Iranian mobile News Media Review Sunday 14 September 2008

• Iran ranks seventeenth among 20 countries with the highest number of internet users, Internet World States figure shows.
Published in Mobna, ILNA, ISNA, Fars, Borna and Sitna news agencies. Also in Sobh Eghtesad, Saheb Ghalam, Abrar Eghtesadi, Tafahom, Jam-e Jam, Karoon, Asrar, Jomhouri, Asr Eghtesad, Hamshahri and Siyasat Rouz newspapers.

• Tenth Mobile Company of Iran catchy mobile phone numbers auction will be held on 21 September, a MCI official said.
Published in Saheb Ghalam, Abrar, Jomhouri and Fanavaran newspapers.

• Time for offering landline sms service has not determined yet and provincial telecommunication companies will provide based on their own circumstances, telecommunication company managing director said.
Published in Afarinesh newspaper.

• First mobile phone operator (MCI) has offered GPRS service in Tehran and it is planned to provide an announcement to attract a million subscribers to test this service.
Published in Arman newspaper.

• Third mobile phone operator tender manager announced that selling tender documents have been started as of 13 September and will continue until three weeks.
Published in Asr Eghtesad newspaper.

• Mobile phone users should respect social and moral norms when making a call by mobile phone, a sociologist said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• Deleting telecommunications subsidy in Iran after the implementation of the “economic change program” needs more thought. Omitting telecommunication subsidy will bring serious problems since services fees will increase,” an economic expert said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• More than 50 percent of Iranian consumers buy mobile sets with an average price between 1.5 million to 2.5 million rials (159 to 265 dollars).
Published in Mobna news agency.

• Although so far 18,000 Mobile Company of Iran catchy mobile phone numbers have been offered in nine auctions, but only around 3,000 numbers have been sold.
Published in Mobna news agency

• Despite some subscribers` belief that it is impossible to trace prank calls made through prepaid sim cards, a lawyer believes there is a law in that regard.
Published in Mobna news agency

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