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The fifth generation of mobile telecommunications (5G), which Greece moves a step closer to on Wednesday with the auction of available bandwidth, is based on higher frequencies and on a greater section of the frequency spectrum, allowing for data to reach a higher number of appliances compared to the past, and faster too.

Referring to ekathimerini's Sunday report titled "Claims upset Greek telecom market," Rewheel head Antonis Drossos noted that neither the study by his company nor Rewheel executives had ever mentioned "coordinated activity" between Vodafone and Wind in Greece.

The announcements by the Competition Commission and the study by Finnish company Rewheel regarding the high charges and "closed oligopoly" conditions in the Greek telecommunications market have generated major reactions both in the market and on a political level.

Greek broadband internet users have to wait from one to three weeks for connections to be repaired, according to data from the National Commission for Telecommunications and Post (EETT).

The government announced on Monday it had reached an agreement with Greece's main mobile network operators for free access to the virtual tools used for distance learning by schools during the pandemic. The deal with Cosmote, Vodafone and Wind goes into effect Tuesday.

Education Minister Niki Kerameus and Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis have secured zero-rating cellphone access to government platforms being used for distance learning by schools during the coronavirus pandemic, the Education Ministry announced on Monday.

Greece has seen an increase of at least 50 percent in internet use in recent days following the government's decision to restrict citizens' movements to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, according to officials at the Digital Governance Ministry who indicated however that telecommunications networks are handling the strain so far.

Turkey's telecommunication watchdog BTK has fined the country's three mobile operators, Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom, over their failure to provide communications services in the wake of the 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Istanbul in September.

Vodafone Greece announced on Monday it has scooped the exclusive rights to the premium TV content of US giant HBO for its VTV cable TV subscription service.

This 'defection' of HBO's content from Nova's service is the second major blow for the troubled satellite platform after it lost the rights to soccer's Champions League to Cosmote TV.

Vodafone Greece announced on Thursday that its cellphone network subscribers will have unlimited data usage for just 2 euros each throughout this month, after all three of Greece's major operators offered free internet access for a period of seven to 10 days over Christmas.