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    <title>Mobily teams with nine other providers for Global Meeting Alliance</title>
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        Saudi Arabia’s second telecoms operator, Mobily, together with nine global service providers, have announced the launch of an open ecosystem of leading telecom providers that have aligned to interconnect their respective business video communities, Saudi Gazette has reported. The Global Meeting Alliance comprises Sprint, Glowpoint and TELUS in North America, Safaricom in Africa, Telstra in Australia, Etisalat, Qtel, Tata Communications and Neotel in South Africa. The network allows any service provider to connect to enterprises and institutions on all major continents, irrespective of service provider, following a similar business model to the airline alliance networks.
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        Etisalat has announced its GCC roaming tariffs have been reduced by 26% on outgoing calls made when travelling within the GCC countries, Gulf News has reported. The new rates, which takes effect today, apply to both prepaid and postpaid customers, the telecoms firm said "This decrease in tariff would essentially mean that UAE travellers will now choose an operator for roaming entirely on the basis of quality of service and coverage rather than pricing, since GCC roaming charges for both operators are the same now," said Hasan Sandila, a telecom analyst at IDC.
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    <title>Oman telecom operator posts flat Q4 profits, subscribers down, revenue up</title>
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        Omani telecoms operator Nawras has reported flat quarterly profits, as subscriber numbers declined but revenues edged slightly higher, Reuters has reported. The firm, majority owned by Qtel, made net profit of OR11.9m for the quarter ended December 30, unchanged from the prior-year period. Mobile and fixed subscribers numbers fell to 1.96 million at the end of 2011 from 2.03 million in 2010. Revenue in the quarter was OR50.8m, up from OR49.9m a year earlier, Nawras said.
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        The Saudi unit of Kuwait’s Zain has said it has secured the approval to extend the maturity of its SR9.75bn ($2.6bn) Islamic financing facility for an additional six months, Reuters has reported. "Saudi Arabia Zain announces that it has secured unanimous consent on January 25 from its Murabaha investors to extend the maturity of its approximately SR9.75bn Murabaha facility...The facility will now mature on July 27, 2012," it said.
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        Sony’s first smartphone and the first from the new Xperia NXT series, the Xperia S is set to be launched in Qatar by Fifty One East across its outlets located in Al Maha centre, City Centre Doha and Lagoona Mall before the end of first quarter 2012, Gulf Times has reported. The Xperia S features a high resolution screen, full Sony HD, powerful 1.5GHz dual-core processor for faster performance and a 12MP camera that takes pictures in just about 1.5 seconds from standby mode. 
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