef