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===Award of licence=== [[Image:MeteorConsortium.png|right|thumb|Logo used by the '''Meteor''' Consortium in bidding for the third GSM license in 1998/99]]In 1998, the then [[Commission for Communications Regulation|Director of Telecommunications Regulation]] held a competition to award the third mobile telecommunications licence. Two companies submitted bids for the licence, [[Orange SA|Orange]], then controlled by [[Hutchinson Whampoa]], and Meteor Mobile Communications (consisting at that point of Western Wireless, RF Communications Limited, and TWG Ireland LLC). On 19 June 1998 it was announced that Meteor had been ranked first in the competition. However, Orange took legal action against the Director to prevent the licence being awarded. This legal action ultimately failed and on 29 June 2000 Meteor were finally issued with the third mobile telecommunications licence.
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