Three Bulgarian telcos win 5G frequency licences at tender License: Creative Commons CC0 SOFIA (Bulgaria), April 6 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's communications regulator said on Tuesday it awarded 20-year 5G frequency licences with national coverage to the three main telecommunication companies operating in the country in a tender that fetched 13.4 million levs ($8.1 million/6.8 million euro). A1 Bulgaria, a unit of A1 Telekom Austria Group, received a licence for using frequencies in the 3600-3700 MHz spectrum for which it proposed to pay a one-off fee of 4.7 million levs, the Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) said in a statement. Bulgarian Telecommunications Company (BTC), owned by Dutch-registered United Group and operating under the Vivacom brand, won a licence for the 3700-3800 Mhz band with a proce offer of 4.6 million levs.