Iranian mobile News Media Review Wednesday 20 August 2008

• Call prank ban center for sms and mms field will be launched, Mobile Company of Iran managing director said.
Published in Keyhan , Donyay-e Eghtesad, Fanavaran, Asr Eghtesad, Afarinesh, Jahan Sanat, Poul and Jahan Eghtesad newspapers.

• Telecommunication minister deputy said that general invitation for mobile phone’s third nationwide operator tender will be announced in Government Week, referring to a period in September.
Published in Asr Resaneh, Khorasan, Abrar Eghtesadi, Poul and Eghtesad Pouya newspapers. Also in ISNA news agency.

• Mobile phone mms regulation for the operators was approved in telecommunication regulatory body, an official there said.
Published in Donyay-e Eghtesad, Eghtesad Pouya, and Abrar Eghtesadi newspapers.

• If the current negotiation between domestic mobile set manufacturers and any one of the world’s three major manufacturers of mobile sets is successful, all of the country’s mobile set manufacturers will join forces to manufacture a single brand, a mobile phone producer council member said.
Published in Iran, Jahan Eghtesad and Andishe No newspapers. 

• If conditions become favorable, all domestic mobile set manufacturers will join forces to produce a single domestic brand, the managing director of Emad Semiconductors said.
Published in Iran and Fanavaran newspapers.

• The head of the Mobile Company of Iran said that his companys subscribers will be able to get their bill transcripts and to connect and disconnect their lost or stolen sim cards using internet, the Fars news agency reported.
Published in Asr Resaneh newspaper.

• Iran mobile phone manufacturers are negotiating with several well known international brands to produce mobile sets in Iran in a joint venture, mine and industry ministry official said.
Published in Iran newspaper.

• To predict how many foreign companies would buy Telecommunications Company of Iran’s shares is no concern of the company, nor is any negotiation in that regard, TCI managing director said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

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