Next Generation Services Now
  AfricaCom 2010
Nov. 10-11, 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

Zain Group

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Zain is a leading emerging markets player in the field of telecommunications aiming to become one of the top ten mobile operators in the world by 2011. Today it is the 4th largest mobile network in the world in terms of geographical footprint with commercial presence in 24 countries spread across the Middle East and Africa providing mobile voice and data services to 64.7 million active customers as at 31 March 2009.

Zain operates in the following countries: Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Iraq, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. In Lebanon, the company manages the network on behalf of the government operating as mtc-touch. In Morocco, Zain in a joint venture, owns 31% of Wana Telecom. On May 18, 2009, Zain entered into a merger agreement with Palestinian Telecommunication Company Plc (Paltel) that will result in Zain attaining 56.5% of the company subjective to regulatory approvals.

Zain offers innovative services in its markets such as One Network, the world’s first borderless mobile telecommunications network enabling customers to receive calls and SMS without charge and to make them at local rates throughout many countries in Africa and the Middle East. Customers can also top up their mobiles with airtime bought in their home country or from more than 1,000,000 outlets across 18 countries.

The Zain brand is wholly owned by Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC, which is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Stock ticker: ZAIN). Zain is listed in the Financial Times’ Global 500 Index which ranks the world’s largest companies based on market capitalization. For more, please visit www.zain.com.

About Zain Nigeria

Formerly known as Celtel Nigeria, the company was established in 2000, by a group of institutional and private investors as well as three state governments.
                              
It made history on August 5, 2001 by becoming the first telecoms operator to launch commercial GSM services in Nigeria. In 2006, following Celtel International’s acquisition of majority stake in the company, it was re-branded as Celtel and became an important part of Celtel’s pan-African operations spanning 14 countries.

On August 1, 2008 Celtel Nigeria was rebranded as Zain Nigeria following the global acquisition of Celtel International by MTC Group, which transformed to Zain Group.

Zain Nigeria, which currently covers over 1500 towns and 14000 communities across the six geopolitical zones of the country, scored a series of many other "firsts" in the highly competitive Nigerian telecommunications market. For more, please visit www.ng.zain.com.

Releated Press Releases
Bullet Zain Nigeria Chooses Telenity’s Mobile Collect Call Application