Service line won’t be affected due to delays to fixed line award, says Vodafone Qatar

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Corporate governance issues has again led to the delay, this time until the first quarter of the  next year,  in the official award of Qatar’s second fixed line license to Vodafone Qatar.

In September 2008, the British-Qatari joint venture was declared the winner of the second national operator (SNO) license, with commercial fixed line services originally mooted for 2009, whilst in the meantime it broke the monopoly of Qatar Telecom (Qtel) with the launch of 2G/3G services in July 2009.

According to William Fagan, the head of the country’s regulator, ictQATAR , Vodafone Qatar and its local investor Qatar Foundation had still not formed the actual company that will be awarded the fixed license. In order to launch fixed line services before the end of 2010, he expects all problems to be resolved early in the next year.