Al Jazeera, Qatar based news network that become popular since Iraq war, has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson to bring headline news straight to mobile phones in both English and Arabic. The partnership will allow Al Jazeera to provide built-in RSS feed links into the software of several Sony Ericsson devices in the Middle

A price war is looming in India with Rcom slashing prepaid rates and a new all time low.  The same is similar in Qatar -but could this be opportunity knocking? The Reliance Mobile GSM plan offers Rs 900-minutes of talktime on local calls and SMS to any network that can be accrued by Reliance mobile GSM ...

Qatar Telecom (QTel) has confirmed that it will increase its holding in Indonesia's Indosat to 65% following a clarification about foreign investor rules from the Indonesian government.

The nokia 5800 mobile phone was already relevealed by Nokia partners in Qatar. Anil Mahajan, Head of Business Development from Consolidated Gulf Co, official Nokia partners, announced the most awaited Nokia phone this year in Qatar: Nokia 5800 XpressMusic is made to connect people through the one thing we all are universally connected to - music. People

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, Abu Dhabi police and Qatar's health ministry have sought to play down fears among consumers that a killer perfume is on the loose after a rumour was spread by text message to mobile phones. The text messages claimed 18 people had died after using the unnamed perfume and that another 35 had been admitted to intensive care in hospitals in Abu Dhabi and in...

Yesterday I found a pretty interesting press release on the Internet. The press release states that Consolidated Gulf Co. (CGC), the biggest retailer of mobile phones as well as the largest Telecom and IT solution provider in Qatar, has unveiled an upgraded Nokia E90 Communicator with 2GB memory. I'm not really sure if this version is officially released by Nokia or is a custom upgrade made by CGC...

An appeals court in Qatar has upheld a lower court ruling that an Egyptian should be deported after being convicted of sending indecent SMSs to a female compatriot.

Nokia Siemens Networks’ US$61 million Agreement with Qtel Contributes to Realization of Ongoing Strategy to Deliver World-Class Communication Qatar Telecom QSC (“Qtel”, Ticker: QTEL.QA), the leading telecommunications company, took another important stride towards delivering the highest standard of communications infrastructure today, with the completion of an agreement to implement a full n...

Nokia Siemens Networks says that it has won a US$61 million contract from Qatar Telecom (Qtel) to modernise its 2G and 3G networks.

Qatar based IT services firm, Mezza has announced the start of business with a QR125 million (US$34.4 million) agreement with Vodafone Qatar to provide an end-to-end turn key infrastructure solution to support Vodafone Qatar’s core telecommunications and network operations.