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Iranians switch from second largest mobile operator MTN Irancell at unprecedented rate
Macedonian daily Dnevnik shuts down
Mobile phone subscribers of Iran’s second biggest mobile opera- tor MTN Irancell are leaving the network at an unprecedented rate, according to latest statistics released by the Iran Communication Regulatory Authority, the Financial Tribune reported on June 14.
Mobile Number Portability (MNP) services were launched in June 2016 to offer more variety to Iranian mobile users, with many ex- perts predicting people would switch to MTN Irancell’s offer from biggest operator Mobile Communications of Iran (MCI).
But MCI is to date the biggest winner, with 71,033 users switching from MTN Irancell and third operator RighTel.
The last edition of Macedonian daily Dnevnik was published on June 14 as the newspaper’s publisher Media Print Macedonia (MPM) will be shut down for financial reasons.
Few Macedonian newspapers are available now and the shelves of the newsstands are almost without Macedonian editions. After Dnevnik’s demise, the only daily now is Sloboden pecat.
The shutdown of Dnevnik happened less than two months after the print editions of two other dailies, Utrinski Vesnik and Vest, also published by MPM, stopped due to the company’s financial prob- lems although they continued to release online news. MPM was owned by Graficki Centar, a firm close to the former VMRO-DPMNE government.
Latvian telecoms Lattelecom and Latvijas Mobilais Telefons (LMT) should be merged and listed on the Riga Stock Exchange, auditor KPMG advises in a report, local media reported on June 13.
KPMG was hired to advise the Latvian Privatisation Agency on strat- egy concerning the state’s shares in the two telecoms. Latvia has
a minority stake in LMT and a 51% stake in Lattelecom. The Baltic state has been considering selling its shares to the other key stake- holder, Sweden’s Telia Sonera, but is wary the Swedes could sell them on to Russia.
Latvia advised to merge and list state telecoms