Du to sustain its position until 2012 (UAE)Inspite of calls for more competition, it will be four years before the United Arab Emirates gets another mobile operator. TRA declined to comment, the watchdog’s director general has previously said it was standard procedure to give a new entrant such as Du a two or three-year grace period to gain market share and become sustainable before adding a third competitor.
According to the statistics, the country’s wireless market is currently divided between Etisalat and Du claimed 77.7% and 22.3% market shares respectively at the end of March 2008.
