The company, which has the widest customer base in the Kingdom with over 2 million subscribers, noted that customers with prepaid accounts will receive a courtesy credit of JD 9 today. While customers with postpaid accounts will also receive a courtesy credit of JD 9 which will be posted on the next bill.
"Fastlink has always been keen to ensure that means of communications are always available for subscribers where ever they are regardless of the circumstances," said the company's Marketing Chief Officer Mr. Bashar T. Arafeh.
He added that the company has provided free of charge communications for citizens in Lebanon during this critical time to help them stay in touch with their families and to ensure that they return home safely.
Fastlink has informed it's subscribers in Lebanon about the courtesy credit through text messages in Arabic and English.
Fastlink is one of the largest and most developed networks in the Kingdom. It has extended its mobile service across Jordan in record time. The company has broadened its roaming service to include 248 mobile operators in 112 countries in six continents. It is also the first in the Middle East to introduce the roaming information service.
MTC, Fastlink's mother company, is the largest in the region in terms of growth. It is operating in 20 countries, including Lebanon through MTC Touch, as well as Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq and Sudan. It also has presence in 14 African countries through its company which is owned by Seltel International. These countries include Chad, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda, Congo, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Gabon, Madagascar and Nigeria.
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Fastlink offers courtesy credit for subscribers in Lebanon
- Jordan: Wednesday, July 19 - 2006 at 14:18
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Due to the critical situation in Lebanon, Fastlink, one of MTC group companies took the lead and offered its subscribers in Lebanon a courtesy credit.
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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 2 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 contact:
Ms. Suha Halaseh - Fastlink
Media Relations
Tel: 00962 6 5828100 Ext: 2016
Fax: 00962 6 5817077
About MTC Group:
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 14 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. For more visit: www.mtctelecom.com
For further information:
Lara Abdul Malak
Media Relations
+9659006935
Ibrahim Adel
Investor Relations
+9659006779
Posted by Janeta Novakovic, Assistant News EditorWednesday, July 19 - 2006 at 14:18 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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