Full telephone communications restored to Serb enclaves in Kosovo
After 19 days without a mobile telephone signal, the Telekom Srbija network has been restored to the 100,000 Serbs living in isolated enclaves in Kosovo, reported news agency Tanjug.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Wednesday, May 12, 2010
It remains unclear how Telekom activated its signal in central Kosovo. In the Serb-dominated north of Kosovo, no transmitters were disabled.
On April 23, the Kosovo Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, claiming that Telekom and Telenor, the two Belgrade-based mobile service providers to Kosovo, were "unauthorized illegal, non- licensed operators," subsequently disabled or damaged over 20 repeater and base stations on Kosovo territory.
Serbian officials condemned the move, saying it was part of strategy of forced assimilation, and that only the United Nations mission on Kosovo (UNMIK) was competent to regulate telecommunications according to the Security Council Resolution 1244.
