Syria’s Ministry of Communications and Technology has announced that six Arab and foreign companies have submitted their bids for the country’s third mobile license before the deadline.
As per the country’s assistant minister of telecommunications and technology Mohammad al-Jalali, the companies in the framed consideration are: UAE-based Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat), Mobily Saudi Arabia, Saudi Telecom Company (STC), Qatar Telecom (Qtel), Turkish firm Turkcell, France Telecom (FT) and TAMCO of Iran.
The six applicants will now have their tenders evaluated by a committee from the Ministry with the participation of a German advisory company, and two candidates will be chosen to go to the next stage.
