Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel)

Oman Telecoms sees OR9.2m one-off charge after offering voluntary redundancies in a bid to cut costs.

Statistics show firm's fixed line customers fall by 3,674 this year, mobile users increase.

MVNOs targeting other segments of market, such as low income expats - CEO.

UPDATE 3: Share swap deal sees 1.5m subscribers added to customer base.

Mohammed Al Wohaibi says he has resigned from the country's largest telecoms for personal reasons.

Decision to stop proposed sale of 25% stake was influenced by the current economic climate

Consortium for exclusive 3G and 2G rights includes unnamed local and international partners.

Omani telecom posts Q3 net income of $83.4mn, down from $88.6mn in year-earlier period.

Six companies are chosen by Oman's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) to bid for second fixed-line licence

Government to short-list four or five firms for 70 percent holding in telecom operator.

Telecom firm's chief executive says rise in telephone users will help margins.

Agreement will see an 8000km fiber optics cable being laid on the Omani coast to enhance traffic

Omani telecom looking to sell to long-term investor, silent on interested companies.

Network upgrade agreement worth $80-100 million

New broadband service will offer business customers fastet broadband connection in the Gulf says Omantel

Nawras to invest $260mn this year, looking to sell 40% stake, CEO says.

Finance ministry reveals plans to sell stake in telecom to an unnamed long-term investor by September.

Sultanate plans to allow firms to resell Omantel and Nawras mobile phone services.

Etisalat's bid for stake in Omantel hinges on conditions set by Omani government

Pakistani operator accepted offer of Omani telco to buy 60% of its shares in a deal worth $185.6mn.

Omani operator almost doubles profit to record in Q3 after gov't cuts royalties telco pays on revenue.

Operator's profits set to soar this year as gov't cuts royalties demand to 7% of revenue, official says.

Gov't plans to sell stake in Omantel to long-term investor, agrees to cut royalties.

Operator to take majority stake in Pakistan-based telco.

Omani telco says it has no plans to compete for a stake in the third mobile operator being set up in Kuwait.

Oman Telecommunications Company has signed a MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) agreement with Bank Muscat.

Nearly two weeks after cyclone Gonu struck Oman, mobile operator Nawras has said it has now restored around 98% of its service to normal.

Oman's telecoms regulator plans to issue Class II licences for the provision of internet and audiotext services in the sultanate, it announced last week.

Du customers will be able to order their SIM cards from February 11, according to du CEO Osman Sultan

The issue of the commercialisation of voice over IP (VoIP) was a contentious one in the Middle East region throughout 2006 and this trend looks likely to intensify in 2007 as national regulators attempt to protect the interests of incumbent operators while at the same time promoting the introduction of disruptive technologies.

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With increased regulation and global competition, the Central Bank of Oman needed to speed up the country's interbank payment systems. ACN finds out more.