com/reports/c18871 ) has announced the addition
of 2005 Middle Eastern - Telecoms Statistics and Market Overview to their
offering.newscom. With the exception of mobile voice, both countries
have opened all sectors of the market to unlimited competition.
The analysis shows that the average rate of national SMS for the studied
Arab cellular operators is US$ 0.

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researchandmarkets. Libya's
cellular operator , Al-Madar, has the lowest rate for international prepaid and
postpaid SMS at US$ 0.

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com/cgi-bin/prnh /20040820/RESEARCH )
This annual report provides an insight into the telecoms market of the
Middle East.
This level of development and liberalisation is reflected in the telecom
industry of countries in the region, ranging from Qatar's total monopoly of
the telecoms market until 2013, to Israel's total market liberalisation, to
conservative Iran's shaky attempts at market reform to cater for the massive
unmet demand for mobile services.

Research and Markets: SMS + MMS Rates and Services in the Arab World

Lebanon and Morocco lie at the other end with the
highest SMS rates in the region. Both cellular operators in Morocco,
Maroc Telecom and Medi Telecom, have the same rates for international SMS, the
highest in the region, which are US$ 0.

Includes links to maps, photograph sites, live web cams, and satellite imagery pertaining to the Middle East as a whole.

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The
region is a jigsaw of countries at various stages of economic development and
market liberalisation.
The report also reveals that Sudan's cellular operator, Mobitel, has the
lowest rate for national prepaid and postpaid SMS at US$ 0.researchandmarkets.

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(Logo: http://www. The result of this is evident
today as there are 11 countries with two or more mobile operators.

For more information visit
http://www. Sudan and Palestine have the lowest SMS rates,
while Morocco and Lebanon have the highest.074 for postpaid
subscriptions, while the average rate of international SMS stands at US$ 0.

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SMS + MMS Rates and Services in the Arab World, which has 45 detailed
exhibits, provides a detailed regional comparison and analysis of the Short
Messaging Service (SMS) and Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) rates and value
added offerings in the Arab region.

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Topics detailed in the report include the following:

- National and international telecommunications infrastructure
- National and international telecommunications infrastructure
developments
- Regulatory issues and government policies re infrastructure
- Datacomms Infrastructure, Leased Lines, ISDN , Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS
- Brief overviews on all of the major telecommunications carriers and
service providers

Countries covered: Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait , Lebanon,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey United Arab Emirates and Yemen
The telecoms industry in the Middle East region is slowly but surely
shedding its status as an underdeveloped , overprotected or closed market. The initial wave
of liberalisation was in the mobile market.
Apart from regulatory developments, the upcoming increase in wholesale
international bandwidth will have a major impact on affordability of services
in the region.

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The first
wave was sometimes either accompanied or followed by liberalisation of data
markets such as those in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. New operators
will enter the markets and, like in most countries that have just opened their
markets, go for the most profitable sectors such as international voice and
data.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c18871

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.088 for prepaid and US$ 0.

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newscom. International
SMS rate is, on average, double the rate of national SMS for both prepaid and
postpaid subscriptions .

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Saudi Arabia is set to follow down the path taken by Israel, Bahrain and
Jordan soon when it announced plans to liberalise fixed-voice markets two
years earlier than anticipated.

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The third and final wave ,
liberalisation of fixed-line voice markets has already swept over Israel,
Bahrain and Jordan and will soon occur in Saudi Arabia.270 and US$ 0.571 for both prepaid and postpaid
subscriptions .

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However the rate of change, particularly in
market liberalisation, is gaining momentum, driven by a combination of
factors: World Trade Organisation (WTO) and other international body
requirements , the desire to improve the quality of services and the desire to
improve the standard of living through economic investment. The
report also analyses the SMS-based value added services and service providers
in the region.

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Bahrain and Jordan have recently created a regulatory environment
conducive to competition. The
sudden influx of wholesale international bandwidth should lead to a drop in
wholesale prices and result in cheaper prices for end-user services.156 for postpaid subscriptions.

Contents of this report include:

- General Comparisons
- GDP per Capita
- Regulatory Landscape
- Overview
- Regional Comparison of SMS Tariffs
- Regional Comparison of MMS Tariffs
- SMS Value Added Services
- Profiles of Content Providers + Technology Partners
- Content Providers

Companies Mentioned:

Info2cell
MENAFN
Reuters
LINKdotNET
Technology Partners
Al Majaz Telecom
Mobile Interactive Technologies (MIT)
CellCom
Zajil Telecom
Batelco (Bahrain )
MTC Vodafone Bahrain (Bahrain)
MTC Vodafone Kuwait (Kuwait)
Wataniya Telecom (Kuwait)
MobiNil (Egypt)
Vodafone Egypt (Egypt)
Fastlink (Jordan)
MobileCom (Jordan)
Al Jawal (Saudi Arabia)
Qtel (Qatar)
Alfa (Lebanon)
MTC-Touch (Lebanon)
Maroc Telecom (Morocco)
Medi Telecom (Morocco)
Jawwal (Palestine)
Etisalat (UAE)
Sabafon (Yemen)
Spacetel Yemen (Yemen)

For more information visit
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Research and Markets: Telecoms Industry in the Middle East Region is Slowly but Surely Shedding its Status as an Underdeveloped Overprotected or Closed Market

DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www.

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com/reports/c14599) has announced the addition
of SMS + MMS Rates and Services in the Arab World to their offering.

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New research reveals a somewhat lackluster deployment of MMS services in
the Arab region .220 respectively.com/reports/c14599

Laura Wood
Senior Manager
Research and Markets
press@researchandmarkets.

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DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
(http://www. SMS , which is widely deployed and used, is priced quite
differently across the region. Lebanon's cellular operator, Alfa (previously
Cellis), has the highest rates for national prepaid and postpaid SMS, which
are US$ 0.

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researchandmarkets. SEA-ME-WE 4 and the FLAG Falcon cable, both set to go live in
late-2005, have landing stations in a number of Middle East countries.
The report covers 34 cellular operators in the following 18 countries:
Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman,
Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen .022.

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