Deadline for Saudi MVNO licence applications closes

Saudi Arabia’s CITC has confirmed that the deadline for the submission of applications for one of the kingdom’s three proposed mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) licences closed yesterday at 3pm local time. Earlier in March the CITC announced that due to requests from some interested parties to postpone the deadline for submitting applications, the regulator had extended it by a week to May 11.

Interested parties are forecast to include Virgin Mobile Middle East and Africa, Renna Mobile, Mobily, and Effortel, amongst others.