The Ministry of Communications said 90 million dinars have not been collected from land line telephone subscribers since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in August 1990.
The ministry sources told Al-Jarida the bills have accumulated, some of them since before the brutal Iraqi invasion noting that the concerned committee whose task is to follow on this file concluded that there are more than 110 million landline phones and of these 20 million subscribers have not updated their data, which has led to the difficulty of collecting these dues.
The sources added the committee has made great efforts in the past in cooperation with several parties to make inventory of the data of the subscribers who have defaulted payment of outstanding bills. However, the bills will remain outstanding in their names until they are paid in full.
The sources stressed the ministry will not waive these dues, whether they are owned by citizens, residents or companies, out of its keenness to preserve public money.