North Korea to get mobile phone service

BWCS.com reports that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - known to many as North Korea - is to launch a mobile phone service, with Egypt's Orascom Telecom providing the network. Orascom's subsidiary CHEO Technology, which is 25%-owned by the government's Post and Telecommunications Corporation, will run the country's only network for the next four years, with non-exclusive use then continuing for a further 21 years. The country currently only has a private mobile network, which is used in the capital (Pyongyang) by government officials. [PDF press release]