The app allows users to make low-cost calls when roaming aboard through an internet or GSM connection.
Hussein Oteifa, GM at satellite provider SES Middle East, explains how data connectivity is important for economic growth.
Omantel did not give any timing for the issue in the bourse filing.
Factors largely beyond its control have dulled Ooredoo’s lustre, and its profits for the past two quarters have missed analysts’ forecasts by a wide margin.
Around 41 per cent of social media users in the Arab world preferred to communicate via WhatsApp, a report says.
Increased competition in the UAE’s telecoms sector will help make services more affordable for new companies.
The company attributed the slump in profit to foreign exchange losses in Indonesia and higher costs in its Myanmar and Algerian business.
InnJoo, which launched in the Middle East last year in partnership with e-commerce site Souq.com, has sold 300,000 devices over the last six months.
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Until now there has been only one issuer of sukuk in Oman, a OMR50 million private placement from Tilal Development Co.
The Saudi telecoms operator’s stock had been suspended for a week until Thursday.
The company said that it does not anticipate difficulties with respect to future financing repayments and costs.
The regulator had suspended Mobily’s shares last Wednesday, after the company announced it had suffered a $243 million loss in 2014.
The budget smartphone brand plans to expand to all the GCC countries and markets in Africa, South East Asia and Latin America in the coming months.
The firm slashed its profits for 2013 and the first half of 2014 by a combined $381 million, citing accounting errors.
Sony said the M4 Aqua smartphone represented a renewed focus on the mid-range segment.
The South Korean manufacturer has released two versions of its latest flagship device, one utilising curved screen technology.
It made an annual net profit of Dhs8.9 billion, up from Dhs7.1 billion in 2013.
Mobily’s shares have fallen by 56 per cent since an accounting scandal first broke in November.
Mobily on Wednesday said it had swung to a full-year loss in 2014, according to audited results.
The sack comes after the launch of an investigation into accounting practices at the telecom operator.
Tuesday’s price of SAR35.30 per share means around $13 billion has been wiped off Mobily’s market value since May.
Abdulaziz al-Saghyir quit due to health reasons, but will remain on Mobily’s board, the company said.
The company’s 2014 annual profit was KD45.7 million, down from KD76.1 million in 2013.
Increased revenues from its African subsidiaries helped the company post a strong profit.
The move is seen as mostly benefiting Zain Saudi, the smallest of the Kingdom’s three mobile network operators.
Ihab Hinnawi had been chief executive of Jordan’s Umniah, an operator which is 96 per cent owned by Batelco.
The firm made a net profit of Dhs512.7 million in the last quarter of 2014, down from Dhs570.3 million in the year-earlier period.
HSBC and National Bank of Abu Dhabi, will each provide $60 million each to Etisalat Misr.
The former monopoly has now posted rising profits in four of the past six quarters.