| ICM and Maltatel - to be considered dead
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| Written by HiVoltage |
Wednesday, 17 May 2006
Last year you probably have noticed some of the hype regarding this new telephone company that is set to revolutionalise the call prices, offer low cost wireless Internet access, and all that. These guys also submitted application forms in every Maltapost post office, and even asked for a deposit of Lm5 simply to fill in a form - when the service wasn't even available anywhere. The company in question was Maltatel.
A few months later, we received the truth - ICM, the mother company of Maltatel requested a withdrawal of the license for its wireless network. Today, however, we just learnt that not only ICM closed down Maltatel, but they even have got almost Lm7000 debt with the MCA (Malta Communications Authority) - Lm6,956.74 to be precise. Therefore, MCA is warning ICM that if they don't receive any acceptable response from them by 14th June, they will have to withdraw ICM's general authorisation license, which is the license every ISP and telecom operator has to pay.
So, there it is - bye bye ICM and Maltatel. We wonder what happened to those Lm5 deposits some people paid. Any ideas? Anyone?
*** UPDATE 19th May ***
ICM notified MCA they will no longer be offering any publicly available electronic communications services. So it's official now - ICM is dead.
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