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Wed 04 Apr 2003Team to assess mobile bids did not follow its own plan
The team that selected the winner of the 1995 mobile-phone licence competition did not follow the evaluation model it set out for itself. Also it appeared that the minister at the time, Mr Michael Lowry, "intervened in what was supposed to be a sealed process", counsel for the Moriarty tribunal said yesterday, writes Colm Keena
Mr Jerry Healy SC said that a major element of the evaluation model was dropped. This element had put the eventual winner, Esat Digifone, in third place and the eventual second-ranked bid, Persona, in first place.
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