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Apart from regulatory developments, the upcoming increase in wholesale
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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. The
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wholesale prices and result in cheaper prices for end-user services .

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This level of development and liberalisation is reflected in the telecom
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the telecoms market until 2013, to Israel's total market liberalisation, to
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