Middle East & North Africa Telecommunications

Batelco Corporate Affairs Senior Manager Hatem Altaie and Public Relations Specialist Atifa Ali Bin Rajab recently paid a visit to SMC to meet a group of young cancer patients and their families and also the medical and nursing staff of the hospital’s cancer unit.
During the visit Mr. Altaie and Mrs. Rajab presented gifts to the […]

The number of Arab internet users will double to around 50m in three years, according to Google chief Eric Schmidt quoted by Gulf News. He said there will be more online content available for non-English speakers in the near future. Schmidt will be addressing delegates at the upcoming Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai.

Dubai, UAE - November 23, 2006: Salem Al Shair, eServices Director, Dubai eGovernment received a Malaysian delegation comprising representatives from the government and IT industry at the Dubai eGovernment stand at GITEX 2006.
The delegation included Sharifa Hind Hussain, Supervisor of MATRADE Dubai Office, the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation, Consulate General of Malaysia, Badlisham Ghazali, […]

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 […]

KUWAIT: The telecommunications market in Jordan has developed in line with other regional peer countries based on fixed and mobile penetration rates. In terms of addressing the “digital divide”, the policy of the government is to encourage the widest possible access to communications services at affordable prices. Steps to achieve this objective include the encouragement […]

Bin Hindi Informatics (BHI), in collaboration with Samsung Mobiles, is introducing a unique and new concept in mobile servicing - the ‘mobile service collection points’ network in Bahrain.
Under this scheme, which commences on the first day of Eid, customers can hand in their defective handsets to the nominated nearest ‘collection point’, and pick it up […]

Cellucom has been appointed authorised distributor for the complete range of Samsung mobile phones, both companies announced.
Cellucom is the premium distributor and retailer of mobility products and one of the fastest growing retail chains in the GCC region,
“Cellucom, a power retailer in its own right, has earned a solid reputation in the GCC market for […]

Dubai: Budding filmmakers are being urged to enter a contest that offers them the chance to fly to Los Angeles and show off their work in Hollywood.
UAE-based film company Mirage Holdings Freezone is launching its second film competition after its inaugural contest last year saw a string of young filmmakers visit the world’s film capital.
The […]

A DOWNED mobile network and a busy landline system made it difficult for people in Bahrain to get in touch with friends and relatives in Lebanon as Israeli attacks continued yesterday.
Lebanese Karim Miknas said he had been trying to call his family in Tripoli and Beirut since hearing about the attacks.
“I haven’t gotten in touch […]

KUWAIT: Wataniya Telecom, Kuwait Red Carpet Co, delivered prizes to Issam Al-Jridan and Essam Majed, the two winners in the second draw of Wataniya campaign: “Wataniya World Cup 2006″. Prizes were delivered by Abdul Aziz Al-Balool, PR Manager, Wataniya Telecom.
The two new winners expressed their gratitude toward Wataniya’s initiative allowing them to attend semi-final games […]

Hyper-competition is set to dominate the Middle East’s telecommunications and media markets moving forward, driven by strong subscriber growth and the opening up of multi-license markets, according to Arab Advisors Group.
The market is also seeing the emergence of a number of regional ’super-operators’ with operations in multiple markets, including UAE’s Etisalat, Egypt’s Orascom, Kuwait’s MTC […]

The surprise announcement by STC’s Al Jawal last month, of its commercial launch of 3G services in Saudi Arabia is reminiscent of the similar announcement made by MTC Bahrain back in December 2003. MTC Bahrain had been jostling with Etisalat over which of the two operators would become the first to launch 3G commercially in […]

THE World Press Photo Exhibition 2006 opened for visitors at the Seef Mall yesterday.
The event, which is open until May 26, is held under the patronage of Southern Governor and Public Commission for Protection of Marine Resources, Environment and Wildlife head Shaikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa.
It is open to the public free of charge […]

Enhanced Valuetime packages from Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco), aims to satisfy the needs of business customers by offering the lowest flat rate in the market and the highest volume discount on the total bill.
Customers can now benefit from a call rate of only 20 fils per minute under the Valuetime 200, Valuetime 230 and Valuetime […]

Cairo, Egypt – Nokia, an innovator in adding value to the mobile experience, announced today the winner of the US$50,000 around-the-world grand prize in the Nokia Connections promotion, a 10-month program for mobile phone users in 19 Middle East and North African countries.
The winner, Ahmed Samir Mohamed, 28 years old from Al Minya, Egypt, was […]

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