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The reason for this situation is the lengthy discussion between Centuria and the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on network sharing in Latvia.
“Our plan was to actively start work on radio network sharing this year in order to fully complete the unified radio access network by the end of 2023, which would be of great benefit to mobile users in Latvia. Unfortunately, there are currently concerns that European Commission the call to join forces in building infrastructure in Latvia may go unheard. The specific date of commencement of services depends on the time of receipt of PUC permits and approvals, but we hope that this permission will be granted, and in Latvia, as in many other European countries, network sharing will be a common practice. By allowing infrastructure sharing, 5G It will be possible to implement the 5G network at least two years earlier than if each operator expanded the 5G network independently, “comments Ritvars Krievs, Chairman of the Board of Centuria.
The European Commission has developed a European Electronic Communications Code (Directive), which supports network sharing, he adds. The Directive provides that network infrastructure sharing, including spectrum sharing, can allow more efficient and effective use of spectrum and ensure the rapid deployment of networks, especially in sparsely populated areas.
Ritvars Krievs points out that nowadays network sharing is already a fairly common practice – in total there are currently about 100 such agreements in the world, including 40 of them in Europe. For example, Tele2 and Telia (Sweden), “Telia” and “Telenor” (Norway), “Orange” a “T-Mobile” (Poland), DNA and Telia (Finland), “SFR” a “Bouyugues Telecom” (In France), “Vodafone” a “Nova” (Iceland), “T-Mobile” a “O2” (Germany), “Vodafone” and “Orange” (Great Britain) u.c.
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