September 02, 2008 11:35 AM
TIRANA, Sep 02, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Albania announced
on Tuesday that mobile phone rates in this tiny western Balkan country
would decrease by 20 percent by October.
Albania currently has one of the highest mobile rates in Europe. And
the price drop was announced after a new mobile communications law was
adopted in June.
Albanian Minister of Telecommunications Sokol Olldashi also said, while
making the announcement, that Albania intends to invite international tenders
for the construction of a fourth mobile company in October.
Albania currently has three mobile phone companies: Albanian Mobile
Communications, Vodafone Albania and Eagle Mobile. It has one landline
phone provider owned by a Turkish consortium.
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