MTC Group shares global vision at ATIF 2005

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About MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) was founded in 1983 and today is one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa, with more than 9.5 million customers in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, and 13 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. MTC is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange. In September 2002, MTC entered into a Partner Network Agreement with Vodafone, the world's leading mobile community in Kuwait, creating MTC Vodafone Kuwait. In 2003, MTC continued its expansion with the acquisition of 96.4% of Fastlink in Jordan.

MTC-Vodafone Bahrain was launched in 2003 with the first 3G/EDGE nationwide network in the world. In 2004 the MTC Atheer service was launched in southern Iraq, and today it covers Baghdad as well. 2004 also saw the Government of Lebanon hand over the management of one of the two mobile networks (Mic2) to the MTC Group; the network is now known as mtc touch.

Most recently in March 2005, MTC acquired Celtel International, a Dutch communications network company with major interests in 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, in one of the biggest telecom deals in the Middle East and Africa; the deal was worth $US3.36 billion, and the MTC Group now operates in 18 countries. MTC group has now completed the first phase of its 3X3X3 strategy, which will see MTC become a global operator with more than 15 million customers by 2011. MTC will continue to expand internationally through acquisitions, partnerships and green-field opportunities.