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Qatar says Vodafone group wins 2nd mobile licence

Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:26am EST

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DOHA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A consortium including Britain's Vodafone Group Plc (VOD.L) won Qatar's second mobile phone licence, Qatar's telecommunications regulator said on Monday, without saying how much the group had agreed to pay.

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Vodafone's group was among five that remained in the contest for the licence to end the last telecom monopoly in the Arab world.

Other bidders included AT&T (ATT.N), Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N), Emirates Telecommunications Corp ETEL.AD (Etisalat) and Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co (ZAIN.KW) (Zain), the regulator said in a statement.

Qatar Telecommunications Co QTEL.QA runs the only mobile and fixed-line networks in Qatar, an OPEC oil producer with the world's third-largest natural gas reserves. (Reporting by Daliah Merzaban; editing by Dayan Candappa)

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