Parliament discusses law on mobile phones

TIRANA, Sept. 19 – The parliament’s commission on trade and environment discussed Tuesday the draft law on telecommunicati0on which dealt with the mobile companies. It asks the providers to secure and preserve for two years the data of the users. It practically means that the two companies should registers all their clients, including their greatest number with prepaid cards. That has been a long-required request especially from the law enforcement institutions. Mobile phones have often been used to explode bombs or as tools of the organized crime.
The registers with the data should be put at the disposal of the governmental entity on telecommunication when they ask for that. Thus the providers _ AMC and Vodafone _ should register any user with their full identity and documentation. Providers will be entitled to close the phone number and cut the service to those clients who decline to offer their identity details in six months. Managers of the two mobile phone companies asked that the registration time should be postponed from six to nine months after the law comes into effect.