Etisalat Group announced its consolidated financial results for H1 ending 30th June 2018. Consolidated revenues for first half of 2018 amounted to AED 26.2 billion representing 4% increase year over year and consolidated net profit reached AED 4.3 billion representing 6% increase year over year.
Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company PJSC ("EITC", DFM: "du") today published its financial results for the six months ended 30 June 2018 ("the period"), announcing strong growth of 4.0% in revenue to AED 6.68 billion and 18.8% in net profit after royalty to AED 965 million.
Mobily reduced its net losses from SAR 352.7 million in H1 2017 to SAR 172 million in H1 2018 representing a decrease in net losses by 51.2%. This is mainly due to the increase in gross profit driven by revenues increase and decrease in cost of sales due to the reduction of mobile termination rates.
Huawei has gained a strong partner for the development of intelligent connected vehicles. The information and communications technology company signed a memorandum of understanding for a strategic cooperation with the German automobile manufacturer Audi in Berlin today.
Telecom Egypt and Orange Egypt announced the signing of a renewal of the international telecom services agreement, which was signed in January 2015 for a period of four years. The new agreement will end in December 2022 and is expected to contribute cEGP 4bn to Telecom Egypt's top-line over the tenure of the agreement. It will also enable Orange Egypt to continue providing the best offers and international services to its customers.
Telecom Egypt and Etisalat Misr announced the signing of an amendment of the national roaming agreement sealed in June 2017. The amendment provides better financial and service quality terms availing improved commercial conditions for Telecom Egypt. The latter is a result of the development of the volume of Telecom Egypt's data traffic.
His Excellency Abdullah Al-Sawaha, Minister of CIT launched Cyber Craft, the Cybersecurity program for beginners that was organized by STC, in the Presence of Nasser Al Nasser, STC Group CEO, and Abdulaziz Alruwais Governor of CITC.
Zain Saudi has announced its financial results for Q2 and it makes for grim reading for the telecommunications colossus.
Leading pan-African telecoms group, Liquid Telecom, and Telecom Egypt, Egypt's first integrated telecom operator, announced at the 2018 Annual Meetings of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will enable Liquid Telecom to shortly complete Africa's terrestrial fiber network stretching all the way from Cape Town, South Africa, to Cairo, Egypt.
Virgin Mobile has launched its latest innovation; yearly plan options, designed to make customers mobile life simpler by offering savings of up to 50%, available exclusively via the Virgin Mobile App.
