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Unitel Saga Continues

Filed under: Yemen — by Jane Novak at 8:37 am on Tuesday, September 5, 2006

SANA’A, Sept. 04 (Saba) – Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology denied any arguments with the third GSM operator, Unitel Company. In its statement, Saba received a copy of it, the ministry said that the letter of partners of the company was in fact directed to Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The ministry said that the letter made it clear that an argument and disagreement erupted between the partners of the company.
The ministry said that it has not any relationship in the argument.
The ministry’s statement called on the coalition to resolve its problems and the differences and not to employ them for delaying the payment of$ 30 million which is the rest sum of the operation license. The ministry warned the company that it will refer the issue to the Cabinet to take the required measures, if the company does not pay.

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4/3/2007 @ 11:23 am

[...] Background: In November 2005, UNITEL signed a new agreement with the Ministry of Telecommunications and Information Technology which grants it priority in operating the third GSM company in Yemen. Unitel was a product of China Mobile Telecommunications Corp. and a group of Yemeni and Arab businessmen. The agreement is valued at USD149 million. UNITEL initially failed to pay the USD149 million to the Yemeni governments. In July, second highest bidder, Omantel, declined to resubmit its offer of USD 100 million, telling Elaph website that it was dissatisfied with the Yemeni governments handling of the UNITEL transaction. The Saudi-based House for Integrated Technology Systems and UNITEL merged to form HitsUnitel. Later in October of 2006, UNITEL reportedly paid the debt and is on track to establish the company. HITSUNIEL reportedly increased its capital to USD190 million during its first meeting in January 2007 and will be managed by Damascus-based Syriatel Mobile Telecom under the chairmanship of Nader Al Kalai, Syriatel’s chief executive. The company expects to operational by mid 2007. [...]

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