Iraq 3G licence sale made for the card!

 Govt sets bottom price in $307 trillion per licence, but supplier says it is just testing the lake.

Iraq's cell operators will certainly finally manage to bid for 3G licences from the not-too-distant long term, if studies that blossomed this 1 week are proper.

The market of licences has become delayed for years, but your country's Local authority or council of Ministers yesterday agreed to create a minimum amount price of $307 million per concession, Reuters noted on Fri, citing Ahmed Alomary, a ex - commissioner on the Communications and also Media Fee (CMC). His comments were confirmed by way of government supply, the newswire mentioned.

There will be as yet not any timeframe for that auction, the source said, adding that she does not expect it to occur this season. He likewise said how the $307 million figure is only an initial price set through the ministers in order to gauge reactions and can change.

So it seems there is certainly still a reasonable amount of red recording to untangle before the country's cell operators can begin rolling out there 3G.

The CMC had requested that will 3G permits be invested in Iraq's three main cell operators – Zain, Ooredoo's Asiacell, and Korek – though the Council of Ministers declined.

The market could catch the attention of new players in to the market, although Reuters warns that brand-new entrants creating networks coming from scratch could possibly further slow-moving the rollout of 3G services in the market.