Mobile Phone Firms Threaten to Sue Mfone

Mobile phone operators Hello Axiata Co. Ltd. and Latelz Co. Ltd. are threatening to take legal action against the Thai-owned firm Mfone for allegedly refusing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly owed to them in interconnection fees. In a letter dated October 12 to Mfone’s chief financial officer, Naruemon Sriphan, Hello claims that Mfone owes the firm a total of $142,297 in fees which are charged when the user of one network calls a user of another network. The missed payments date back to June 2011, according to the letter, which also threatened to suspend connection services between the two firms unless the amount is paid in full. ... Hello, Smart and Vietnamese-owned telecommunications firm, Viettel (Cambodia) Pte. filed similar complaints to the government in July claiming that CamGSM Co. Ltd., which operates under the MobiTel brand name, owe d them collectively more than $1.5 million in interconnection fees. ...

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