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         <title>Iran’s fiber optic network linkage to European &amp; US</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Mobile Telecommunications’ fiber optic network is to be linked to European and US networks. Ministry of Information &amp; Communication Technology PR department quotes Bagher Zohourifar, MTC chief, as saying, after signing a protocol with Telia Sotra CO, the...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:24:14 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Mobile phone penetration rate to exceed 60% this year</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Ministry of Information &amp; Communication Technology deputy expects mobile phone penetration rate to pass the 60% mark once 1st and 2nd operators and Taliya have delivered their SIM cards. Vafa Ghaffarian, in conversation with MOBNA indicated the current...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:21:58 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>700b Rial allocated to ICT research</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Ministry of Information &amp; Communication Technology education and research director announced some 700b Rial fund from internal industries sources is being allocated to the ministry’s research center. Kamal Mahaamedpour, in conversation with MOBNA, said once the fund is...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:19:13 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>New regulations on fiber optic network damages</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Communications Infrastructure chief announced that the new regulations on estimation of damages to the fiber optic network have been compiled and will be enforced this year. Mohammad Bagher Zohourifar told MOBNA that, based on new regulations, the cost...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 14:15:09 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Country’s mobile phone culture in need of change</title>
         <description>A senior telecommunication expert believes the country’s mobile phone culture is in need of change and that would entail training its users. Mohammad Hussein Rahimi Zadeh, in conversation with MOBNA, said mobile phone users, especially the young, should undergo training...</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:06:59 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>400,000 mobile phone indebted subscribers deactivation</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Mobile Telecommunications marketing &amp; subscriptions director announced the connection links of around 400,000 indebted 1st Operator subscribers (6% of the total) will be deactivated after an SMS warning has been issued to them. Ali Hamidi, in conversation with...</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:05:45 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>RCRO’s non-involvement in SMS tariff values</title>
         <description>An informed source suggests that the new SMS tariff has been sanctioned by the Cabinet, and Radio Communication &amp; Regulations Organization has played no part in the decision. The source, who did not wish to be named, told MOBNA the...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:04:04 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>GCs project enters its 4th delay year</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Although contractors of the 3rd phase of mobile phone network development were required to complete the project in a year, it has now entered its 4th delay year. The project, launched in late March 2005 to set up...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:58:48 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Hamraah-e Avval network’s 2,000 new BTS additions </title>
         <description>Mobile Telecommunications inter-operational relations director announced with the establishment of Hamraah-e Avval roaming link with rural GSM network, 2,000 new sites will be added to HA’s BTS sites. Abbas Lotfalian, in conversation with MOBNA indicated that the research phase regarding...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:57:21 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Egypt’s Ettesalaat joins Hamraah-e Avval roaming group</title>
         <description>MOBNA – With the Egyptian firm Ettesalaat joining the group of operators in roaming contract with Iran Mobile Telecommunications, the number of such countries has reached 100. MCT’s PR department has announced Ettesalaat is the first Egyptian company to have...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:55:12 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>10% import tariff ineffective on domestic production</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Emaad Semiconductors chief believes the 10% tariff levied on imported mobile phone handsets will have no bearing on the continuation of domestic production. Hamid Reza Monji, in conversation with MOBNA, indicated that the 10% tariff will definitely result...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:52:31 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Mobile handset lab requires 5b Rial fund</title>
         <description>Informatics Industries Research Center chief indicated that the establishment of a mobile handset laboratory would require a fund of 5b Rial. Alireza Khamse, in conversation with MOBNA, said the proposal has been submitted to the Institute of Standards &amp; Industrial...</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:48:47 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>SMS potentials greater than its current use</title>
         <description>A senior telecommunication expert suggests that the mobile phone’s SMS potential, as a popular means, is greater its current role as a means for sending humorous messages. Ahmad Esmaeeli, in conversation with MOBNA, said SMS currently acts as a full...</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:47:11 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Tehran internal trips down with ICT</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Minister of Information &amp; Communication Technology announced that with the information and telecommunication services, Tehran’s number of inner- and inter-cities has fallen by 1,400,000. Mohammad Soleimani indicated that this has been brought about by close cooperation with Telecom...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:45:31 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Private bureau’s Hamraah-e Avval phone bills - illegal</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Mobile Telecommunications’ subscriptions director announced production of Hamraah-e Avval phone bills by private bureaus is illegal and the offending office will be prosecuted. Ali Hamidi, in conversation with MOBNA, announced the practice will violate the uniformity of phone...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:44:33 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Hamraah-e Avval charge cards available only at telecom service bureaus</title>
