December
2003
Iran’s latent GSM potential is at the threshold of energizing
the regional GSM landscape.
November
2003
Jordan's third cellular license: Will it attract investors?
Arab GSM rates: Mirror Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of
them all?
October
2003
Bucking the regional trend, Egypt's fixed lines market keeps growing.
Close to 90 Arab Satellite Channels compete for the eyes of over
71 million viewers in the Arab World.
September
2003
Jordan's cellular market: Two's company. But is three a crowd?
Arab Advisors' Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM) 2002 for
the Arab World. The Gulf countries lead the pack!
Media
and Telecom operators: Friends or Foes?
August
2003
Arabic Superstar's voting grosses over US$ 4 million in voting revenues
alone.
July
2003
Iraq's
cellular market growth will most resemble Lebanon's in the coming
two years.
Disclosure notice: Recent changes in Arab Advisors Group's ownership.
Tunisia's
datacomm market is at the doorsteps of liberalization.
June
2003
Is
there room for a 3rd GSM network in Egypt?.
The
Arab World's GSM and PSTN revenues reached US$ 15 billion in 2002
.
Four
upcoming VSAT licenses herald a form of competition in Saudi Arabia's
datacomm market.
May
2003
The
planned local Internet node in Lebanon is set to reinvigorate the
market.
April
2003
Algeria’s
second GSM operator ends 2002 with a dominant market share.
March
2003
An essential
prerequisite for larger e-commerce adoption in Morocco is growing
at a healthy rate.
2003
resolutions for Lebanon: Liban Telecom to be privatized and the
GSM market to reawaken.
Saudi
Arabia’s mobile market stands at a threshold of a major boom!.
February
2003
78%
of Jordanian SMEs utilize computers, while two-thirds use the Internet,
a recently concluded study by Arab Advisors Group reveals.
Bahrain's
regulator offers groundbreaking incentives for the country's second
GSM operator.
Arab
Advisors Group 2002 Regional Internet Bandwidth Indices results:
The UAE and Qatar lead the region.
Morocco’s
second GSM operator, MédiTélécom picks up speed.
January
2003
The
Fastlink sale in Jordan: Good news for all?
Tunisia’s
telecommunications renaissance begins.
December
2002
Interconnection
rates in Arab telecom markets: Quite different approaches.
Bahrain
sets its liberalization blueprint.
November
2002
Morocco’s
fixed services liberalization plan faces unplanned delays.
Close
to half a million Jordanians online by 2006: A boon for players
targeting the potential.
Bahrain’s
well-developed Internet market is set to enter a competitive stage?
October
2002
Jordan
Telecom: A transformed operator?
Qatar’s
Internet access services market to exceed US$ 29 million by 2006.
On
the eve of liberalization, Morocco's fixed line service stagnates:
Is this bad or good news?
The
UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait top the ranks, while Morocco and
Syria's rankings are far from flattering!
September
2002
Arab
Advisors Group expects low global operators interest in Arab World's
upcoming liberalizations. Arab Regional operators will step in.
Arab
Advisors Group's analysis of Saudi Telecom's upcoming IPO: An ambitious
valuation target that could still be successful!
Libya’s
telecommunications market is lagging behind!
Bahrain’s
well-developed market has a savvy monopoly operator. Yet, it can
also sustain another operator!
The
Qatari communications market manifests all the hallmarks of a monopoly
market. It also can easily support expected competition in and after
2005!
August
2002
Year
2001 was one of Jordan’s Communications Market’s Golden
Years. 2002 is set to be another golden one!
A
new report from Arab Advisors group reveals that less than a third
of Arab Stock Exchanges have a disaster recovery plan.
July
2002
The
threat of competition reinvigorates Tunisia's communications market.
June
2002
The
big and the beautiful in Arab GSM markets!
MobiNil
efforts to promote its postpaid plans succeeded!
Equant
to face competition from Cable & Wireless in Jordan.
Egypt's
Internet subscribers will grow substantially, but consolidation
will diminish the number of its ISPs.
May
2002
Expected
competition in the UAE's Internet and datacomm markets will sustain
the UAE's first rank status amongst Arab Internet markets.
Solid
Internet growth pillars insure Kuwait's leading ranking among the
Arab countries.
April
2002
Syria's
Internet access service will fetch US$ 30 million in revenues in
2006, up from US$ 3.25 million in 2001.
More
rate reductions await Jordanian communications services users.
March
2002
Tunisia's
second GSM license: Is the emphasis on upfront license fees hurting
the GSM markets in Arab North Africa?
Egypt
will have more GSM lines than PSTN fixed lines in 2005.
The
gulf region's first GSM duopoly market proves to be a spectacular
success.
February
2002
A tightly controlled GSM duopoly
situation stifles Syria's GSM market growth!
The
UAE GSM market is a dream market for new operators- when they are
allowed in!
January
2002
Arab
Advisors' Regional Internet Bandwidth Index results: Oman the new
January 2002 star!
Jordan's
second Integrated Communications Services Provider (ICP) starts
to take early shape.
December
2001
Arab
World's International Connectivity markets present ripe growth opportunities
for FO submarine cable and satellite operators!
Lebanon's
Internet market poised for bandwidth relief by early 2002!
Who
wants to be a millionaire? Smart telecom operators join the fray!
October
2001
Arab
communications markets on the threshold of unprecedented competition.
September
2001
International
Internet bandwidth in the Arab World: Bandwidth starved until 2005
August
2001
SMS-based
services in the Arab World: A key testing ground for the future
of Wireless Internet in the region
July
2001
Jordan's
regulator fails its "level-playng-field" test
June
2001
Free
Internet in Egypt by the end of the year
Real
competition expected to start in Kuwait's GSM market
Arab
Advisors Group commends the Moroccan regulator's strong resolve
April
2001
Arab
Advisors Group predicts rapid consolidation and impending shakeout
amongst ISPs in the Arab World
February
2001
New
report skeptical about the prospects for satellite mobile communications
in the Arab World...
Arab
Advisors Group predicts strong growth in Jordan's Internet market...
January
2001
New
Research finds Arab World ready for "serious" e-commerce
and online ventures...
December
2000
Vivendi
Deal with Maroc Telecom: MENA telecom valuations face a reality
check..
A
recent analysis by the Arab Advisors Group suggests that Egypt and
Jordan should merge their IT labor markets for them to maximize
benefits...
Cellular
liberalization brings in more than US$ 4 billion in licenses to
date for Arab governments... |
