Middle East & North Africa Telecommunications

JEDDAH: The global dawa efforts have reached new levels in the Kingdom with dawa activists adopting a new and innovatory mean to invite non-Muslims to Islam. A new initiative entitled “Call Me to Islam” has been set up to help non-Muslims convert to Islam or increase their knowledge about the faith.
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Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH), a wholly-owned subsidiary of UAE incumbent Etisalat, has said it will be seeking a contract with new rival operator Du to settle its international roaming accounts. EDCH, one of only five firms of its type in the world and the only one based in the Middle East, settles roaming charges […]

Etisalat has followed Bahrain telco Batelco’s lead by introducing a cut-price, ‘time-limited’ broadband internet package for home users costing just AED99 per month.
Available from November 16, Etisalat is billing this 256Kbits per second connection package as an “affordable alternative for high-speed internet browsing and e-mailing”.
The monthly subscription charge of AED99 (US $27) is based on […]

Infocomm, an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) company and m-commerce solution provider, has signed a deal with Telecommunication Company (Oman Mobile) in a drive to develop and implement an SMS parking system throughout the Sultanate of Oman.
Oman Mobile’s move to use technology to extend the SMS parking service will allow drivers in Muscat to avail […]