VOL. XLVI

No 48

1-December-2003

IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION

Fast Deployment Seems Unlikely As Pentagon Probes Iraq Mobile Contract Awards

When it awarded the Iraq mobile contracts on 6 October to three consortia led by Egypts Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH), Kuwaits National Mobile Telecommunications (KNMT) and Kuwaits Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) the Iraqi Ministry of Communications had stressed that it was looking for a quick rollout of the new network. To accomplish that goal it would put the...