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Honoring excellence: Zain Group’s Sam Deeb awarded ‘MENA CFO of the Year’
Mr Sam Deeb, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the Zain Group has been awarded the prestigious ‘MENA CFO of the Year’ at the annual CFO Middle East Forum organized by the Monaco based Naseba Group. The award acknowledges excellence in finance and recognizes the contribution the CFO has made towards the outstanding success of their organization...
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Zain scoops Triple Crown at Telecom World Awards
Zain scooped three of the most prestigious prizes at the 3rd Annual Telecoms World Awards, Middle East held in Dubai and organized by Terrapinn. The company won the prize for Best Operator, Best Brand and was deemed to have the Best Technical Innovation for its ground breaking, borderless ‘One Network’ service...
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Connected: Zain’s ‘One Network’ expands to Egypt
Zain announces the expansion of its ground breaking ‘One Network’ platform to Egypt in a strategic partnership with Mobinil. Over 27 million Zain customers in Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait*, Saudi Arabia and Sudan can now benefit from ‘One Network’ services when visiting Egypt for business or pleasure with a reciprocal benefit for Mobinil’s 24 million customers when visiting any of these Zain countries...
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Zain trio make the top 100 of most influential global telecom leaders
Leading industry magazine Global Telecoms Business (GTB) has ranked Dr Saad Al Barrak in 20th position in its Top 100 most influential telecom executives for 2009, up nine places on his 2008 ranking. Two other senior Zain executives, Zain Africa CEO Chris Gabriel and the company’s Chief Business Development Officer, Salah Al Fouzan, were ranked 46th and 95th respectively. The rankings published by the London based magazine are yet another indicator of Zain’s growing influence in the international telecom sector and further evidence that the company’s bid to be a global top ten mobile operator by 2011 is gathering momentum.
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Zain Group’s website among the very best in the GCC
The website of the Zain Group (www.zain.com), the leading mobile telecom operator in the Middle East and Africa, has been ranked 3rd best site in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The inaugural “GCC Webranking” survey of the top 85 blue chip GCC companies was conducted by on-line consultancy Hallvarsson & Halvarsson’s (H&H) who specializes in such rankings across the globe...
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Zain sponsored ‘Mandela Day’ concert in New York rocks the world
Zain, the leading mobile telecommunications in Africa and the Middle East was once again proud to sponsor the ‘Mandela Day’ concert, celebrating Nelson Mandela’s 91st birthday held at New York’s Radio City Music Hall on July 18 that was attended by many famous world celebrities that saw performances by many artists and was watched by a global television audience exceeding one billion....
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Zain wins two major prizes at prestigious Global Telecoms Business awards
Zain scooped up two major prizes at the prestigious 2009 Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Awards at a gala ceremony in London last week. The event was attended by over 350 industry leaders from across the globe. Zain’s Zap mobile commerce service won the Innovation in Mobile Banking award, while Zain Group CEO Dr Saad Al Barrak won the Editor’s Lifetime Achievement Award for personal contribution to the telecommunications industry...
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Zain launches mobile services in Ghana
Zain announced today the commencement of commercial services in Ghana with the launch of the first 3.5G network on the continent outside South Africa. Zain Ghana’s network will offer its customers ultra high-speed internet access and for the first time in Ghana the ability to make video-calls and use rich multimedia content including sending video clips, music and pictures at the touch of a button. Zain’s 3.5G network will give Ghanaians a new lifestyle option. Today marks the launch in Accra, the country’s capital city, with over US$ 420 million invested in network infrastructure Zain will be rapidly rolling out the network across the country.
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Zain scoops two major prizes at inaugural AfricaCom Awards
The inaugural AfricaCom Awards held in Cape Town, South Africa recently saw Zain Group awarded the Best Pan African Initiative Campaign of the Year Award recognizing the world’s first borderless mobile network: ‘One Network’ which now links 16 countries across two continents. Zain also scooped the Best Marketing campaign of the year for the seamless launch of the Zain brand, across 14 operations in one day, simultaneously linking all locations via satellite link a first ever on the African continent...
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Three prestigious awards for Zain Group CEO, Dr Al Barrak
Zain Group CEO, Dr. Saad Al Barrak, scooped up three awards in October: Africa Investor International Business Leader award, CEO Middle East magazine’s Telecom CEO of the Year award and Bespoke magazine’s 2008 Visionary award. In winning the Africa Investor International Business Leader award in a ceremony held in Durban, South Africa, Dr Al Barrak beat off stiff challenges from such global luminaries as Kingdom Holding’s Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal; Coca-Cola’s Chairman, Neville Isdell; China Exim Bank’s President Li Ruogu; Shun Tak Shipping’s Founder Stanley Ho and General Electric’s Chairman, Jeff Immelt.
