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Reduction in tariffs and contact the announcement of new services on the Internet and the draft telecommunications law in Yemen
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By thierry madline
Published on 07/7/2008
 
Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (Eng Kamal Forced) that the time has come to start thinking in order to strengthen the partnership with public and private sectors, in this regard, declaring that his ministry regarding the implementation of restructuring the telecommunications sector so as to achieve keep pace with developments in the field of communications and techniques and implementation of the Programme of the President.

Egyptian Minister of Communications and Information Technology (Eng Kamal Forced) that the time has come to start thinking in order to strengthen the partnership with public and private sectors, in this regard, declaring that his ministry regarding the implementation of restructuring the telecommunications sector so as to achieve keep pace with developments in the field of communications and techniques and implementation of the Programme of the President.
The governor added in a press conference today on the processing of the Ministry of Communications and using experts from the International Telecommunication Union to draft or draft telecommunications law rather than the current law which work in 90 m and amended some of its articles in 96 m, which he said was "to meet a lot of services to include the organization of some of the procedural aspects of operators He emphasized that the bill in the final stages and will soon be upon the Cabinet to approve the House and then discussed it.
With Communications Minister said that the new law will absorb many issues including, revenue and licensing and leasing channels and frequencies, added in his speech on that bill: to give operators a clear instead of the environment-evident in the current law, and that all players will be in one level and the state will supervise them and it What the private sector, but pointed out that supervision to prevent the state from entering into investments.
The accompanying law on forced restructuring of the institutions of the Ministry of Communications and the formation of a regulator called the TRA and that the role of the ministry will be limited to political and legislative role.
In another direction and Communications Minister explained that his ministry is reconsidering the fixed telephone tariffs and approved Saraltarafh reduced from 4 to 7 Real Real from the beginning of this month, pointing out that "something nice to reconsider the tariffs of services in any sector," pointing to a reduction in charges Delivery of fixed telephone set at 8 Real instead of fees and previous limit of 12 riyals, in addition to the introduction of new service represented in the prepayment.
Internet is also spawning grounds a number of projects the ministry, where he forced the minister for Communications Corporation, inaugurated a new service expected to begin next month and free of the Internet, noting in this context that we "guided us and after studying the experiences of some Arab states into something beautiful welcome by owners Internet and a mechanism of accountability for what come down and calculated ingredient bytes of information and has nothing to do with time. "
He said that the ministry would be abolished so-called Internet-governmental, commercial and domestic, educational and will be replaced by three options: the Golden and Silver and Burns as the volume of use, alluding to add service prepayment for the purchase of units of the Internet, pointing out that that service will be a good leap in the Internet service.
He added: We will probably reach higher speeds to Win Mega Win or Gb We are increasing the number of subscribers through the purchase of some agencies are now bidding on a table in the Higher Committee for bids.
And Company (Yemen Mobile), which said that "faced with many questions from citizens," Communications Minister explained that the professional accountant in the final stages to complete the final accounting, Mtman people, "the company is okay in progress," pointing to a number of its subscribers, who reached the one million six hundred and common .
He explained why the delay forced the company's announcement of the profit came due to delayed financial statements and inventory its assets and property, and expected an excellent performance of the company and a profit of more than planned during the incorporation, announcing the declaration in the near future profits from shareholders.
After the minister disclosed that an international tender for an international partner to sell the shares that will be announced after the meeting of the Assembly, asserted that the company Yemen Mobile will be among the first companies that will enter the stock market.
In its review of the process by which e-spawning grounds, said Communications Minister that the Post has achieved the highest interest rate in Yemen, which stands at 14.5%, increase in the number of participants and by 38 thousand subscribers, pointing to the size of financial misappropriations in the mail since its inception and until now, which amounted to 120 Million riyals been recovered 60 million riyals, while the rest is under follow-up, the volume of illicit Mushir in the mail last year, estimated at 230 billion riyals 600 billion rials since its inception.
On the reason for the delay in e-government explained that forced another reason lies in the capacity of institutions and sectors to move people and the inability of public sector employees to deal with the technical required and the need to re-engineering and automation of the public sector, pointing out that this shortage is to start work in e-government The problem of evil in his ministry in the issue of equipment and techniques which said it was "very easy".