Etisalat’s mobile subscribers in the UAE have risen to 7.3 million at the end of December, implying a market share of 74 percent and a total mobile penetration of 172 percent.Fixed line subscribers grew to 1.38 million, implying a market share of 84 percent.
Rival du is estimated to have had 3.05 million subscribers, of which around 2.3 million were active, by the end of December, implying a market share of around 26 percent.
In December, du became the first UAE operator to introduce unified roaming tariffs in the GCC, whereby subscribers pay 1.25 dirhams($0.34) per minute for local and incoming calls.
In Saudi Arabia Mobily added 500,000 new active mobile subscribers during the fourth quarter, resulting in 11.4 million subscribers by the year end.
A 36 percent market share estimate is based on the assumption that Zain Saudi ended 2008 with 1.6 million active subscribers, or a 5 percent market share.
“Media reports have quoted Saad Al- Barrak, Zain Group’ s CEO, as saying that Zain Saudi ended the year with 3 million subscribers.
Source: Arabian Business
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