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Article: Mobile telephony calls on Middle Eastern countries.(Middle East/Africa)(Brief Article)
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- World Trade
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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The Middle East's mobile phone market received a clear signal to move forward in October, following the award of three licenses in Iraq and new opportunities coming up in several other countries, reports the Economist Intelligence Unit. The region is one of a few in the world offering major new opportunities for investment in mobile telephony. Only four states in the region--Israel, Turkey, Bahrain and the UAE--can boast mobile penetration rates of more than 50 percent, and in many countries there are fewer that ten mobile users per 100 ...