Increase in participants of Arab mobile networks, Emirates users rank first

A conference on GSM communications in the Arab world concluded yesterday in Cairo. The conference was attended by experts in mobile communications from 12 Arab states: Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Ali Amiri, the manager of communications at the Emirates company, said the conference discussed the current situation for mobile nets in the Arab states, and methods of accounting the bills of the international mobile.

A statistic released in the conclusion of the conference, said there has been an increase in the number of participants in the mobile phone networks, as Emirates has occupied the first position with 750,000 participants, then comes Saudi Arabia 650,000, and Egypt, with 550,000.

The representative of Egypt's Mobinil company, who was the conference's secretary genera, Othman Sultan, stated that this conference is considered a chance to exchange experiences between Arab mobile phone companies and exchange information on the most modern communications technology in the world.