VOL. XLVII

No 06

9-February-2004

LEBANON

TELECOMS

Lebanese Government To Retender Mobile Phone Privatization

The Lebanese Government announced after a cabinet meeting on 30 January that the public auction and tender to privatize the two cellular phone networks had failed and that the Minister of Telecommunications had been requested to draw up new tender documents, which will have to be reviewed by the cabinet. The government also cancelled another tender to invite bids for the operation and...