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February 16, 2018 www.intellinews.com I Page 29
bne:TMT Iran to disconnect
smuggled phones
Iran’s deputy minister of Communications and Information Technology announced that all smuggled phones not officially registered with the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) would be disconnected by the Persian New Year (March 21) with no exceptions, according to Iran Labour News Agency on February 12.
Hossein Fallah Joshaghani, the deputy minister and Director of the CRA, announced an initial testing phase of several non-represented brands starting on December 5, including Google, Blackberry and Apple which were barred from the three leading carriers MTN- Irancell, Mobile Communications of Iran (MCI), and Rightel.
The head said the there were no faults in the free registry scheme and the deactivation of mobiles not logged on the official list by the December 5 cut-off will ultimately make the smuggled phones become redundant and worthless to the owners.
Ukraine's mobile operator Kyivstar will spend UAH2.2bn ($82mn) on pay dividends for 2011, 2015 and 2016, according to the company has reported in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market.
Specifically, the company will pay UAH712mn for 2011, UAH1.2bn for 2015 and UAH268mn for 2016.
Kyivstar is the largest Ukrainian telecommunication operator providing communications and data services based on a broad range of mobile and fixed-line technologies, including 3G. Company's customer base amounts to over 26mn in mobile and around 820,000 in broadband Internet.
Kyivstar is a part of VimpelCom Ltd., one of the world's largest integrated telecommunications companies, headquartered in Netherlands.
Kyivstar will pay $82mn in old dividends