         <description>MOBNA – President of the union of Telecom Service Bureaus stressed Hamraah-e Avval charge cards should be sold solely at their centers. Zahir Tayyeb, in conversation with MOBNA, said Hamraah-e Avval delivery of charge cards to telecom service bureaus takes...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:38:21 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Information Technology charter on government agenda</title>
         <description>MOBNA – The Information Technology’s draft charter was prepared in the final days of the last Iranian year and submitted to the Council of Ministers for approval. The Ministry of Information &amp; Communication Technology’s PR department quotes Saeed Mahdiun, IT...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:06:23 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Mobile phone equipments production standard at international level</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Iran Telecommunication Manufacturing chief said all mobile phone network equipments have been manufactured to international standard level. Ebrahim Mottale, in conversation with MOBNA, indicated their products rated considerably higher that those of most countries. He said they intend...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:04:30 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Consortium ready for 1st Operator equipments installation</title>
         <description>MOBNA – The director of the consortium of Mobile Telecommunication Development announced they are all set to install their units in the country’s mobile phone network. Mansour Kabiri Rahni, in conversation with MOBNA and referring to the production of equipments...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:02:55 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>4% mobile handset import tariff beneficial to producers &amp; importers</title>
         <description>MOBNA – The country’s head of Mobile Phone SIM Cards, Handsets &amp; Accessories Retailers union believes the 4% tariff levied on imported mobile handsets is beneficial to domestic manufacturers and importers. Afshar Froutan Larijani, in conversation with MOBNA, said the...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:00:43 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Subscribers’ deposits to stay as deposits</title>
         <description>Despite earlier decision that Telecom subscribers would be known as Telecom shareholders once it has been privatized, rumors are that subscribers’ deposits will stay the same. Although the Civil Act’s article 633 clearly states that profits gained from deposits belong...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:35:24 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Telecom companies segregation in Bourse not possible</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Iran Telecom chief announced since telecom companies are interconnected it is not possible to separate them when offered for sale on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Saaber Feizi, in conversation with MOBNA, stressed that Iran Telecom will be on...</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:55:17 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Hamraah-e Avval prepaid SIM card network capacity doubled</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Country’s mobile phone1st Operator, which because of shortage of IN capacity has so far been unable to offer prepaid SIM cards, intends to double its prepaid SIM card network capacity. According to Vahid Sadoughi, Mobile Telecommunications’ chief, by...</description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:52:31 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>CI’s international calls traffic exchange tender</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Communication Infrastructure has put to tender international traffic calls by common technologies such as VOIP. The company’s PR department announced: by the selection of qualified companies as contractors of international traffic, and allocation of a special digit for...</description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:49:42 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Foreign companies’ participation inclination in 3rd Operator tender</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Ministry of Information &amp; Communication Technology International Affairs deputy stated that a number of foreign companies have officially announced their readiness to take part in the 3rd Operator tender. Ahmad Pourangnia, in conversation with MOBNA, indicated that such...</description>
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         <pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:47:02 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Two new SMS centers trial operation</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Mobile Telecommunications Network supervision deputy announced launch of two mobile phone 1st Operator SMS centers. Mohammad Hussein Fallah Asghari, in conversation with MOBNA, said the two centers, Tehran Koushk and Isfahan, which are now operational underwent tests in...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:44:18 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Prepaid SIM card with 0912 prefix sale untrue</title>
         <description>MOBNA – Following rumors that there will be sale of prepaid SIM cards by Hamraah-e Avval with 0912 prefix, Iran Telecom PR director has denied it. Davoud Zareian, in answer to the question as whether the news of the sale...</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:36:20 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>First Operator Awaits the Final Ratification</title>
         <description>TaliyaNews - The license of the First Operator, which has been written out, is in its next phase which is the final ratification of it by the Regulation Arrangements Organization, said the president of the Telecommunication Company of Iran. Mr....</description>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 12:03:23 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Studying the General Status of the Contractors is Vital</title>
         <description>TaliyaNews - Studying the status quo of the general contractors has been expedited, said the chairman of the Telecommunication Company of Iran. Mr. Vafa Ghaffarian, who talked over two procedures implemented simultaneously, one is GC project and the other is...</description>
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         <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:18:49 +0330</pubDate>
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         <title>Domestic Manufacturing Needs Cooperation of Leading Domestic Companies </title>
         <description>TaliyaNews - Leading domestic companies should cooperate in manufacturing of the handsets, said the president of Telecommunication Committee of the Parliament. Mr. Ramazanali Sadeghzadeh said: ‘Leading companies should cooperate in domestic manufacturing of the handsets to offer the latest in...</description>
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