The Bulgarian company Di Vi Bi Ti (DVBT) has appealed directly to the European Commission against the country’s controversial DTT licensing process.
According to Trud, this follows last week’s rejection of DTVB’s appeal to the Bulgarian Supreme Court (SAC) over the award of the public service multiplex to the Latvian company Hannu Pro even though the prosecutor argued that the competition organised by the Commission for Communications Regulation (CRC) was flawed.
The SAC’s decision can only be appealed to the EC, which is itself preparing to take legal action against Bulgaria over the licence awards, which were made to Slovakia’s Towercom (two multiplexes) and Hannu Pro (four multiplexes) in 2009.
DVBT argues that a seventh multiplex, which Bulgaria has now said it will launch, would be at a disadvantage as it would make its debut after the first six.
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