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We are waiting for the final approval of the shareholding structure that the government wants to run. We expect to have this by the end of the year,

Vodafone Qatar does not expect its fixed line services to be fully operational until 2011 or 2012 after delays in receiving approval for the country’s second national operator (SNO) licence that it won in 2008, the company’s chief executive said, as reported by Dow Jones Newswires

With a high mobile penetration rate of around 170%, we expect mobile subscriber growth rate in Qatar to mirror expected population growth rate of around 3.7% per annum going forward

3m mark this year, with the country counting a total population of 1.9m people

Consumers in Qatar can now retain their existing mobile phone number when switching service providers, increasing the competition between incumbent Qtel and Vodafone Qatar.

2.794mn mobile subscribers in Qatar at the end of December 2011. This was a penetration rate of 149.4%, down from 157.1% in 2010

positive growth over the next five years, albeit at a slower rate, mobile penetration is forecast to trend downwards as population growth outstrips net additions. By

Also, as a result of liberalisation in the telecoms market, we expect to see high speed internet penetration rise from its current rate of 37% to approximately 56% by 2012.”