VOL. XLVI

No 41

13-October-2003

IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION

Iraqs Mobile Telephone Awards Receive Mixed Reaction

Following protracted delays and months of speculation about the potential winners, the Iraqi Ministry of Communications finally announced on 6 October it had awarded three potentially lucrative licenses to build the first mobile telephone system inIraq. The winner for the Central region (encompassing Baghdad) was Orascom Telecom Iraq Corp (OTI) which is majority owned and controlled by Egypts...