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Syria welcomes more Chinese investment in telecom sector

Syrian Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Abdullah al-Dardari, said Monday that his country welcomed more Chinese companies specialized in the telecommunication sector for investment and cooperation. Dardari made the remarks in a speech at the opening ceremony of a four-day exhibition of sophisticated wireless communications products held by China’s ZTE Corporation.

Link: UAE: Mobile drive to register expats

A mobile enrolment programme to register all expatriates in the private sector with the Labour Market Regulatory Authority will get under way next week, it was revealed yesterday. LMRA officials will visit major private companies to take the photographs, electronic signatures, fingerprints and other data of expatriate workers using mobile equipment, said LMRA chief executive Ali Radhi. The process started yesterday with the registration of expatriates working with the government, he told a Press conference at the LMRA headquarters in Sanabis.

Link: Malaysia: Maxis to tap BlackBerry personal users market via new smartphone

Maxis Communications Bhd eyes the BlackBerry individual market segment with the launch of its BlackBerry Curve smartphone and entry-level BlackBerry service package here yesterday. “For as low as RM20 per month, Malaysians are able to send and receive email and even continuously chat online, while on the go,” its chief operating officer Jon Eddy Abdullah said.

Link: Etisalat may bid for Kuwaiti telco

UAE operator Etisalat said on Thursday it was interested in bidding for a stake in Kuwait’s third mobile phone operator to tap demand for telecoms in the Middle East’s fourth-largest oil producer.

Kuwait’s government has invited companies to express an interest in bidding for a 26% stake in the operator that it is setting up, by a September 7 deadline.

Link: 17.5% lift in Omani mobile users

Omantel’s fixed line phone service subscription at the end of H1 totalled 257,235, a fall of 5.2% when compared to the 271,456 recorded at the same time in 2006, according to statistics released by the Ministry of National Economy and cited by the Times of Oman. But the number of subscribers to billed and pre-paid mobile services offered by Oman Mobile and Nawras increased by 17.5% to 2.1m.

Link: Pakistan: Acision increases Ufone SMS capacity by 700%

Another Link: Acision Increases Messaging Capacity for Pakistani Telco by 700%

Ufone has upgraded its Acision high performance Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) to support rapid uptake of SMS for its mobile service brand. The company is expanding its messaging capacity by 700 percent to handle very high volumes of messaging traffic and provide subscribers with a high-quality messaging experience.

Link: Pakistan: PTCL announces Rs 2 per minute rates for 16 countries

The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited has announced its new rates for international direct dialling (IDD) that enables landline consumers to call a number of destinations worldwide just for Rs 2 per minute, says a PTCL press release.

It says that PTCL, after its acquisition by Etisalat, is going through a process of revamping and revolutionary steps are being taken to enhance its image as a customer-oriented services provider.

Link: Malaysia: Citibank starts mobile download on good buys

Citibank Bhd expects to attract 100,000 users for the Citibank World Privileges on mobile service over the next two years, said chief executive officer Piyush Gupta.

Launched yesterday, the service allows Citibank credit-card customers to download information on all the relevant offers at its 40,000 merchant outlets in more than 40 countries – including over 1,000 outlets in Malaysia – via their mobile phones.

Link: Afghanistan: Taliban tapping into British cell phones

British soldiers in Afghanistan have been barred from using cell phones because the Taliban have been tapping into them and making prank calls to their families.

Intelligence officials fear that the Taliban may be picking up more than the information needed to frighten wives and parents, The Sun, a British newspaper, reported.

In one case, the wife of an air force officer got a middle-of-the-night call that said her husband had been killed, The Sun reported. When she called the Royal Air Force, she learned that was not true.

Link: Jordon to help Iraq rebuild telecom sector

Jordanian Minister of Telecommunications and Information Technology Basim Al-Rousan has said that Jordan is working to help Iraq rebuild its telecommunication sector.

Al-Rousan’s comment came in a press release after a recent meeting with Iraqi Communications Minister Mohammad Alawi Wednesday, where an agreement was reached concerning efforts to rebuild the telecommunications sector and benefiting from Jordan’s experience and specialization.