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Yemen Telecom News
China Mobile-led consortium wins Yemen’s third GSM license (From telegeography.com, October 3, 2005)
- A consortium
comprising China Mobile and local Yemeni investors has won Yemen’s
third mobile GSM license with a bid of USD150 million, according to Reuters.
The offer outbid rival submissions from Omantel,
which offered USD101.5 million, and four other companies, and marks the
first license win for the Chinese outside its home market. SyriaTel, Millicom
International Cellular and Wataniya were also
linked to the tender process.
Siemens signs $7.8 million
contract with SabaFon (From menareport.com, October 30, 2002)
- Siemens
Information and Communication Mobile Network Group have signed a new
contract with SabaFon in Yemen, worth eight million euros ($7.8 million), to expand its GSM
Network, stated a press release.
Siemens' partnership with SabaFon started in
2000. Since then, Siemens has implemented a full turnkey GSM network in Yemen, including mobile switching centers, base stations systems and microWave systems. Recently, SabaFon
announced the first 100,000 subscribers mark and Siemens is already
providing additional capacity to cater for 250,000 subscribers.
Siemens offers a range of mobile solutions including mobile devices,
infrastructure and applications. Devices include mobile phones, wireless
modules, mobile organizers and cordless phones as well as products for
wireless home networks.
The infrastructure portfolio includes GSM, GPRS and 3G mobile network
technologies from base stations and switching systems to intelligent
networks for prepaid services. Mobile applications cover solutions for
messaging, location based services or mobile payment. For the fiscal year
2001, the group recorded sales of €11.3 billion and employed 30,730
people worldwide.
Orascom Telecom sells stake in Yemen’s Sabafon
(From
menareport.com, September 19, 2002)
- Egypt’s Orascom Telecom Holding (OT) announced that it has sold
its 32 percent stake in SabaFon, Yemen’s GSM
mobile communications operator to the Al-Ahmar
Group. The company did not disclose further details regarding the
transaction.
Al-Ahmar also acquired the shares of Hellascom in Sabafon. Sabafon's subscriber base had reached 89,000 at the end
of the first quarter of the year 2002. “With the completion of this
transaction, all litigation between the parties will be dropped, in
addition to the legal actions against the former employees of Sabafon,” stated an OT press release.
Over the past year, Orascom Telecom has also been
trying to sell its loss making Sub-Saharan Africa subsidiary, Telecel, in a bid to decrease its debt burden and
streamline operations. OT is a GSM telecommunications and internet services
operator in the Middle East, Africa and the Indian
sub-continent.
Yemen gets switched on by Alcatel (from itp.net, August 3, 2001)
- Yemen’s
rapid expansion of its telephone network continues apace, after a new deal
with Alcatel to add another 164,000 lines across the country.
Under the contract, the French telecom giant will
supply Yemen’s Public Telecommunications
Corporation (PTC) with 21 high capacity Alcatel 1000 Multimedia Multiservices switches.
“PTC has decided to upgrade its entire network with
the aim of providing even better service to its clients, said Yemen’s
minister of communications, Abdul Malak Al Mua’limi.
“With the Alcatel 1000 MM system, we will enable our
customers to access high-speed Internet access and multimedia services.
“Furthermore, these new systems will significantly
raise our network capacity and will reduce drastically our costs in network
engineering and operating systems.
Each node on the Alcatel 1000 MM platform carries an
extra 30% reserve capacity, allowing for the addition of extra subscribers
without the need for expensive new infrastructure additions.
New
Siemens service in Yemen (from the
khaleejtimes.com, July 14, 2001)
SANAA
— Siemens and Sabafon have launched
anywhere call service from mobile phone users in Yemen.
According
to a Press release, Sabafon customers in Yemen are now able
to make and receive calls on their Yemeni phone numbers even when they are outside
the country. To date, there are more than 13,000 GSM subscribers with Sabafon and that number is expected to increase with
the enhancements that GSM roaming brings.
"In
the recent past, Beb El Yemen has been opened to
provide the connection between old Sana'a, an insight into early human
civilization, and all visitors coming from the different regions of the
world. Now, Sabafon opens the Roaming feature to
provide once again, the gate that will connect Yemen and the rest
of the world through mobile telephony. We are proud to be the meeting point
between tradition and technology," said Hassan
Kabbani, CEO of Sabafon
in Yemen.
Boost
to Yemen phone lines (from the
itp.net, July 12, 2001)
Yemen’s terrestrial
network has been greatly expanded, with thousands of new lines installed
during the last month.
22,000 fixed lines were installed in Sana’a general secretariat over
the last four weeks, according to Ismael Al Aawmi, general manager of the Public Telecommunications
Corporation.
"This comes along a couple of ambitious steps to make a big progress
in the level of telecommunications," he said.
"Work is going on to expand the switched in some of the city’s
avenues. This expansion coincides with the important steps to ease
subscription procedures through opening new offices that offer subscribers
the service."
Jetcom 2001 To Open Next Month (from the Yemen Observer, March 25, 2001)
SANA’A
- Final touches for the opening of the third Al Jazirah
Exhibition for Information and Telecommunications Techniques (Jetcom.2001)
are almost over. The exhibition is to be organised
by the Apollo International Exhibitions during the period April 8-13 at
Expo Centre of Sana'a.
Mr.
Omer Al Nahmi, Marketing Manager of Apollo
Company told the Yemen Observer that the exhibition is being organised for the third consecutive time after scoring
great success and huge attendance during the years 1999 and 2000.
"The
difference," Mr. Nahmi added" is vast
as this time giant companies operating in the field of computer,
telecommunications and office furniture shall be participating
vigorously." This year's exhibition will be remarkable by the
admission of the GSM Yemen, he said.
Companies
to take part are: Tihama Company, Canon, Sabafon and their agents, Spacetel
Yemen and their
agents, Assalam Corporation, Net Technology, Aptech Computer Company, the Yemeni Company for
Construction, Sam Company and other companies along with trade centres.
It is
note worthy that during the exhibition period scientific forums and
seminars as well as introductory sessions, by participant delegate of
international companies, shall be held.
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