TCI not acted illegally in purchasing mobile phone equipment

“TCI has acted properly in purchasing 76% of mobile phone equipment outside tender procedures and would issue an official reply when the report comes out,” Davoud Zareian told Mobna news agency.
The Parliament committee investigating TCI affairs had earlier indicated that TCI had purchased 76% of its mobile equipment outside official procedures.
According to Ghazipour, TCI should have sought Government approval when purchasing such equipment but had failed to do so.
The report by Parliament on TCI affairs is expect early May and would be submitted to the industries and mines committee.
Issues such as: directors’ funds, Telecom Research Center activities, landline phone service cost, the way tenders and auctions were conducted in the past four years, payments to TCI contractors are among those to be covered in the report.
Issues such as :amount of fund available to TCI directors, Telecom Research Center activities, landline and mobile phone cost prices, TCI tenders and auctions in the past four years, and payments to TCI contractors.
Other issues include: TCI’s raising of mobile phone sms tariffs without prior authorization, delay in production of equipment for six million mobile phone lines, lack of transparency in TCI financial documents, and transfer of TCI and its subsidiaries’ assets after TCI privatization.
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