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			<title>Omantel's Q3 profit edges up 1.9% to $85.2m</title>
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			<title>Omantel sees fixed line customers fall by 1.4%</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Statistics show firm's fixed line customers fall by 3,674 this year, mobile users increase.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel posts $91m net profit in Q2</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Oman telecom operator says performance is 3.25% down on same period in 2008 - statement.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel sees renting network space as 'win-win' </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[MVNOs targeting other segments of market, such as low income expats - CEO. ]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi market closes at highest level in 6 months</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 9: Abu Dhabi bourse bolstered by 6.38% rise in Dana Gas.]]></description>
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			<title>Kuwait's Zain buys majority stake in Paltel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 3: Share swap deal sees 1.5m subscribers added to customer base.]]></description>
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			<title>Taqa drags Abu Dhabi to close lower</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Dubai, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman end lower; Bahrain bucks the trend to end marginally higher.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel CEO resigns as challenges mount</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Mohammed Al Wohaibi says he has resigned from the country's largest telecoms for personal reasons.]]></description>
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			<title>Oman Telecom Q4 net drops 67% on impairment loss</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Omantel's full-year net profit attributable to shareholders rises 4.2% to $303.16m.]]></description>
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			<title>Oman government halts sale of Omantel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Decision to stop proposed sale of 25% stake was influenced by the current economic climate]]></description>
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			<title>Oman cancels sale of Omantel stake</title>
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			<title>Omantel bids for 3rd Iran mobile licence </title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Consortium for exclusive 3G and 2G rights includes unnamed local and international partners.]]></description>
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			<title>Qtel unit wins Oman fixed-line phone licence</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Nawras mobile operator has won tender to end Omantel's monopoly - company source.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel misses forecasts with 5.8% profit drop</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Omani telecom posts Q3 net income of $83.4mn, down from $88.6mn in year-earlier period.]]></description>
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			<title>Trading thin on first day of Ramadan</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Total number of shares traded on Saudi index lowest in two years, mixed fortunes elsewhere.]]></description>
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			<title>Oman telecom contenders shortlisted</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Six companies are chosen by Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) to bid for second fixed-line licence]]></description>
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			<title>Zain ponders bid for 25% Omantel stake</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Third largest Arab telecom company would rebrand Omantel if its bid goes through, reports say.]]></description>
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			<title>Oman pre-qualifies eight firms for Omantel stake</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Government to short-list four or five firms for 70 percent holding in telecom operator.]]></description>
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			<title>Emaar leads slump in region's shares</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 3: Real estate companies are hardest hit as markets have day to forget across the Gulf region.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel hopes to maintain profit level</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Telecom firm's chief executive says rise in telephone users will help margins.]]></description>
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			<title>Saudi Telecom seeks 25% stake in Omantel</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Largest Arab telecom firm to make its second major venture outside the kingdom.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel enters $400 million agreement to boost telecom efficiency</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Agreement will see an 8000km fiber optics cable being laid on the Omani coast to enhance traffic]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel seeks strategic investor</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[UPDATE 1: Omani gov't to sell 25% stake in country's largest telecom to expand international business.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel to sell 25% stake by year-end - CEO</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Omani telecom looking to sell to long-term investor, silent on interested companies.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel in UK-India cable deal</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Telecom to build $700mn undersea cable system between India and UK as part of global consortium.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel selects Nokia Siemens to improve coverage and services</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[  Network upgrade agreement worth $80-100 million]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel posts record profit on royalty cut</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Omani telecom nets biggest ever Q1 income of $99.74mn after paying less royalties and gaining users.]]></description>
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			<title>Omantel to launch 16Mbps business broadband service</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[New broadband service will offer business customers fastet broadband connection in the Gulf says Omantel  ]]></description>
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			<title>Gulf markets rebound</title>
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