Gulfsutra: Dubai MVNO; Saudi WiMax; Earnings: Batelco, Wataniya, Qtel

Upcoming Events:
Digital Nation Seminar, March 11, Muscat, Oman
Middle East & North Africa Satellite Summit 2008 (MENASAT), March 5,6, Dubai

Across The Region
WPP Acquires Majority Stake in Team Group (ops in UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman Etc)
Dubai Based FRiENDi Mobile To Launch Virtual Mobile Network In Middle East
Middle East Region behind in e-commerce due to poor marketing
Piracy In Arab World Estimated At $50Bn
IT spending in Middle East and Africa to exceed $40b this year
Akamai (NSDQ: AKAM) To Host Middle East Servers With Etisalat
e-Payment Co OneCard Ties Up With Classifieds Co eWaseet
Zain Selects Mobinex Platform For On Device Portal
China Mobile plans to expand in Middle East and Africa
Saudi Arabia
Atheeb And Bahrain’s Batelco To Roll Out WiMax Services In Saudi Arabia
Batelco, PCCW And Verizon (NYSE: VZ) get Saudi Fixed Line License
No freedom for ‘dean of Saudi bloggers’
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) gets $335 mln pact from a Zain Saudi firm
UAE
Spotlight: Running a mobile shortcode service in UAE
Etisalat To Launch 3.5G Service – 100GB/month package
Etisalat prepares to enter Iraqi market
Etisalat in joint venture talks with Iraq’s Korek Telecom
Etisalat To Offer SMS Spam Protection
Research On Dubai And m-commerce

Kuwait
Wataniya Telecom Results: $296.25 Million Net Profit For 2007
Kuwait’s Zain eyes $1 bln stake in Arab operator
Zain seeks news on Turkey 3G licence plans
Bahrain
Batelco Gross Revenues Grow 25% to $777.4 million; Net Profits At $269.2 Million
Bahrain to sell third mobile phone licence
95% Of All Gulf Air tickets Issued Are e-tickets
Qatar
Qatar Internet services operating at 70% after cable break
Qatar Telecom Q4 profit falls, plans rights issue
Egypt
Egypt Auction Of 2nd Fixed-Line Licence On June 19 and Atheeb To Bid For It
Egypt’s Orascom Telecom to reduce issued capital
Egypt’s Wireless Penetration To Reach 69.4% in 2010 Says Report
Oman
Nawras Profit Hit By Interconnect Fees
Oman’s Internet subscriber base grows to 102,657
Jordan
Mobile Guidebook Ijazza Launched In Jordan
Optimiza will establish a regional center for Bharti Telesoft in Jordan

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