MCI lagging behind current budget

MCI’s no of subscribers in the previous year was 24,509,714, which his year has risen to 28m indicating the operator has not been successful in attracting new subscribers as had planned.
Analysts believe this is mainly as a result of new operators from the private sector coming on the scene.
The operator had earlier cut the price of its prepaid sim card from 340,000 rials to 120,000 rials in an effort to win more subscribers.
Last year the operator sold over 9 million sim cards, of which around 8.147 million were prepaid.
Experts predict that next year, when Third operator comes to the fore and IranCell and Taliya already active, MCI’s sale of postpaid sim cards will fall and customers will mainly opt for prepaid sim cards.

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