Iranian mobile News Media Review Thursday 7 August 2008

• Iran Telecommunication Manufacturing Company managing director said that the company inked a 2 trillion rials (210 million dollars) contract with provinces centers.
Published in Keyhan, Iran, Farhang Ashti, Arman and Abrar Eghtesadi newspapers.

• Mobile sets import tariff will not be decreased and there is no inclination to do it, commerce minister deputy said.
Published in Fanavaran and Abrar Eghtesadi newspapers.

• The increase in the Telecommunication Company of Iran capital has been handed over to Tehran Bourse as the last demand by them on Sunday 3 August, the TCI official said.
Published in Kargozaran and Abrar Eghtesadi newspapers. Also in ISNA, Mobna and Fars news agencies.

• Mobile phone operators need special equipments for managing multi media messaging (mms) services, a telecommunication regulatory body said
Published in Eghtesad Pouya newspaper.

• The deputy minister of Information and Communication Technology said there may be a change in the mobile phone tariff after Telecommunication Company of Iran’s privatization.
Published in Etelaat newspaper.

• If indebted subscribers of the mobile Company of Iran fail to settle their phone bills in time their lines will be resold, a company official said.
Published in Khabar newspaper.

• Telecommunication Company of Iran  offered tariff on GPRS service was approved by Regulation Organization of telecommunication ministry, a regulatory official said.
Published in Etelaat newspaper.

• An economic expert has said that the fixed 25 percent tariff levied on the imported mobile set has caused stability in the mobile market.
Published in Mobna news agency.

• The Audit office will only approve the increase in telecommunications capital to get quoted in Tehran Bourse on 9 August, provided that its capital is registered in incorporation office, a Bourse official said.
 Published in Mobna news agency.

• Mobile market experts predicted that a cut in the current import tariff will free the market from smugglers in future months.
Published in Mobna news agency.

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