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Articles tagged with: Roaming and Zain
Cross-group tariffs: good PR but not much else
Opinion by Emeka Obiodu, senior analyst at Ovum
Prior to 2006, roaming used to be a convoluted process – at least that's
what operators claimed. And they could charge as much as they wanted. When the
EU began to ask for lower rates, operators retorted that roaming was expensive
to administer and difficult to implement. Then Zain (formerly Celtel) came along
with its ‘One Network' concept. It removed roaming charges for its customers
across Africa, demystified roaming and earned a resounding endorsement from The
Economist. The citation read: " Zain Group has in effect created a unified
market of the kind that regulators can only dream about in Europe."
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Zain Saudi Arabia Passes 2 Million Subscriber Mark
..as the One Network allowing mobile telephony free of roaming charges for Zain travelling customers. The promising results to date are just the beginning of better things to come and we will be relentless in enhancing our product offerings attra more
Related Tags: ipo, one-network, gsm, zain-group, Saudi Arabia
Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village
..e also been used to find child herders who have become lost roaming over vast distances in search of feed. The social impact has also been significant, bringing families closer to distant relatives, providing vital local connections for better h more
Related Tags: sim-card, sim, solar-power, itu, wind, ericsson, villages, Kenya
Bahrain Issues New Instruction for Roaming Mobile Subscribers
..ued an order to the country's telecoms networks requiring them to offer more information about roaming costs when customers are overseas. As soon as the home network is aware that a customer is roaming overseas, they will be required to send a more
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Zain Launches HSPA Network in Ghana
..he new network will also be part of Zain's ‘One NetworkĂ' which offers borderless roaming across Zain networks in Africa and the Middle-East. At launch, Ghanaian Zain customers can access the One Network service when travelling to Burkina more
Related Tags: vodafone, mtn, hspa, one-network, ghana-telecom, zain-ghana, tigo, Ghana
Four Firms Bidding for Rwanda's 3rd GSM License
..nda launched seamless roaming services with MTN Uganda, Safaricom in Kenya and Vodacom in Tanzania. A Libyan company, Lap Green Networks won a tender to buy 80% of Rwanda's Rwandatel after agreeing to pay US$100 million and invest a minimum of U more
Related Tags: mtn, mtn-uganda, ict, orascom-telecom, vodacom, telecel, millicom, orascom, Rwanda
Zain Launching Saudi Arabian Network Tomorrow
..ile network in Saudi Arabia tomorrow (26th August), and connect it to the group's borderless roaming service, One Network. At launch date, ZainĂ's coverage area will initially cover 53% of the population in 36 major cities and 14 highways spann more
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Zain Employing 8,000 Staff to Protect its Base Stations
..ltel to Zain and the expansion of the network operators borderless roaming service. The operator was recently ordered to offer free airtime worth N175 (US$1.50) to each subscriber due to problems with network reliability. For comparison, accor more
Related Tags: arpu, mtn, base-stations, celtel, towers, Nigeria
Zain Still Interested in South Africa - in Talks with Indian Operators
..and also sits right next to Zain's contiguous roaming network would not be unreasonable. If such a move occurred, the most likely target would be MobiNil, which is listed on the Cairo stock exchange (29%) - and has two main shareholders, Orasco more
Related Tags: france-telecom, orascom-telecom, cell-c, orascom, cairo, South Africa
Celtel to Rebrand as Zain Throughout Africa
.. ten global mobile telecommunications companies by 2011." The borderless roaming service will also bow be available to 500 million people stretching from the west coast of Africa to the Middle East, covering an area larger than the United Stat more
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