This survey was conducted in
cooperation with D3 Systems of Vienna, Va.
Alhurra TV is broadcast on the Nilesat and Arabsat satellites, the same
satellites used by the major regional Arabic channels. It is also available in
Baghdad on Channel 12 and in Basra on Channel 3.radiosawa.

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Radio Sawa alone reached 51 percent of Iraqi adults making it the most
listened to radio station in Iraq.com.

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The margin of error is approximately two percent.E.

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The majority of viewers of Alhurra TV and listeners to Radio Sawa
considered their news to be reliable.newscom . We believe
that this choice is important to satisfy all our customers' needs.

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Alhurra was launched in
February 2004, as an Arabic-language alternative source of news and
information.
Radio Sawa streams its programming at its all-news Web site http://www.researchandmarkets.

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Radio
Sawa was also cited as their # 1 source of radio news by 32 percent of
respondents in the survey followed by the BBC Arabic Service (13 percent) and
Radio Monte Carlo (nine percent." (MBN).S. The BBG serves oversight and as a firewall to protect the
professional independence and integrity of the broadcasters.

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This survey along with other surveys in
eleven other countries in the Middle East by research companies such as
ACNielsen and Ipsos show that together Alhurra and Radio Sawa have an
unduplicated weekly reach of more than 35 million adults.
Alhurra maintains a large news bureau in Baghdad which is both the
coordination point for its nationwide network of correspondents and the
origination point for interviews and roundtables on issues facing Iraq today.

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The station can also be heard
throughout the country on medium wave (AM). Policies
Regional expansion by local players
Infrastructure, GSM, CDMA, GSM, iDEN
Satellite Mobile, Push-to-Talk
Mobile Data Services, SMS, MMS, WAP, M-Commerce
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Iran has a huge unmet demand for mobiles, evident by the run out of new
blocks of SIM cards within days of issue and the exorbitant prices paid for
mobile SIM cards on the black market, but challenges lie ahead due to the
change in power to a conservative-dominated government.

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Coface EuroDB - covers 880,000 Belgian companies sourcing data
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Belgian National Social Security Office

Coface Intercredit - offers reports on 4.8 million companies
in Slovenia, Slovakia , Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland,
Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria, including a credit rating ,
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The audience figures reported today confirmed similar findings in earlier
studies done in Iraq in 2004 and 2005. Government
through a grant from the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) , an independent
federal agency.

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, Alhurra TV and Radio Sawa
together reach an unduplicated weekly audience of 71 percent of Iraqi adults
15 and older according to an independent survey released today .

Information about MBN
Alhurra is operated by the non-profit corporation "The Middle East
Broadcasting Networks, Inc. Topics detailed in the report include the following:

Regional mobile market developments and analysis
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Third generation (3G) mobile services have taken off in a number of countries
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The only four stations with larger
weekly TV audiences than Alhurra were Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiya, Al-Iraqiya (each
with 71 percent weekly reach) and Al-Sharqiya (67 percent weekly reach). DUBLIN, Ireland, Research and Markets
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The increasingly crowded regional mobile market has not only diversified
the availability and increased the sophistication of services offered, but has
also led to two major regional players looking afar for growth opportunities,
namely the African continent.

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Alhurra alone reached 42 percent of Iraqi
adults weekly, ranking fifth among the more than 200 satellite and terrestrial
TV stations that can be viewed in Iraq.
The results are based on over 2,000 face-to-face interviews with randomly
selected respondents using internationally accepted standard sampling methods.alhurra.
MBN also operates Radio Sawa which seeks to effectively communicate with
the youthful population of Arabic-speakers in the Middle East by providing up-
to-date news, information and a mix of Western and Arabic popular music on its
24/7 FM and medium wave radio stations throughout the region.
Saudi Arabia has also made significant progress in the mobile market with
a second GSM licence awarded with plans to award a third licence in late-2006.

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Alhurra and Radio Sawa Reaching 71 Percent of Iraqis

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research company operating throughout the Middle East and North Africa, with
offices in Iraq, Turkey and Belgium. Radio Sawa is committed to
broadcasting accurate, timely and relevant news about the Middle East, the
world and the United States, to the highest standards of journalism, as well
as the free marketplace of ideas, respect for the intelligence and culture of
its audience, and a style that is upbeat, modern and forward-looking.
Radio Sawa broadcasts on FM in Iraq in the cities of Baghdad, Basra,
Mosul, Nasiriya, Sulimaniya and Erbil . Radio Sawa also broadcasts on FM
in Morocco (Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier, Meknes, Marrakesh, Agadir and Fes),
Jordan (Amman and Ajlun), Palestinian territories (Ramallah), Kuwait (Kuwait
City), Bahrain (Manama), Qatar (Doha), U.A. Radio Sawa broadcasts on medium wave (AM) to Egypt, Yemen and Sudan .com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040820/RESEARCH )
This annual report provides an insight into the disparate mobile markets
of the Middle East. African countries
as well as Caribbean islands

Coface MOPE - a database on more than 1,800,000 Portugese
companies compiles reports including commercial and financial
information and a default probability evaluation

RIME Information Bureau Ltd - provides credit reports on
companies based in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia , Iran, Iraq,
Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Kazakhstan,
Yugoslavia , Macedonia, Algeria, Cyprus, Egypt, Morocco,
Tunisia, Libya.

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(Abu Dhabi and Dubai), and
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Seventy -three percent of Alhurra's
weekly viewers said the news on the channel was reliable and 63 percent of
Radio Sawa's weekly listeners said that station's news was reliable. Unlike the all-news networks Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, Alhurra
carries a wide range of current affairs programs (covering Iraqi and
international news) as well as documentaries and other informational
programming on a wide variety of subjects, including health and personal
fitness, entertainment news, sports, fashion and science and technology.

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The survey was
conducted nationwide in Iraq during November and December 2005.