Mobile Use to Grow Over Next Five Years

DUBAI — Mobile penetration in Middle East is set to grow by nearly 20 per cent to 77 per cent over the next five years, according to Mark Newman, Chief Research Officer InformaTelecoms and Media.

By Aneela Batool

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Published: Mon 22 Dec 2008, 12:33 AM

Last updated: Sun 5 Apr 2015, 11:28 AM

He was addressing the 13th annual GSM- 3G congress and exhibition, under the banner, Middle East Towards a Broadband World, in Dubai recently. Over 2,000 operators, service providers, vendors, regulators gathered at multi-streamed, strategic conference and 130 stand networking exhibition.

Middle East, as a whole, is booming with mobile penetration. The mobile broadband is heralded to benefit from the same explosive growth that is being enjoyed in the west,” said Tayfun Cataltepe, Chief Corporate Strategy Officer at Turkcell.

Mobile broadband is the future of telecoms on the whole, and the term ‘broadband’ will even fall out of usage as all connectivity will become ‘broad’,” he said.

The panelists were in agreement that the mobile broadband is heralded to benefit from the same explosive growth that is being enjoyed in the west.

Slim Saidi of Zain Saudi Arabia indicated that there is significant potential for mobile broadband and that it is now just a matter of reaching those subscribers and providing access.

· aneela@khaleejtimes.com


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