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TAJIK MOBILE OPERATORS IGNORE MEETING ON PROPOSED ONE GATE SYSTEM
DUSHANBE, Apr 07, 2009 (AsiaPulse via COMTEX) --
A roundtable meeting on the
Tajikistan government's proposed new regulatory system, the
Unified Communications Center, scheduled for April 3 was not
held as interested sides did not come.
The Association, Media Alliance of Tajikistan, jointly with
the Dushanbe independent TV station, Simoi Mustaqili Tojikiston
(SMT or Independent Television of Tajikistan), was going to
hold a roundtable meeting on problems of the creation of the
unified communications center in the country but it was not
held because of absence of participants representatives of
relevant ministries and organizations, as well as mobile-phone
companies and international organizations were invited to
attend the meeting.
Only two representatives of the national operator Tajik
Telecom, at which the center is expected to be established,
came. Therefore, it was decided to postpone the meeting.
As it had been reported earlier, cellular communications
operators are concerned over efforts of the Ministry of
Transport and Communications (MoTC) to create one gate system.
They raised the issue at a February 25 meeting in Dushanbe with
senior representatives of a MoTC. The ministry proposes to
establish the unified communications center at Tajik Telecom.
According to Radio Libertys the private mobile-phone
companies point out that Tajik Telecom has a debt of some US$50
million and that the attempt to control the entire mobile-phone
market is being proposed to ease the financial woes of the
company, which is run by the MoTC. The companies have suggested
that an independent monitoring body be used in place of the
government.
We will recall that for the first time, the ministry
formulated the plan to establish the Unified Communications
Center and Information Resource Unit under the Ministry of
Communications in February 2006 already but the scheme was not
implemented that time due to complaints of the cellular
operators and criticism that came from international
organizations. The ministry is pushing again for the
establishment of the unified communications center.
Implementation of this project would require all
telecommunications companies and Internet service providers
(ISPs) to route their traffic through the center.
(TCA)
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