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| Djezzy GSM (Algeria) |
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| Djezzy GSM, a branch of the Egypt-based Orascom Telecom, is Algeria's principal mobile network operator, with a market share of 65% (over 9.4 million subscribers as of June 2006) and a network covering 84% of the population (48 wilayas.) It acquired the country's second GSM license in July 2001, with a bid of $737 million, and was officially launched on February 15, 2002. It has two competitors: the government-owned Algeria Mobile Network and Wataniya. |
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| France Telecom (Lebanon) |
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France Telecom is the main telecommunication company in France. It currently employs about headcount 191,000 FTEs (half outside of France) and has nearly 159 million customers worldwide. For the last twelve months it had revenue of 60.11 billion dollars. In August 14th, 1994 France Telecom Mobile International created a joint venture between FTMI (67 %) and the Mikati Group (33 %). Hence, FTML launched its GSM service under the commercial name "Cellis". (needs penetration numbers) |
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| Comium Liberia (Liberia) |
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Comium is a Group is an acknowledged leader in the provision of telecommunication services in Lebanon and the Middle-East. Comium Group has within a period of 12 years established itself as a major player in the Middle-East in the field of telecommunication operations and know-how. Over this short period, the breadth of expertise and knowledge has placed Comium among the major players in Lebanon and has raised the name of the company in the Middle-East.
COMIUM launched its Mobile Services in Liberia 2004 and Broadband Service in 2005, and witnessed continuous growth in a country where the competition is very tough. Comium Liberia is a fast growing GSM Operator and is one of the leading wireless data and Internet service providers. It offers a wide range of services, advanced technologies, and scalable and efficient high speed corporate and consumer Internet services. |
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| Comium (Ivory Coast) |
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| Comium Group has widened the scope of its activities with established operations in GSM, International traffic, Internet and Data Operations, Contracting and Turnkey Service Engineering, as well as e-commerce, Web-design and engineering. With a population estimated at over 17 million, mobile subscribers in the Ivory Coast reached 2.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2005 yielding a penetration rate of about 13.5%. The market witnessed an average 30% annual growth last year. Comium inspire growth through the introduction of innovative products and services, coupled with a highly competitive and cost-efficient pricing strategy together with quality of service represented by coverage, customer care services, and distribution channels to the market. |
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| Syriatel (Syria) |
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| Leading the Syrian mobile telecommunication market since 2000, Syriatel is a privately owned telecommunications company founded in 2000. Today it controls 55% of the total market share. They have an established a network of 63 Points of Service covering all Syrian territory. Their Call Centers in Damascus and Aleppo serve daily over 32.000 customer queries. Regionally recognized as one of the fastest growing operators, their 1907 skilled employees serve today over than 2.300.000 Customers, representing 55% share of the actual market, having 240 international roaming partners in 118 countries. |
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| MTN Ghana (Ghana) |
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| Since its incorporation into the MTN Group, Areeba Ghana has focused on a previous roll out backlog, commissioning more than 280 base stations during the last three months of 2006, improving service and call quality and strengthening network infrastructure. The company has launched several innovative services into the Ghanaian market, a trend the company chief scribe says will continue. Market penetration of mobile telecommunications services in Ghana is growing exponentially. As at December 2005, Areeba's total subscription was 955,000. Today the network commands a clientele well over 3 million spread across the 10 regions of the country. |
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| MTN Sudan (Sudan) |
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| MTN global brand made its appearance in the Sudanese telecommunication market in July 2005. The company, through its legal entity Bashair Telecom, won the second GSM license in Sudan in September 2004. Established in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1993 MTN has grown from a local to a global mobile service company. In 1998 it had 4.1 million subscribers in South Africa but as at last year it had 50 million subscribers in 21 countries in Africa and the Middle East. It has 13 million subscribers in Nigeria, its largest market on the continent: nine million in South Africa and 2.9 million in Ghana, its third largest market in Africa. |
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