29/3/2010
The CMC is meeting with the Zain Iraq Company

CMC held a press conference on Tuesday, 6/4/2010 in its headquarter press conference attended by a number of reporters from satellite channels and Iraqi newspapers, about the new mechanism which adopted by the mobile phone companies operating in Iraq, and represented by the pricing of scratch cards in Iraqi dinars instead of dollars, and calculating the phone calls with seconds rather than minutes as it used previously.

The conference had been attended by Dr. Burhan Shawi the CEO of the Commission and Dr. Safa al-Din Rabe'a Chairman of the Trustees Council and Dr. Ali Nasser Al-Khuwayldi Vice-Chairman and Dr.  Sirkawt Namik and eng. Ahmed Al-oamri members of the Trustees Council.
The Conference handled three main topics, which related to the work of mobile phone companies operating in Iraq. The first axis is the adoption of the Iraqi dinar instead of the dollar in the price of scratch cards, to be under the exchange rate from dollar to dinar, according to the rate of the central bank exclusively, and the Commission monitored several breaches which represented by the adoption of the mobile phone companies individual in exchange rates of their own, and for that it's contrary to the Commission's instructions and the necessary will be taken to do so.
The second axis is related to calculating the phone calls with seconds instead of minutes, as there are some mobile phones companies still adopt Calculating the cost with minutes, not seconds as stated in the conditions of its contract with the Commission, and this is contrary to the conditions and legal procedures will be taken in its right in the next few days.

The third axis is related to the process of improving services which provided to citizens by communications companies, ranging from the expansion of the distribution's patch and maintenance of communications towers, and strengthens the communication networks between regions and provinces, as this process to be performed in a maximum period of one year.

The mechanism which performed by communications companies in the adoption of the Iraqi dinar instead of the dollar for the price of the scratch cards were implemented as stated under the conditions of licensing contracts granted by the Commission for these companies since 2007, the meaning of that it's not a new policy adopted by the communication companies as mentioned in some various Iraqi mass media.