Third mobile operator to start operation next year:

“Third operator will attract 17 million mobile phone subscribers,” the third operator manager Saeed Mahdiyun said in a meeting which was held in order to study mobile phone problems in country.
Regulation organization has finalized third nation wide mobile phone operator tender documents which will be handed over to this tender manager.
Earlier, the commission president had announced that the winner of the tender should pay 300-500 million euros franchise fee during its license period, but the amount was later reduced to 300 million euros upon suggestion by the International Telecommunication Union experts as incentive to other foreign companies to come forward.
Currently telecommunication ministry officials are studying selection of a foreign consultant for managing the tender.
The third nation wide mobile operators share of the countrys mobile phone market in the next 15 years is expected to be 15 million subscribers.
It is to provide services in 3G technology.
Major operators from 15 countries have so far shown interest to participate in tender.
Some Persian Gulf countries, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, England, Malaysia and Korea are more active to participate in the tender. 
They promised that third operator tender winner can start operation by 22 September.
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