Late in 2021, the Communications Commission announced that an auction would be announced for the implementation of the 5G network in 2022. In addition, the auction price of the license would be offered at a discount. Today, Vakhtang Abashidze, a member of the Communications Commission, said that the commission is preparing to make a decision regarding the announcement of the auction, but for this, it is necessary to finish the preparatory works of the auction.
"We are preparing an auction, we have to make an appropriate decision and announce it. We expect this to happen in the next few months. Our wish is to do it as quickly as possible so that the auction can start as soon as possible," said Abashidze.
Gia Jokhtaberidze, the founder of Georgia's largest mobile operator Magticom, considers the introduction of 5G premature, who said in March that this network will be unprofitable in the Georgian reality today due to its capital capacity.
According to the data of the Communications Commission, as of 2022, 3.3 million subscribers used the mobile Internet in Georgia, which is 13% more than the previous year. These subscribers used 32 petabytes of the internet in a month, which was 42% more than last year.
