Loading ...No lift on Skype ban in the UAE
By Kipp • Mar 15th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business NewsTelecoms regulator says only local operators such as Etisalat and du will be allowed to offer customers international ‘voice over internet’ services.
Posts Tagged ‘Du’
Telecoms regulator says only local operators such as Etisalat and du will be allowed to offer customers international ‘voice over internet’ services.
Mobile numbers
By Ben Flanagan • Mar 7th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, poll resultsConsumers say they are reluctant to swap cell phone operators if they are not allowed to take their numbers with them.
Calling in cheaper rates
By Aarti Nagraj • Mar 1st, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, Nation, The Work, telecomThe UAE has just approved the license for its third telecoms operator, Yahsat. Will this lead to a greater variety of services and lower prices for consumers?
Telcos call time on the recession
By Ben Flanagan • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, telecomThe UAE has more cellphone lines per person than anywhere else on Earth. No wonder the two phone operators have engaging plans for the future.
Du’s revenue up 35 percent in 2009
By Kipp • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe telecom operator announced that its net profits reached AED528 million in 2009.
A great telephonic leapfrog… backwards
By Kipp • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Kipp's BlogTelecoms operator du launched a new prepaid landline tariff today. The news may prompt many UAE residents to ask, ‘what’s a landline?’
du launches cheap landline call rates
By Ben Flanagan • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business NewsInternational calls start at 60 fils/minute on new ‘One World One Rate’ tariff.
Breaking the du-opoly
By Ben Flanagan • Jan 26th, 2010 • Category: Cover Story, telecomBroadband is up to fourteen times more expensive in the UAE compared with other markets. But an expected price war between telcos Etisalat and du could save consumers serious money.
UAE to introduce VoIP services “soon”
By Kipp • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is planning to…
Du and Etisalat agree to ban list of websites for Blackberry users
By Kipp • Dec 27th, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe UAE’s telecommunications companies, du and Etisalat, have agreed on a list of websites…
Du and Etisalat cover Burj Dubai
By Kipp • Dec 23rd, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe UAE telecommunication firms, du and Etisalat, announced on Wednesday that they…
UAE: Mobile subscribers hit 7.44 million end of Q3
By Kipp • Nov 30th, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe number of mobile phone subscribers to the UAE’s communications providers...
Calling new numbers
By Aarti Nagraj • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Nation, The Work, telecomMobile operator du has entered into an agreement with global operator Vodafone to share technologies and develop products.
Ringing it in
By Aarti Nagraj • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Nation, The Work, telecomTelecom operators in the UAE have weathered the crisis well, and now seem set for further growth.
UAE: VoIP may be legalized by year end, says TRA official
By Kipp • Oct 18th, 2009 • Category: Middle East Business NewsThe Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is working on a policy to make international internet...
