Iranian mobile News Media Review Tuesday 28 October 2008

• Telecommunication Infrastructure Company announced that information technology projects budget annually is 10 billion rials and in current Iranian year (ending March 2009) the sum has been allocated for such projects.
Published in ISNA news agency, also in Sarmaye, Abrar Eghtesadi, Khabar and Fanavaran newspapers.   

• Telecommunication Infrastructure Company announced that it transferred video conference network services to Tehran Telecommunication Company.
Published in ILNA news agency, also in Jahan Sanat and Fanavaran newspapers. 

• Ertebate Moshtarake Shahr Company (site sharing) announced that it will decorate common BTS antennas in Tehran.
Published in Mobna news agency, also in Abrar Eghtesadi and Donyay-e Eghtesad newspapers.

• Second operator Irancells mms (multi media messaging) service regulation and commitments for users have been announced.
Published in Mobna, Fars and SITNA news agencies, also in Poul and Arman newspapers.

• Iran Telecommunication Manufacturing Company announced that with current problems for domestic mobile set manufacturing such as tariff politics and smuggled set import, mobile set production is not economically viable.
Published in SITNA news agency, also in  Poul and Arman newspapers.

• Some Mobile Company of Irans sim cards should be changed in order to use mms (multi media messaging) and GPRS services, a MCI official said.
Published in Mobna news agency, also in Sobh Eghtesad and Donyay-e Eghtesad newspaper.

• Mobile phone’s limitation in internet connection is mainly due to the ministry of Information and Communication Technology not providing the required facilities, parliament’s head of telecommunication committee said.
Published in Mobna news agency, also in Abrar Eghtesadi newspaper.

• Telefon-e Hamrah monthly, in its latest issue 44th, has made a polemical suggestion to the country’s telecom authorities in its leading article.
Published in Mobna news agency, also in Eghtesad Pouya newspaper.

• A psychologist believes that those who use mobile set more than usual act more hastily and more nervous than other users.
Published in Mobna news agency, also in Khorshid newspaper.

• Mobile Company of Irans 0912 sim card low trading which began recently continues in most parts of Tehran.
  Published in Mobna news agency, also in Sarmaye newspaper.

• An expert believes that launching mobile set standard evaluation labs is a good way to face poor smuggled handsets import.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• There will be 3 Next Generation Networking training courses in Iran in the current month by China’s ZTE Company for Iranian directors and experts, dean of Post and Telecommunication Faculty announced.
Published in Mobna, Fars and ILNA news agencies.

• Mobile Company of Iran prepaid and postpaid subscribers numbers have reached to 27.4 million.
Published in Hamna news agency.

• World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly 2008 (WTSA-08) is being held in “Johannesburg, South Africa” and two groups from Iran Telecommunication company and information technology and communication ministry attended in it.
Published in Hamna news agency.

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