Uzbek Court Suspends U.S.-Owned Mobile Operator for Alleged Violations.
An Uzbek court suspended the license of U.S.-owned mobile phone operator, leaving its nearly 400,000 users without service, the company said Thursday.
The city court in the capital Tashkent ordered Coscom, 87-percent controlled by Washington-based MCT Corp., to suspend its service for 10 days following alleged "systematic" violations of licensing agreements, the company's director general Abraham Smith said in a Web-posted statement.
Coscom serves 378,000 of the Central Asian nation's 2.7 million mobile phone users. Its main competitors are Russian mobile operators Vimpel Communications and Mobile TeleSystems that last year took over the local Unitel and Uzbdunrobita providers respectively.
Russian telecom operator Megafon said last September it was interested in purchasing Coscom.
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