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Latest Telecoms News from Iraq
Mobile Phone Based Food Vouchers Trialled for Iraqi Refugees in Syria
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has launched an electronic food voucher pilot project -- the first of its kind in the world to use mobile phone technology -- to aid 1,000 Iraqi refugee families in Syria....
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Motorola to Manage Zain's Iraqi Network
Motorola has announced the signing of a multi-million dollar contract with Zain Iraq to provide managed services to the operator. The contract commences immediately and will run for three years....
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Alcatel-Lucent Wins Iraqi CDMA Contract
Alcatel-Lucent has been awarded a new contract by Hi Link Telecom, the winner of Western Iraq's CDMA fixed wireless license, for the deployment of its greenfield wireless broadband network in Al Anbar province in the West of Iraq....
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Investor Looking to Sell Stake in Iraqi Mobile Network
Kuwait based logistics company, Agility has corroborated media reports that it is considering selling its minority stake in Iraq's Korek Telecom....
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Iraqi Operator Faces a Series of New Terrorist Attacks in Baghdad
Iraq based mobile network, Asiacell says that it is still the coming under terrorist attacks that are targeting its towers and network infrastructure....
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Iraq to impose controls on Internet
The Iraqi government has decided to crack down on Internet service providers and ban sites that incite violence or carry pornography, officials said Tuesday, a move that has been strongly criticized by freedom of speech advocates as a dangerous first step toward political censorship....
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Iraq replaces Jordan as the Arab World's most competitive cellular market
Iraq has replaced Jordan as the Arab World's most competitive cellular market, according to a new study. The Arab Advisors Group devised its Cellular Competition Intensity Index in order to rate and properly assess the intensity level of competition in the Arab World's cellular markets....
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Iraq Planning to Award Two Additional Mobile Licenses
Iraq's government has approved plans to tender two additional mobile licenses, with one of them reserved for 3G services. ...
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Iraqi Operator to Offer Mobile Banking Services
Iraqi mobile network operator, Asiacell says that it will be the country's first company to offer mobile banking, by implementing the project initiated by Amwal,...
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Iraqi Operator Starts Disconnecting Unregistered SIM Cards
In line with the directions of the Iraqi Government to all mobile telecom companies in Iraq, Asiacell has announced that it began disconnecting 500,000 unregistered mobile lines on the 15th of June 2009. ...
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