Fastlink partners with Info2cell.com to provide Rotana content through Advanced Symbian Application on mobile phones

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About Info2cell.com:
Info2cell.com the region's first wireless information provider was established in 1998 to fulfill the need for wireless value added services. In the year 2000, Info2cell.com reengineered and redesigned its core business, to become effectively the first Wireless Application Service Provider (W-ASP) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The content provision model was also revamped with the addition of many content providers and channels. The Acotel Group, a leading independent European Wireless Application Service Provider (WASP) and a multimedia service integrator, based in Rome, Italy, recently acquired Info2cell.com. Info2cell.com draws on the experience of Acotel in its service offering. Info2cell.com, which first launched its SMS breaking news service in Jordan in 2000, quickly moved to expand to other markets in the region, and offers its services in Egypt, UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Qatar and Oman. The company headquarters are located in the heart of the Middle-East technology hub, at Dubai Internet City (DIC), with a primary Development Center in Amman, Jordan, and editorial offices located in Amman, Beirut, Cairo and Ramallah in Palestine.

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About Fastlink:
Jordan Mobile Telephone Services Company Ltd. 'Fastlink', founded in 1995, was the first operator to introduce mobile phone services into Jordan. In just a few years, the company earned its reputation as the most progressive telecom operator in the region in terms of competitiveness and readiness to adopt new technologies and deploy cutting-edge services. Since its inception, Fastlink has tallied subscriber growth at an exponential rate, with the number of users currently exceeding 1.6 million subscribers. Through more than 1,700 cell sites, Fastlink covers the entire populated area of the Kingdom. In January 2003, Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C. (MTC) acquired Fastlink in what was considered the largest single acquisition in the Middle East area, and the largest private sector investment in Jordan.

For more information, please visit our site, www.fastlink.jo

For More information, please contact:

Fastlink- Ms. Suha Halaseh
Media Relation
Tel: 00962 6 5828100
Fax: 00962 6 5817077

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 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's aspiration did not slow down and in 2003 MTC-Vodafone Bahrain was launched with the first 3G/EDGE nationwide network in the world. In 2004 the MTC Atheer service was launched in Southern Iraq, and today covers Baghdad as well.
2004 also witnessed the government of Lebanon handing over the management of one of two mobile networks (Mic2) to the MTC Group, which is known now as mtc touch.

Most recently in March of 2005 MTC acquired Celtel International, a Duch 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 worth $ 3.36 billion.

MTC Group now operates in 18 countries. With this deal MTC Group has completed its first phase of its 3x3x3 strategy which entails becoming a global operator with more than 15 million customers by 2011. MTC will continue to expand internationally through acquisitions, partnerships and green-field opportunities.