PPC urges Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission to secure spectrum for 5G network expansion

Public Power Corporation (PPC) whitethorn importune that it is not readying to participate the retail mobile telephony market, but it submitted a text to the nationalist consultation of the Hellenic Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) intelligibly indicating that it is examining the improvement of 5G infrastructure done its subsidiary DEI FiberGrid.

Moreover, it explained that this determination could strengthen contention and exert downward unit connected prices while encouraging greater concern successful the Greek mobile communications market.

The contented has been astatine the centre of marketplace discussions implicit the past days, pursuing an nonfiction published by Naftemporiki that PPC had participated successful the EETT nationalist consultation concerning the reallocation of spectrum successful the 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz bands. However, during the presumption of the group’s first-quarter results, PPC Chairman and CEO Giorgos Stassis stated successful effect to analysts’ questions that “PPC does not mean to participate the retail mobile telephony market”.

As helium explained, FiberGrid is exploring the anticipation of wireless connectivity arsenic a complementary λύση to its FTTH network, while leaving unfastened the question of whether the radical will ultimately enactment successful the spectrum auction.

However, successful the papers submitted by PPC, the radical appears explicit regarding its intentions. As stated successful the text, “the PPC Group intends to enactment successful the upcoming spectrum grant process”, with the purpose of “developing caller 5G infrastructure successful Greece done its subsidiary, DEI FiberGrid”.

The institution presents FiberGrid’s introduction into mobile communications arsenic a mechanics for strengthening competition. It stated that “the imaginable introduction of a caller mobile web relation could make important benefits for consumers and the integer economy”, while arguing that “the beingness of an further mobile web relation with proprietary infrastructure strengthens competition, improves work prime and operates to the payment of consumers”.

PPC places peculiar accent connected the statement that accrued contention leads to amended services and greater concern successful networks. As it noted, planetary acquisition shows that the introduction of caller players into telecommunications markets is associated with accrued concern and improved work prime for users.

The institution besides argues that a akin effect has already been observed successful the fibre-to-the-home and concern (FTTH) market. As it stated, “the accrued infrastructure contention triggered by FiberGrid’s introduction is already benefiting consumers done little retail prices for fibre broadband services”. It besides noted that “across the afloat scope of speed tiers, PPC offers the lowest prices successful the market”.

In the aforesaid document, published connected the EETT website, PPC straight links its FTTH acquisition with the imaginable improvement of a mobile network. As it stated, “with the due spectrum, FiberGrid tin support the improvement of mobile communications infrastructure successful Greece”, while “building connected its successful track grounds successful fibre infrastructure, it seeks to presume a akin relation successful the improvement of mobile communications infrastructure”.

PPC further stated that FiberGrid “could lend to the improvement of a high-performance mobile communications infrastructure susceptible of supporting the semipermanent objectives of Greece’s integer economy”, while simultaneously “placing unit connected incumbent mobile operators to trim prices and summation concern successful their networks”.

A important portion of the company’s involution concerns the EETT spectrum allocation model. PPC stated that “the existent spectrum grant proposals look chiefly focused connected reallocating spectrum to existing licence holders”. At the aforesaid time, it argues that “the auction model should besides guarantee that credible caller entrants such arsenic FiberGrid person a realistic accidental to participate the market”.

The institution underlined that “international acquisition demonstrates that well-designed spectrum grant procedures tin facilitate marketplace introduction by caller players without undermining auction ratio oregon spectrum utilisation”. For this reason, it explained that its involution “focuses connected however the upcoming grant process could beryllium structured successful a way that supports the imaginable introduction of a caller relation while maintaining an effectual and competitory allocation process”.

According to PPC, “a bid of adjustments to the spectrum allocation model and licence terms” is required successful bid “to guarantee that caller entrants tin get a viable spectrum portfolio and make a competitory mobile communications network”.

Specifically, the institution is requesting “new affable provisions”, including:

“spectrum preservation for the caller entrant”,
“national roaming under fair, tenable and non-discriminatory terms”,
“proportionate sum obligations”, and
“indefinite-duration licences”.
At the aforesaid time, it proposes a specific “spectrum preservation for caller bidders”, requesting:

• “2×10 MHz successful the 900 MHz band”,
• “2×20 MHz successful the 1,800 MHz band”, and
• “40 MHz successful the 2,600 MHz TDD band”.

PPC besides seeks to substantiate its statement that the Greek mobile marketplace lags down different European markets. As the institution stated, “over the past decade, mobile telephony prices successful Greece person accrued by astir 30%”, whereas successful the remainder of Europe they “have broadly remained stable successful nominal terms”.

In parallel, it noted that “average mobile download speeds successful Greece stood astatine 103 Mbps successful the 4th fourth of 2025”, beneath the EU-27+ mean of “122 Mbps”. According to the company, “this methodology reflects the existent day-to-day user acquisition connected mobile networks”.

PPC stated  that “greater contention successful the wholesale marketplace could play a important relation successful improving these outcomes”. According to the company, “FiberGrid’s introduction into the marketplace would lend substantially to this nonsubjective by accelerating concern successful next-generation mobile infrastructure”, while besides “placing unit connected incumbent mobile operators to trim prices and summation concern successful their networks”.