| | MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network News: Morocco to re-launch 2nd fixed phone bid in Q1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Morocco to re-launch 2nd fixed phone bid in Q1 (MENAFN) An official at Morocco's Industry, Trade and Telecommunication Ministry said that the country will try again to sell a second fixed phone license, this time in the first quarter of 2004, after an earlier tender failed to attract bids, Reuters reported. |
 | | The first fixed licence is held by Maroc Telecom in which French giant Vivendi Universal has a 35 percent stake. |
 | | The sale in 1999 of a second phone license to a consortium led by Spain's Telefonica led to a rapid growth in the number of mobile phone users in the country but has resulted in the loss of some 300,000 Maroc Telecom fixed-phone subscribers. |
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