VIEW: Mobile News in Iranian Mass Media, Tuesday, April 15, 2008

• Hamrah Aval GPRS launch time not clear
• All Hamrah Aval SIM prices down
• Delays in MMS, GPRS offer
• Hamrah Aval service rates drop
• Culture of mobile usage in schools needs to form
• Finding equivalents for Latin mobile terms not on agenda
• “A result full of golden stars!”
• “1.5 rial Hamrah Aval SIM; after privatization”

Articles Digest:
• In an interview with MOBNA, Senior Advisor of RCRO said about a decrease in mobile service rates by the virtue of the approvals made in the 39th session of RCRO commission. This is the major mobile news item publisdhed today in Jahane Eghtesad, Donyay-e Eghtesad, Sobh-e Eghtesad, Abrar-e Eghtesadi, Fanavaran, Sarmayeh and Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• “Students are not permitted to use their mobile phones in the school and should turn their devices off”, said Educations Deputy Minister. This was published today in Andishe-ye No, Arman, Asrar, Farhang-e Ashti, Ghods, Siasat-e Rouz.
• Despite it was expected that Hamrah Aval, the first mobile operator in Iran, would offer GPRS service to its subscribers from the beginning of this year, TCI Chairman said it is not clear when they are going to offer this service, wrote MOBNA. This was published today in Ebtekar, Jahan-e Sanat, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Donya-ye Eghtesad and Fanavaran dailies.
• The prices of all Hamrah Aval SIM cards decline as the market of these SIM cards have been getting dull, wrote MOBNA. This was published today in Jahan-e Sanat, Sarmayeh, Donya-ye Eghtesad and Asr-e Eghtesad dailies.
• “TCI is not responsible for delays in offering its value-added services but the main reason is foreign companies’ negligence by not transporting the purchased equipments”, said TCI Chairman in an interview with CITNA. This was published today in Donya-ye Eghtesad, Abrar-e Eghtesadi and Sobh-e Eghtesad dailies.
• “The cultural authorities of society should take care of fostering culture about proper usage of mobile phones in the school”, said an IT expert at Educations Ministry in an interview with MOBNA.
• “Finding equivalents for Latin mobile-related terms and expressions should be put on Persian Academy”, said the major researcher of Telecom Team at Persian Academy in an interview with MOBNA.
• MOBNA yesterday published an article titled “A result full of golden stars” written by Satar Shakiba, that discusses in detail MCI officials statements about the country’s mobile network.
• Fanavaran daily yesterday published a news item titled “Hamrah Aval 1.5m rial SIM; after privatization” that quotes TCI CEO as saying the prices of Hamrah Aval SIM cards will decline if the company is privatized.
• Ghods daily today published a news item titled “Hamrah Aval to Irancell call rates rise” that quotes Public Relations of Telecom Company of Khorasan Razavi Province as saying the rates of those voice calls made by Hamrah Aval subscribers to the destination of an Irancell subscriber is 937 rial per a minute.
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