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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