(MENAFN) The Saudi Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) released a statement announcing the extension of deadline for submitting applications for the new mobile license to Feb. 24 and for the fixed-line license to March 10, Arab News reported.
The statement said that the deadlines were extended in response to requests from several interested parties in order to give them more time to prepare their offers.
According to the previous announcement, the last date was Jan. 20 for mobile and Jan. 27 for fixed phone. Copies of the applications for both licenses can be downloaded from the CITC website or can be collected from its office in Riyadh.
The planned licensing is a major milestone in the liberalization of the Kingdom's telecom sector, the CITC said, adding that the organization was committed to issuing the licenses at the earliest.
The new licenses will break the monopoly of Saudi Telecom Co. (STC) on landline phone services and add at least a third mobile phone operator after STC and Mobily.
No comments:
Post a Comment