[xinhiua] 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 the Serbian news agency Tanjug on Tuesday.
The mobile telephone provider has not, however, disclosed how it has managed to restore service to the Serbs who live south of the Ibar River; service was not disrupted in the Serb-dominated north.
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.
A number of retaliatory attacks on the property of Kosovo mobile phone operators ensued.
On Monday, Serbian Minister for Kosovo and Metohija Goran Bogdanovic said his ministry and the telecommunications companies were trying to resolve the problem peacefully.
Full telephone communications restored to Serb enclaves in Kosovo
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