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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (44754)	10/6/2003 1:51:21 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Read Replies (2) of 50167

Was it really about oil money? Iraq Awards Phone Licenses, Rebuffs U.S. Technology Mon October 6, 2003 01:26 PM ET By Mona Megalli and Fiona O'Brien BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq awarded licenses Monday for firms to set up mobile phone networks, rebuffing calls by some American lawmakers to use U.S.-backed technology to restore war-shattered communications. Communications Minister Haidar al-Ebadi said Iraq's three regional networks would use the GSM system, already used across the Middle East, rather than U.S.-backed CDMA technology. The licenses are among the most potentially lucrative and high-profile contracts to be offered by the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority which governs postwar Iraq. The new networks -- expected to be running within weeks according to Ebadi -- will be a boost for businesses and government ministries which have been struggling to function in a country where only satellite phones can be relied on.

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