VIEW: Mobile News in Iranian Mass Media, Wednesday, May 07, 2008

• MCI sells 5,000 round mobile numbers to date
• No need to increase SMS centers
• Highway mobile overshoots under scrutiny
• Foreign advisors to be assigned if third operator tender documents finalized
• SIM cards delivery time should be lessen to one week
• IR-TCI SIM cards deactivation wrong
• “Our ranking? one to the last”
• Over 122,000 SIM cards delivery in Khorasan Razavi
• Mobile bills summary sent to Hamrah Aval subscribers
• TCI not allowed to gain profit from subscriber’s deposits
• Mobile usage needs education, culture
• Yazd mobile phone users top landline users
• “Deposits or shares?”
• “Ups and downs in offering TCI to bourse”
• “Subscribers’ deposits not change into shares”
• “TCI and banks to be privatized by Junne”
• “Dezful BTS site launched”
• A subscriber’s criticism

Articles Digest:
• Megaphone, a Russian mobile carrier, is to open an authorized agency in Iran, said Communications Minister Public Relations. This was the major mobile news item published today in the Iranian mass media, including Iran, Fanavaran, Sobh-e Eghtesad, Asr-e Eghtesad, Eghtesad-e Pouya, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Poul, Siasat-e Rouz, Kaenat, Arman, Jahan-e Sanat, Donya-ye Eghtesad and Abrar-e Eghtesadi and Fars, ISNA, BORNA and HAMNA news agencies.
• In an interview with ISNA, Communications Minister revealed more details about delay in Hamrah Aval GPRS service. “Hamrah Aval mobile network is 2G (second generation of mobile network) that utilized different equipments and vendors since 1994, and now with more than 25 million subscribers, it needs to improve its equipments”, he added. This was published today in Hamshahri, Sobh-e Eghtesad, Aftab-e Yazd, Hadaf-o Eghtesad, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Kaenat, Saheb Qalam, Afarinesh and Khabar dailies.
• Head of Trades Commission at MCI said in an interview with MOBNA that almost 5,000 of 16,000 Hamrah Aval round postpaid mobile numbers had been sold in the auction. This was published today in Sobh-e Eghtesad, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Jahan-e Sanat, Donya-ye Eghtesad and Abrar-e Eghtesadi dailies.
• Deputy Head for supervision and management at MCI said in an interview with CITNA that there are enough SMS centers of MCI, so increase in its numbers is needless. This was published today in Fanavaran, Jahan-e Eghtesad and Donya-ye Eghtesad dailies.
• General Manager for optimization at MCI said in an interview with ISNA that existence of overshoot sites which disrupt mobile network is the major problem of mobile network in the highways. This was published today in Fanavaran and Eghtesad-e Pouya dailies.
• Communications Deputy Minister for research and international affairs said in an interview with MOBNA that foreign advisors for the third mobile operators would be appointed after finalization of the projects’ documents. This was published today in Fanavaran and Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• Chief Executive of Telecom Company of Qazvin Province said installation of mobile stations to cover more districts of Qazvin Province has started since this year, wrote MOBNA. This was published today in Fanavaran and Kar-o Kargar dailies.
• Public Relations General Manager of MCI said in an interview with CITNA there is no reason for deactivation of IR-TCI SIM cards, which has no difference with IR-MCI SIM cards. This was published today in Sobh-e Eghtesad and Donya-ye Eghtesad dailies.
• MOBNA yesterday published an article titled “Our ranking? One to the last” that written by Behrouz Hosseini that discusses in detail Iran’s standing in the world mobile phone rankings. This was published today in Jahan-e Eghtesad daily.
• A number of 122,600 prepaid SIM cards will be soon delivered to applicants residing in Khorasan Razavi, said Public Relations of Telecom Company of Khorasan Razavi. This was published today in Farhang-e Ashti daily.
• MCI Deputy for marketing and subscribers affairs said in an interview with ISNA that a text message containing the subscribers bills summary from the next term. This was published today in Iran daily. This had been published yesterday in 16 dailies.
• Although TCI does not intend to pay the profit it gained from the deposits of its over 40 million subscribers after privatization, an attorney believes that TCI is not allowed to gain profit from subscribers’ deposits, according to Article 617 of Civil Code.
• A professor of communications said in an interview with MOBNA that the authorities should plan for education and developing culture of mobile usage in out country.
• Chief Executive of Telecom Company of Yazd Province said in an interview with MOBNA that the mobile penetration rate in the province exceeds landline penetration rate. This was published today in ISCA News and HAMNA news agencies.
• MOBNA yesterday published an article titled “Deposits or shares?” that discusses in detail uncertain future of 40 trillion-rial deposits of subscribers.
• Hamshahri daily today published a news item titled “Ups and downs in offering TCI to bourse” that discusses in detail TCI entry to the stock exchange by June 11 and TCI CEO’ statement on the status of the company’s shares.
• Sarmayeh daily today published an article titled “Subscribers’ deposits not change into shares” that discusses in detail the privatization of TCI and officials statements.
• Jahan-e Sanat daily also published another article titled “TCI and banks to be privatized by June” that discusses in detail the statements made by Head of Privatization Organization on TCI and banks’ entry into the stock exchange.
• Resalat daily today published an article titled “BTS site opened in Dezfoul” that discusses in detail the operations of the second telecom project in Dezfoul since this year.
• Khorasan daily today published a subscriber’s criticism about pricing Persian SMS.
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