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2010-10-07

UAE's Etisalat to enter Iraqi market

بغداد ( إيبا ).. BAGHDAD (Iba) ..

Detect and Communications Minister Farouk Abdel-Kader, the UAE's Etisalat is one of eight companies currently competing on the fourth mobile phone license in Iraq, according to The National reported.

"Abdel-Qader, the ministry invited eight companies: MTN, Etisalat, and Turkcell, Vodafone, Verizon, France Telecom, to make their bids for the license.

He noted that the government seeks to end this subject by the first quarter of next year, and it does not intend to sell the license fully in the fourth auction, but looking for a communications company in revenue sharing so that the reserves are increased by 30%.

According to the Minister of Communications, the Ministry will not stand in the face of telecommunications companies if they will buy the operations of Zain in Iraq.

The connections tried to enter the Iraqi telecommunications market two years ago through talks with the company set up by Cork Telecom in the north of Iraq, but those talks failed.

It should be noted that Mohammed Omran, Chairman of Etisalat, said earlier that the company is interested in the telecommunications market in Iraq.

It is noteworthy that the government announced earlier that it would give the Iraqi Ministry of Communications license provides a fourth third-generation services, but the Communications Commission of Iraq has not yet issued the license.

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