Wataniya wins Algeria GSM license
Kuwait's National Mobile Telecommunications Company (Wataniya Telecom) on 2 December was provisionally awarded the third GSM operating license in Algeria after placing the highest bid of $421, announced the Algerian post and telecommunications regulatory body (ARPT). Wataniya hopes to capitalise on the rapidly growing market in Algeria and will rival Egypt's Orascom Telecom, which paid $737 million for Algeria's second mobile phone licence in 2002, and is now the leading operator with ...
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