Emirates: One million participants in mobile phones by 2000

The United Arab Emirates' corporation for communications is planning to double the number of participants in its mobile phone system (BSM) to reach one million by the end of the year 2000.

The UAE is considered at the top of Arab states that brought this service, where the lastest statistics show that the volume of the corporation's revenues amounted to one billion derhams, compared to 2 billion derham for the Saudi communications, about 275 million dollars for Qatar, and 220 million dollars for Oman.