Ugg
Oct 7, 2003, 11:29 PM
Link (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3168106.stm)
Surprise, surprise! Not a western telco in sight! I really, truly suspected that all three would go to western firms but it turned out differently.
THE LICENCE WINNERS
North: Kurdish group Asia Cell, whose investors include Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications (Al-Wataniya) and Bahrain-based United Gulf Bank
Central: Egypt's Orascom Telecom with local and other Arab investors
South: Atheer Tel, 30% owned by Kuwait's MTC, 50% Iraqi investors, 20% other Kuwaiti investors
Good news for the Iraqi people, I hope.
Surprise, surprise! Not a western telco in sight! I really, truly suspected that all three would go to western firms but it turned out differently.
THE LICENCE WINNERS
North: Kurdish group Asia Cell, whose investors include Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications (Al-Wataniya) and Bahrain-based United Gulf Bank
Central: Egypt's Orascom Telecom with local and other Arab investors
South: Atheer Tel, 30% owned by Kuwait's MTC, 50% Iraqi investors, 20% other Kuwaiti investors
Good news for the Iraqi people, I hope.
