VOL. XLIV

No. 26

25-June-2001

LEBANON

Lebanon Cancels Mobile Operators BOT Contracts

Lebanons Higher Council for Privatization on 14 June cancelled the 10-year build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts of the countrys two mobile telecommunications operators, Libancell and Cellis. The government said it aimed to auction off the licenses by the end of the year within the structure of its separate efforts to privatize the state-owned fixed line provider and introduce a third mobile provider. The...