www.WirelessFederation.com/news: More favourable terms have been provided to Iraqi mobile operators Zain and Asiacell for paying their government license fees, in exchange for a pledge to improve services.
The services of the companies will be monitored for a year by the government and after meeting the service standards the balance of the fees due over five years can be paid by them. Zain and Asiacell have already paid USD 625 million each of the total licenses cost of USD 1.25 billion.
Last year the government slapped fines totaling more than USD 20 million dollars on Zain, Asiacell and the third operator Korek for poor service and for not honoring contracts.
