Orange loses

Friday 19 June 1998 23:02 BST

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Orange loses

THE MOBILE phone operator Orange has been beaten for a licence for the third Irish mobile phone system by Meteor, the government's regulator announced yesterday. Orange already has a franchise in Northern Ireland and had been regarded as the front-runner for the Republic licence. Separately a consortium involving Orange and the Dutch telecoms group KPN was yesterday awarded the third mobile licence in Belgium.

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