Iranian mobile News Media Review Saturday 20 September 2008

• Dubai Islamic Bank has been presented as third mobile phone operator foreign consultant.
Published in Abrar, Jahan Eghtesad, Poul, Fanavaran, Karoon, Donyay-e Eghtesad, Abrar Eghtesadi and Asr Eghtesad newspapers.

• Mobile Company of Iran will hold an auction to buy equipments of Billing Centers back up system from domestic manufacturers.
Published in Abrar Eghtesadi and Jahan Eghtesad newspapers. Also in Mobna and Hamna news agencies.

• Wimax (high speed access services) tender manager said that according to the scheduled plan Wimax winners certifications will be issued in two months later (around 21 November).
Published in Abrar Eghtesadi, Tafahom and Eghtesad Pouya newspapers.

• Telecommunication minister said that third mobile phone operator tender winner will be determined around 21 December.
Published in Etelaat newspapers and ISNA news agency.

• Most participants in Wimax tender and interested parties in investment in this technology want that this tender deadline (21 September) to be extended.  
Published in Jahan Eghtesad and Fanavaran newspapers.

• Ten percent mobile sets import tariff which it is planned to be decreed has been forgotten and the tariff will not decline, deputy commerce minister said.
Published in Fanavaran newspaper.

• According to new privatization law it is planned than Mobile Company of Iran to sell its shares in bourse gradually and the company will be privatized completely by two years later, a MCI official said.
Published in Fanavaran newspaper.

• First third mobile phone operator conference aiming at familiarizing with third operator tender and encouraging domestic and foreign investors will be held on 23 September.
Published in Tafahom newspaper.

• Despite the availability of the third mobile phone operators hardware infrastructure in Iran, but it still faces some obstacles, an economic expert said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• Regulating Mobile Banking laws and supporting it is very poor in country just like other services which are based on new technologies, a lawyer said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• Sim cards offered by mobile phone operators lack quality, an economic expert said.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• Buyers of third mobile phone operator tender documents pledged Radio Communication & Regulation Organization.
Published in Hamna news agency.

• The Malaysian TMI and the Russian Megafon will attend in international telecommunication conference, Telecommunication Company announced.
Published in Fanavaran newspaper and Asr Ertebat weekly magazine.

• Samsung managers in Iran announced their tendency to take control of Iran mobile phone market.
Published in Asr Ertebat and Elm Rouz weekly magazines.
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