Amalgamated Telecom Holdings has paid it's interim dividend of $12.663 million or 3 cents per share for the financial year ending this month.

Payments to shareholders released earlier today and ATH's two largest shareholders, the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF) and the government are receiving $7.3 million and $4.3 million respectively, as their share of the interim dividend.

ATH said in total it has now paid $266.5 million in dividends from the commencement of its operations in late 1998.

Out of the total, the FNPF has received $152.2 million and the government $98.3 million.