VOL. XLI

No. 17

27-April-1998

SAUDI ARABIA

Saudi Cabinet Approves Establishment Of Telecom Company

Less than six months after it first announced the corporatization of the telecom arm ofthe Ministry of Posts, Telegraphs, and Telephones (PTT), the Saudi Cabinet on 20 Aprilapproved the establishment of the Saudi Telecommunication Company (STC), which will runthe telegraph and telephone sectors - "including fixed phones, data transfer systems,pagers, mobile services, public phones and the general...