MTC Group saves USD15 million USD using revenue assurance project

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About MTC
MTC is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East and now a major player on the African continent. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the region's first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our "3x3x3" expansion strategy in 2002, we have expanded rapidly.

As a leading mobile and data services operator in 6 Middle Eastern and 14 sub-Saharan African countries with 9000 employees, we provide a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 21 million individual and business customers.

We operate in Kuwait and Bahrain as mtc-vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, in Sudan as Mobitel and in 15 sub-Saharan countries in Africa as Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Nigeria.

Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code; Tele), MTC's market capitalization exceeded US$11.8 billion as of May 1st 2006.

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