Korek Telecom is a Kurdish mobile phone operator company in Pirmam, Erbil, in the north of Iraq. It is a shared limited company registered in Iraq to operate and provide GSM service in the capital of Kurdistan, Erbil and province of Duhok. Korek Telecom has 350 employees, almost all Kurds.
In 2000 the Ministry of Telecommunications in Kurdistan Region granted Korek Telecom a 5 year exclusive GSM mobile license to operate a mobile network in the region covered by the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan (Erbil) and the province Duhok.[1]
In 17 August 2007, Korek Telecom was awarded one of the three Iraqi Mobile Licenses to providing mobile telephony services covering the whole of Iraq.[2]