VIEW: Mobile News in Iranian Mass Media, Sunday, April 13, 2008

• TCI board to receive Hamrah Aval Share & Demand Code
• Unauthorized foreign SMS carriers remain unknown
• “TCI shares: several questions”
• “1.5m rial Hamrah Aval on the way”
• “TCI shares trades to begin in May”
• “Assessment of telecom companies starts by Bourse”
• “We welcome Hamrah Aval to install Micro BTS”
• “Two-seater plane; Irancell gift”
• “Good, bad and Ugly”

Articles Digest:
• The first mobile phone with complete Persian software has been produced in Iran. This mobile phone will be introduced to market in compliance with an agreement reached between Research Department at Industries Ministry and Telecom Services Bureaus. This was the major mobile news item published today in the Iranian mass media, including Siasat-e Rouz, Fanavaran, Sobh-e Eghtesad, Andishe-ye No, Javan, Tafahom, Sarmayeh, Donya-ye Eghtesad, Poul and Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• Iran Bourse website announced the assessment of telecom industry and the way of pricing of telecom companies will be done from April 12-15 in the place of Tehran Stock Exchange. This was published today in Kaenat, Fanavaran, Hayat-e No, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Sobh-e Eghtesad and Eghtesad-e Pouya dailies.
• Subscribers & Applicants Affairs General Manager of MCI said in an interview with MOBNA that Hamrah Aval Share & Demand Code will be notified to TCI board of directors in order to meet with final approval. This was published today in Fanavaran, Tehran-e Emrouz, Sarmayeh, Jahan-e Eghtesad, Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• As some news spread about foreign companies’ activities in the form of unauthorized resellers providing SMS at the rate of 135 rials, Deputy Head of MCI said their efforts came to nothing in this matter. This was published today in Jahan-e Eghtesad, Fanavaran and Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• MOBNA yesterday published an article titled “TCI shares: some question” written by Koroush Shams that discusses in detail TCI privatization and sell of its shares in Bourse. This was published today in Jahan-e Eghtesad and Jahan-e Sanat dailies.
• TCI CEO said in an interview with IRIB that Hamrah Aval postpaid SIM cards at 1.5 million rial price would be soon introduced to the market. This was published today in Kaenat and Afarinesh dailies.
• Despite TCI’s admission into the stock exchange, transactions related to the company will not take place before May, said Bourse Vice-President in an interview with CITNA.
• Mobile SIM sellers said about dull market of SIM cards in Tehran, wrote MOBNA. This was published today in Tehran-e Emrouz and Donya-ye Eghtesad dailies.
• Fanavaran daily today published a news item titled “Assessment of telecom companies starts by Bourse” that quotes TCI CEO as saying the assessment of TCI shares’ prices has started.
• Asr-e Ertebat weekly, in its new edition, published a news item titled “We welcome Hamrah Aval to install Micro BTS” that discusses in detail Tehran Municipality is agree with mobile carriers in using Micro sites.
• “Two-seater weekly; Irancell gift” is the headline of another news item published in the last issue of Asr-e Ertebat weekly that mentions the new round of Irancell advertisements aimed at attracting new customers has begun with 13 new special gifts.
• Asr-e Ertebat weekly published in its new edition another news item titled “Good, Bad, Ugly” that discusses in detail the performance of provincial telecom companies in the past year.
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