Twelve companies have submitted applications to the Communications Regulation Commission for participation in the procedures for establishing a fourth GSM operator in Bulgaria, the Commission said on Wednesday, which was the deadline for submission of documents.

The Commission also said that there might be more candidates as papers are still arriving by post.

9 of the candidates are companies registered in Bulgaria and 3 are foreign.

The Communications Regulation Commission will announce a tender for a limited 2х5 MHzspecter in a 1800 Mhz range license for mobile communications of the GSM type.

The commission is soon to announce the parameters of the tender.

The experience so far has shown that tenders with open bids lead result in higher prices, especially if there are a lot of bidders.

We remind that there were record high prices reached during the seven days of bidding in the tenders for the five for point to multipont licences with WiMax technologies.