Algeria receives no concrete proposal from Orange to join national market

Algeria hasn’t received a concrete proposal from the French phone operator Orange to enter the Algerian market, said Saturday Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies Zohra Derdouri in an interview with APS.
“We have not received any concrete proposal from Orange to enter the telephony market in Algeria,” said the minister in a reply to a question on an alleged “refusal” of the telephony operator Mobilis to open its share capital to Orange, as reported by the press.   
Derdouri said that the operator Orange expressed the wish to the Algerian authorities to enter the national market as part of collaboration with some operators of the mobile phone in Algeria.
“We told them (officials of Orange) that they should make proposals,” she added, underlining that “the fact of accepting or refusing can be decided only on the basis of a proposal.”