Arab Mobile Communication Studies

A Global View of mGovernment: For many mGov professionals the EURO mGOV
provided the first opportunity to observe the recent developments in various parts of the
world other than the country they live in and they had ample opportunities to closely
interact with those professionals.
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http://www.icmg.mgovernment.org/documents/The%20report%20on%20EURO%20mGOV.pdf

Mobile phones and development Calling an end to poverty
http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=4157618

Mobiles are becoming "media channels" as music, games, gambling and adult content clamour to make the industry worth $42.8bn (£24.6bn) by 2010.

Groups of like-minded people will continue to use smart technologies to stay smart, say experts at Germany's Trend Day conference. They already impact the Web -- but at what price?
By Alex Ulmanu
Posted: 2005-06-10
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http://www.ojr.org/ojr/stories/050609Ulmanu/

Mobile Observatory

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Do mobile phones invade our privacy? British MPs give their views.by Sandy Starr
The spiked/O2 online debate Do mobile phones invade our privacy?, which explores the implications for privacy of new developments such as camera phones, location-based services, data retention and spam, has attracted a number of lively responses from readers. But what do policymakers think about all this?

Abu Dhabi: Of every 20 residents in the UAE, as many as 19 own a mobile phone.

Etisalat yesterday announced its mobile phone subscribers crossed the four million mark, giving it a customer base of 95 per cent of the country's 4.2 million population.

95% of the 4.2million UAE residents own mobile phones.

"A ratio of 19:20 represents one of the highest mobile phone penetration rates in the world and confirms Etisalat's success in finding a winning formula to satisfy its customers across the board," said Mohammad Hassan Omran, chief executive of Etisalat.

"Other countries may have approached a similar level but it is unlikely that any of them had a single telecom operator. Etisalat is probably the only single operator in one country with such an achievement," he said.

This is a noteworthy achievement and confirms the corporation is able to deliver what the customer wants, he said.

The corporation is to launch Next Generation Networks to join its cutting edge services such as 3G, with others including missed call notification, Tarji, GPRS roaming and Najm, Etisalat's first post-paid calling package.

Etisalat reported net profits of Dh3.4 billion for 2004 on the back of revenues totalling Dh10.4 billion.

[VIA: arabicnews.com]

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/050629/2005062911.html

Arab mobile phone subscribers 3% of the world average
Regional, Economics, 6/29/2005

The number of mobile phone runner companies has reached 29 in 19 Arab states, and the number of subscribers reached by 46 millions rating 3% of mobile phone subscribers in the world, Head of the Arab Group for Mobile Phone Mohammad al- Aqeel said on Tuesday.

Al-Aqeel, speaking at the 29th Conference of Arab Mobile Phones Runner Companies in Damascus, added that the communication sector in the Arab world has increasingly witnessed speed progress during the last years.

Deputy Director of Syrian Communication Establishment Nazem Bahsas, for his part, said the conference is considered an important opportunity to deepen dialogue and propose ideas and conceptions to enhance communications among Arab states.

The 29th Conference of Arab Mobile Phones Runner Companies, organized by Ministry of Communications in cooperation with SYRIATEL, opened deliberations at Le Meridian Hotel in Damascus.

Participants discussed latest achievements of Mobile communication technology and the way of increasing the market share of Arab runner companies taking into consideration promoting the offered service quality.

21 Arab organization and more than 90 senior researchers in addition to a number of representatives of the World Organization of Mobile Phone Runner Companies are taking part at the Conference.