Posts Tagged ‘ zain ’

Definition and Short List of Mobile Value Added Services

Nov 19th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events

Event Name: Mobile VAS in Growth Market
Date: December 14-15, 2010
Location: JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
The mobile and telecom-related star-studded list of speakers for Mobile VAS in Growth Markets include: Abhifit Saxena of Netcore Solutions India, Atif Saeed Ahmed of Kuwaiti Telecom, Bashar Hantouli with Beecell in Jordan, Christos Touloupis with Vodafone in Greece, [...]



UAE Incumbent Etisalat to Acquire Over Half of Zain Share Capital

Nov 11th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Featured, Mobile applications

Etisalat acquire 51% Zain’s issued share capital whose ‘One Network’ already enables customers to receive calls and sms without charge, to make…



Mobile Broadband Players Explore Emerging Markets and Capitalise on Spending Power

Nov 4th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Telecom

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, — Everybody intuitively knows the Middle East, Gulf Nations and North Africa is becoming a wireless connected society.
In fact, in 1998, the founders of Techistan participated in a MENA area conference that was a symphony of cell phones engaged by thousands of users.
 
The firm evidence came, when Pyramid Research released figures that mobile subscribers [...]



MobileMonday opens a chapter in Ahmedabad, India

Oct 12th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Mobile applications

Ahmedabad, India & Helsinki, Finland September 27, 2010 – MobileMonday celebrates 10 years of collaboration, community, and innovation with the new chapter launch in Ahmedabad, India. With Ahmedabad becoming its 107th chapter, MobileMonday is now active in all continents. The Ahmedabad mobile community will join the worldwide group of mobile movers and shakers under the [...]



Free Passes to Nigeria Com for Telecom Operators September 28-29, 2010

Jul 27th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events, Featured

“Infrastructure-sharing is not shy any more,” says Ahmed Farroukh, CEO of MTN Nigeria during 2009 Nigeria Com. Meet fearless successful leaders like Farroukh at Nigeria Com September 28-29, 201



Let me Tell you about Zong

Jul 17th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Telecom

Yikes, I wish I had more time to share my experiences, knowledge, observations of best practices, and other items related to monetizing IP communications… before heading home for the day, I want share a memory of a great mobile phone service…
Zong is the Tibetan word for county, referring both to the traditional government units and [...]



15 Per Cent More International Attendees At CommunicAsia2010 and BroadcastAsia2010

Jun 24th, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events

SINGAPORE, 18 JUNE 2010 – 55,150 local and international industry visitors, conference speakers and delegates, exhibiting staff and members of the media participated in a full week of activities at CommunicAsia2010 and BroadcastAsia2010.  The event saw more overseas visitors this year, with visitors from key Asia Pacific markets like China, India, Japan and Korea all [...]



CTIA is the Gathering of the Brightest in Wireless

Feb 22nd, 2010 | By omar shaikh | Category: Events, Featured

The mobile market is important in all 190 plus nations on Earth where the number of mobile subscribers increases at a phemonenally faster rate than fixed subscribers. But how many times have wireless operators heard the term “dumb pipes” applied to them in the last few months? What has happened in the last six months [...]