EghtesadOnline: Ahead of World Information Society Day, major Iranian communications companies unveiled their latest services and future programs during separate conferences.

EghtesadOnline: ITU Telecom World 2017 kicked off on Monday in Busan, South Korea, where global ICT leaders meet. Like the previous rounds, telecom companies and senior officials are attending the event during which Iran’s minister met with the ITU chief and urged him to assist Tehran in modernizing the crucial sector.

EghtesadOnline: Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi on Friday conferred with Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Media Nikolai Anatolyevich Nikiforov on expansion of economic and communications cooperation.

EghtesadOnline: The Communication Regulatory Authority (CRA) has issued a mandate requiring Internet service providers to offer 50% discount to subscribers using the new domestic national network.

ٍEghtesadOnline: The Iranian Space Agency and Iran’s Space Research Center will sign a contract to jointly design and build a communications satellite to be named Nahid 2 (Venus 2 in Persian).

EghtesadOnline: The Communications Regulatory Agency of Iran issued import permits for 26 electronics last week.

EghtesadOnline: The minister of communications and information technology rejected a claim by Turkish mobile phone operator Turkcell against South Africa’s MTN, a 49% owner of MTN-Irancell, saying MTN has not broken any laws when starting its deal with Iran Electronic Development Company (IEDC) in 2005.