The Authority of the Regulation of Post and Telecommunications (ARPT) on Monday has granted provisional licences of 4 generation technology to the three mobile telephony operators in Algeria.
These are the provisional licences for the establishment and the exploitation of public networks of 4G telecommunications by Algerie Telecom Mobile (ATM, Mobilis), Optimum Telecom Algérie (OTA, Djezzy) and Watania Telecom Algerie (WTA, Ooredoo).
The bids submitted by the three mobile operators on April 11, were studied by the ARPT Committee, which granted the temporary licences.
The three operators, whose managers were present at the ceremony of the announcement of the results, will be informed on 29 May of the provinces of their deployment from the first to the fourth year.
Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies Imane-Houda Faraoun said in a speech read on her behalf by the ministry interim general secretary Saliha Sayeh, that with the launch of 4G, Algeria enters "a quality phase of modernization of its infrastructures by the deployment of new technologies such as high speed internet."
