Government inaction towards the activity of communication companies under Houthi control in the liberated areas
تاريخ النشر: 29th, August 2023 GMT
A recent report prepared by a parliamentary investigation committee revealed a negligent stance by the legitimate government towards the telecommunications companies under Houthi control in Sana'a and operating in the liberated areas.
The final report of the parliamentary fact-finding committee on what has been reported in a number of sectors, including telecommunications, referred to the government and the Ministry of Communications' dealings with the telecommunications companies "YOU" and "Yemen Mobile", which are under the control of the Houthi group in Sana'a.
The committee said in its report that it had noticed a state of duplicity in the position of the government and the Ministry of Communications in dealing with the mobile company MTN, which was operating in Yemen, and sold this right and all its assets to an Omani mobile company called YOU without the knowledge of the ministry and the government, contrary to legal procedures, and without liquidating its debts to the government.
Referring to the step taken by the government and the ministry not to recognize these legal procedures, to sue MTN, to seize its assets and to prevent the alternative company YOU from carrying out its work.
However, the committee expressed its astonishment that the ban on the company's activity was limited to the city of Aden, excluding other liberated governorates, in which it continued to operate and recovered the confiscated devices, "in a double position that is unjustified and incomprehensible to the committee."
In this regard, the Committee stressed the need to take legal measures, through a comprehensive legal settlement of this file, and to end this duplication in all liberated governorates, in a way that preserves the legal rights of all parties.
The committee's report revealed the refusal of the "Yemen Mobile" company to pay fees and taxes to the legitimate government, despite its continued activity in the liberated governorates, and even activating the fourth generation services.
Where the committee demanded to stand strictly before the "Yemen Mobile" file and its grave violations by not supplying any fees, taxes, or any various government dues according to the law, and for it to operate fourth-generation services in the liberated areas without obtaining a license from the legitimate government.
The Parliamentary Committee called for opening an investigation of the parties and personalities that facilitated and supported the activity of "Yemen Mobile" in the areas controlled by the legitimate government, in particular the operation of the fourth generation service in violation of the law and the government's directives.
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