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Mobily slashes call rates to half (UAE)

  • November 13th, 2008
  • 5:12 am

Mobily, prepaid and postpaid subscribers can enjoy halved rates on all Mobily national and international calls at any time of the day. The offer is valid till Dec. 4. Mobily has announced that a local call minute will cost as little as 15 halalas for postpaid subscribers and a meager 10 halalas for preferred numbers, starting from the moment the “dial” key is pressed. The same applies to preferred numbers as well.

Prepaid subscribers will have to pay only 27.5 halalas per minute on the click when they call other Mobily numbers. The rates to other networks remain unchanged. A press release issued, Mobily reiterated its keenness to have the simplest, best possible offers “with no fine print or hidden charges to worry about.”

According to the firm, the real test for any network is its ability to handle increased traffic, whether during promotions or on special occasions including holidays and Haj season. The concerned authorities have approved all of Mobily’s offers. The operator is introducing several consecutive offers to keep its rates the lowest in the Kingdom for the benefit of its subscribers, the latest of which was a 60 percent rate cut on all national calls, regardless of network, after the third minute of every call placed.

Mobily offers 70% free credit on recharge of SR60 or more (Saudi Arabia)

  • October 30th, 2008
  • 7:21 am

Mobily launches a brand new offer for its pre-paid susbcribers, excluding the Rehal subscribers, which allows them to enjoy nearly 70% free credit when they recharge their subscription for SR60 or more. The offer will be available till November 9.
“Mobily aims to provide a great deal of offers to its subscribers for them to enjoy the best rates,” said David Murphy, chief marketing officer. “This offer gives prepaid subscribers the highest bonus credit in the Kingdom on their individual phone lines, with the subscribers being the primary beneficiaries of the extra credit upon recharging.”
He also says that the subscribers can utilize their extra credit to make voice and video calls, send SMS messages and surf the Internet. The extra credit should be used up within 90 days of getting it.

   

Mobily launches mobile social networking site (Saudi Arabia)

  • October 21st, 2008
  • 7:36 am

Mobily, Saudi Arabia launches all new social networking site named Khod w khal (Chit-Chat), before Ramadan. Khod w khal is an advanced mobile social networking service with picture uploads, chat rooms and friend finder features amongst others. The mobile social networking site is available in English and Arabic, based on Small Planet’s proprietary technology and service concept.
Mobily being Saudi Arabia’s leading mobile operator was chosen by Future Mobile Technologies as partner to come up with the innovative mobiel social networking site.

   

Mobily’s roaming subscribers to enjoy free incoming calls (Saudi Arabia)

  • October 13th, 2008
  • 6:34 am

Mobily, the Saudi Arabian mobile operator, has launched a new mobile tariff plan, wherein the subscribers can recieve local and international calls for free in 56 countries.
Mobily’s new call tariffs is a part of one of the largest roaming agreements which involves more than 100 GSM mobile operators across the globe.
The countries covered will be the UAE, Egypt, Bahrain, Jordan, Sudan, Libya, France, Switzerland, Japan, Finland, Denmark and Norway.
The new service also allow receipt of free SMS from the operating network in 51 nations, in other 5 Arab nations, the subscribers will have to select the operator.
Now the mobily subscribers can be mobile from one network to the other and that too free of cost. A one-minute call to any GCC country will cost 44 halalahs, Jordan 80, India 72, Iraq 92, and Yemen 80.

Mobily announces a special discount of 60% for it’s subscribers (Saudi Arabia)

  • September 17th, 2008
  • 8:59 am

Etihad Etisalat, Mobily, announces special discount of 60% on all local and international calls after the third minute.
According to Mobily, both prepaid and postpaid subscribers, excluding Rahal package, will be benefited from this discount starting today.The offer is applicable to local and international calls, in or outside the peak periods, and will also includes the local and international preferred numbers.

   

Zain launches it’s commercial network in Saudi Arabia (Saudi Arabia)

  • August 26th, 2008
  • 1:10 pm

The Zain Group announced the launch of its commercial operations in Saudi Arabia, which will be covering 53% of the population in 36 major cities and 14 highways spanning over 4,000kms. Further coverage will be achieved by roaming agreement with rival operator Mobily.

