Cambodian Economy Reviews » mobile phone market http://khmerian.com Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:23:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Telecoms dispute solved http://khmerian.com/2009/11/telecoms-dispute-solved/ http://khmerian.com/2009/11/telecoms-dispute-solved/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:24:38 +0000 Cambodia Economy http://khmerian.com/?p=795 Cambodia’s ongoing feuding between Mobile Phone firms happened more than one month, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hen Sen released statement dated Oct 21 by warming that mobile phone service providers will face with lose of license if they still block cross-network calls and sell call below costs.

Leading mobile phone service provider, MobiTel, last month accused Russian phone firm, Beeline, of giving below cost calls and of the irresponsible business practice of price dumping. And Beeline accused MobiTel of blocking calling within interconnectivities.

“The Royal Government will take strict action against any telecommunications operator who does not respect this order and still continue to block cross network connections or competes dishonestly leading to chaos in Cambodia’s telecommunications market,” read the premier’s letter.

So far, there are 9 phone operators with more than 4 million users in Cambodia’s phone market.

It is the third government intervention in the last month for concerning pricing and interconnection issues in the telecoms sector.

Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon and Minister of Posts and Telecommunications So Khun issued a letter dated September 29 ordering the phone companies to stop any unfair promotions or interconnection problems that could bring crisis to the telecoms industry.

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