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Dr Saad Al Barrak one of the most influential Telecom executives over the century
Leading industry magazine Global Telecoms Business has ranked Dr Saad Al Barrak in 29th position most influential telecom executive over the century in its top 100 survey placing him first among his Middle East & African peers...
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Neil Armstrong takes Zain’s annual ACE management meeting to the moon
The highlight of the annual Zain management ACE meeting, held in Jordan at the Dead Sea’s King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Centre, was an inspirational speech given by Neil Armstrong, who in 1969, became the first man to walk on the moon. The meeting was held under the auspices of and attended by the Jordanian Prime Minister, Eng. Nader Dahabi; the Minister of Information and Communications Technology, Bassem Rousan and the CEO of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Dr Ahmed Hiasat.
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Zain wins Global Telecoms Business Innovation Award with ‘One Network’
Zain, the leading mobile telecommunications operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, has won the Global Telecoms Business Wireless network infrastructure innovation award for ‘One Network’, the world’s first borderless mobile telecoms network service. The announcement was made today at the Global Telecoms Business Awards in London...
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Zain goes live in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Zain, the leading mobile operator in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa announces the launch of commercial services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, commencing August 26, 2008. With the launch, the Kingdom joins and connects to Group’s renowned and world’s first borderless mobile service ‘One Network’ offering over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries favorable rates for cross-border communications...
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Global aspirations: Zain rebrands Celtel Africa operations
Zain Group, the leading telecommunications mobile operator servicing over 50 million customers in 22 countries across the Middle East and Africa, today announced it has re-branded its entire African operations from Celtel to Zain (www.zain.com). The move coincides with the linking of the world’s first borderless mobile service ‘One Network’ across two continents.
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Zain Wins Best Telecom Operator in Africa Award
Zain subsidiary Celtel won the award for the Best Telecoms Operator in Africa at the prestigious 2008 Business in Africa Awards held in London recently, beating a host of other operators to win the award. The awards aimed at highlighting the growth and potential of the business landscape across Africa, while rewarding excellence and world-class best practices across the continent...
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Zain stands tall at historic concert honouring Nelson Mandela at 90
The Zain Group, the leading mobile telecommunications company in the Middle East and Africa, sponsored a vast outdoor concert in Hyde Park, London, honoring former President of South Africa and Nobel Prize winner, Mr Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his 90th birthday. The event was not short on emotion. It was the famous statesman’s final public appearance but of equal importance was the fact that it raised much-needed funds for charity, primarily through Mandela’s 46664* campaign and the motto, “It’s in our hands”...
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Mobile telephony to reach 400,000 people in remote African villages
At a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya….Zain, Ericsson and the Earth Institute announced the provision of telecommunications deliverables to the Millennium Villages of Dertu (Kenya), Ruhiira (Uganda) and Molla (Tanzania). The initiatives were first outlined in September 2007 at Columbia University, when Zain, Ericsson and the Earth Institute announced a partnership to provide mobile communications and Internet connectivity to the Millennium Villages projects covering up to 400,000 people in 10 sub-Saharan African countries where the project is working...
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Zain, Ericsson, GSMA to save lives on Lake Victoria by extending coverage
The 200,000 fisherman that work on Lake Victoria will soon have the opportunity to use mobile phones to call for help if they get into trouble on the world’s second largest inland lake. Pan-Africa mobile operator Celtel, a subsidiary of Zain, and Ericsson, in an initiative coordinated by the GSMA’s Development Fund, have committed to extend the mobile networks across the Lake Victoria region, fuelling economic and social development of the lakeside communities and potentially reducing the number of fishing-related deaths each year...
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Iraq mobile operators MTC Atheer and Iraqna unite as Zain
Beginning today, two Iraqi mobile telecommunications networks - MTC Atheer and Iraqna - change their names to Zain (www.zain.com) as both operators adopt the new corporate master brand of the Zain Group (formerly MTC), the leading mobile telecommunications operator in 22 countries serving 42.5 million customers across the Middle East and Africa. Serving over seven million customers, Zain in Iraq becomes the fifth Group operation to be re-branded joining the Group’s other operations in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain and Sudan that were successfully renamed Zain on September 8, 2007...
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