This network will also be offering a 3.5G broadband services that include television, video-calling, rich multimedia content and fast internet access.
Further expansion will be made in order to cover whole of the Kingdom.

Zain Group CEO Dr Saad Al Barrak said: ‘We are delighted to have launched services in the economic powerhouse of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and we intend to fulfil our promise to offer the community world-class telecoms services. The experience and resourcefulness of all 22 Zain operations are all committed to supporting the Saudi operation. Coupled with the impressive economic growth that the Kingdom is experiencing, we are confident that all our stakeholders in the Kingdom and beyond will reap excellent rewards in future years.’

   

Saudi Arabia’s Mobile Market profile

  • August 7th, 2008
  • 7:17 am

The Saudi Arabian telecom market is rapidly becoming a competitive market. The large population, fast growing economy, relatively low penetration rates and ingression of new operators like Zain make this market a potential one. The operators in Saudi Arabia are Saudi Telecom Communications (STC) and Mobily(Etisalat), whereas Zain has been provided with the third mobile licence, is still due to launch it’s services. Saudi Arabian mobile subscribers have recently grown to 27 mln, 109% penetration.

STC reported a net income of SAR 3,840 mn, up 24% YoY, compared to our 3,515 mn estimateand has a subscriber base of 18 mn at end of June 08.

The second mobile operator of Saudi Arabia, Mobily (Etisalat), is growing it’s subscriber base rapidly which is just above 8 million, increasing by 32% and net profits grew 47% at the end of June.

Zain is looking to commercially launch its 2G/3G network on August 15, 15 months after announcing that its consortium had been selected as the winner of the kingdom’s third mobile licence in March 2007 at a cost of US$6.11 billion.

PS: According to the sources, Verizon-led consortium has won initial approval to operate Saudi Arabia’s new fixed-line phone network. It would operate with $300 million capital and invest $3 billion linking 21 cities in seven years to its optical wire fixed-line network.

STC gazes at MENA expansion (Kuwait)

  • July 31st, 2008
  • 8:56 am

CEO of STC quoted that STC eyes Middle East and North Africa (MENA) expansion . $6.7 billion has already spent by Arab world’’s largest telecom firm over the previous 13 months in deals that opened markets spanning from India to South Africa and Turkey. STC said they wanted to buy the 25 percent stake the Oman government is selling in Oman Telecommunications Co (Omantel). “We have a desire for other takeovers, but things depend on their maturity and their right timing and any license in any Gulf Arab country that can be offered could be the subject of our interest,” Chief Executive Saud AlـDuweish, STC, said.

Primarily STC will target markets that offer strong growth potential that would generate sustainable revenues from abroad, he said.

STC cuts call charges upto 69% (Saudi Arabia)

  • July 28th, 2008
  • 1:40 pm

Saudi Telecom company (STC) cuts call charges as more competition grows in the market. The cost of international mobile call cuts upto 69%. As STC is gearing up for the launch of a new competitor next month. It will reduce its tariffs for calls to 30 markets, including Indonesia, Kuwait, South Africa and Turkey. Zain soon going to join STC and Mobily.

Saudi Market reports rise in telecom shares (Saudi Arabia)

  • July 28th, 2008
  • 8:49 am

Zain, STC and Mobily, three Saudi telecom companies  registered a record rise on the Tadawul, despite the decline on the general index by 0.64%.The record profits announced by STC and Mobily, and the commercial launch of Zain, pushed the three shares up. Zain rose 4.3%, STC by 4.1% and 1.4% for Mobily.

The record profits announced by STC and Mobily, and the commercial launch of Zain, pushed the three shares up. Zain rose 4.3%, STC by 4.1% and 1.4% for Mobily.

Egyptian Financial Group Hermes recommended STC and Mobily shares, setting their prices at $26.94 and $22.68 respectively. The move pushed portfolio managers to buy the two shares in large quantities at their current prices - which is 45% under market value for STC at $18.61 and 63.4% for Mobily at $13.87.