Five firms take part in Iraqi mobile licence auction (Iraq)Only five companies will take part in the auction of three Iraqi mobile phone licences, writes Dow Jones, citing the country’s finance minister, Bayan al-Zubaidi. They are the three main operators, Egyptian company Orascom Telecom’s Iraqna, Kuwait’s MTC-Atheer and Kuwait’s AsiaCell, part of Wataniya, plus Korek Telecom, which operates in the Kurdish city of Erbil, and one new candidate, Turkcell. A total of ten companies had originally expressed interest in the auction, but five withdrew due to security concerns, Al-Zubaidi said. The auction is being held in Amman, Jordan, on 16 August and could run into the following day, with the results to be announced on 20 August, according to Siyamend Othman, head of Iraq’s telecommunications and media regulator. PriceWaterhouseCoopers is advising on the auction.
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