Regional Mobile Operator which operates in Jordan has announced the date iPhone 5 will be available in Jordan. It is December 14th with pre-orders early next week. Which is the same date STC in Saudi Arabia has announced. If this tells anything it means that operators in the region are getting iPhone 5 the same date as everyone.
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Zain the leading regional Arab mobile operators announced today that it will start providing a number of streets in Amman with free Wi-Fi services.
Zain has previously covered Wakalat street in Sawafiah area in Amman, it plans to add Rainbo street in first circle area, the southern gate street of Jordan university which is usually busy with st...
For some it is a sad day, for others it is a new endeavor, today Indian conglomerate Bharti has officially closed its deal with Kuwait based Telecom operator Zain, with its acquisition of all Zain’s mobile operations in 15 countries across Africa for an valuation of USD10.7 billion. Zain’s African covered 15 countries with a total cust...
As a followup to our last post about Zain's Jordan launching Ibda3 a startup incubator Dr. Abdul Malik Al Jaber CEO of Zain Levant Region along with Reem also from Zain were kind to answer via email our questions and provide more information about the program:
AC: What type of support you provide the startups? funding? resources what type?...
Zain Jordan a branch of one of the largest mobile operators in the world has announced launching Ibda3 program; Ibda3 an incubator program for youth between 18 to 25 years old.
Zain's website says that the program provides "highly combined business development processes, tools & specialists, teamed up to nurture and support the early s...
Update: Kzalek was on private beta, the download link has expired, sorry for late update it was a miss communication with its founder.
Last month, I nagged and was wondering why the current Twitter AIR based Desktop apps such as TweetDeck and Seesmic do not support Arabic text on Mac or Linux? But now I can breathe the sigh of relief. ( Arabi...
I do not understand why some people clone something famous, well this is somehow the case of WeziWezi, the new twitter like microblogging, 1 to 1 and group messaging project that was just launched in Beta stage from Amman, Jordan.
Right now, WeziWezi has the same features you already find on Twitter and its other regional clone WatWet but wi...
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Update: (Sorry guys there was miss understanding, It is a source/s inside and outside Zain who confirmed that Zain is in talks with Twitter for SMS notifications deal across their branches in the region. As for Zain PR they wrote on an email, that SMS c...
In August 2008, Juniper Research forecasted that Service Provider revenues, derived from mobile money transfer services and remittances, will exceed $5bn globally by 2013. While the research firm Informa, predicts that by the same year, more than 424 million mobile users will be sending money to other mobile users in the same country via their mobi...
As The Kuwaiti cellular market awaits the launch of the third mobile operator Viva by the end of 2008. A new report from Arab Advisors Group titled "Kuwait Communications Projections Report ", projects cellular subscribers to grow at a CAGR of 9.4% from 2008 to 2012, reaching 4.37 million and a penetration rate of 97.2%. Kuwait’s telecom mark...
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