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Saudi to award more licences for fixed and mobile services
JEDDAH — Saudi Arabia is to award more licences for fixed and mobile services by the end of the year, according to Ibrahim A. Kadi, senior adviser, Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC).
"The Commission is studying the requirements for issuing the licences, which take into consideration international experience in this field, and the Kingdom's commitments under the World Trade Organisation (WTO)," Kadi was reported as saying in a local daily on Tuesday.
He added that the CITC had prepared a schedule for the new fixed and mobile services licencing process with the aim to issue licences by the end of 2006.
Referring to the four stages of licencing, Kadi said that the CITC would conclude the public consultations on key policy issues next month and start public consultations on licencing criteria and processes.
It will publish the licencing schedule during the second half of the year followed by the submission of applications by interested parties.
Evaluation, selection and awarding of new licences by the CITC will be done in the last quarter of the current year.
Kadi was speaking at a seminar organised by the Riyadh-based Institution of Engineers Pakistan-Saudi Arabian Center (IEP-SAC) at Prince Salman Social Centre in the capital.
The topic of the seminar was 'Digital divide and liberalisation of Saudi telecom sector.'
Referring to the massive growth of the Kingdom's telecom sector, he said that the Kingdom had reported one of the highest international traffic because of the large number of foreigners living in this country.
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