adx ords lse ords industry telecommunications headquarters doha qatar areas served kuwait qatar oman palestine iraq tunisia algeria indonesia maldives myanmar key people abdulla bin mohammed bin saud al thani chairman sheikh saud bin nasser al thani ceo revenue qar 33 207 209 000 2014 2 operating income qar 3 080 458 000 2014 2 net income qar 2 528 387 000 2014 2 total assets qar 97 999 347 000 2014 2 total equity qar 30 468 513 000 2014 2 number of employees 17 000 2014 2 website www.ooredoo.com www.ooredoo.com.qa qatar www.ooredoo.dz algeria www.indosatooredoo.com indonesia www.asiacell.com iraq www.ooredoo.com.kw kuwait www.ooredoo.mv maldives www.ooredoo.com.mm myanmar www.ooredoo.om oman www.ooredoo.tn tunisia ooredoo formerly qtel is an international telecommunications company headquartered in doha qatar . ooredoo provides mobile wireless wireline and content services with market share in domestic and international telecommunication markets and in business corporations and individuals and residential markets . it is one of the world s largest mobile telecommunications companies with over 114 million customers worldwide as of september 2015 . 3 partly state owned ooredoo has operations in the middle east europe and asia including algeria indonesia iraq kuwait myanmar maldives oman palestine qatar and tunisia . ooredoo s shares are listed on the qatar stock exchange and the abu dhabi securities exchange . 4 ooredoo has a market capitalisation of qar 301.2 billion as of september 2015 5 and was named best mobile operator of the year at the world communication awards 2013 . 6 contents 1 history 2 governance 3 operating companies 3.1 middle east 3.1.1 ooredoo qatar 3.1.2 ooredoo oman 3.1.3 ooredoo kuwait 3.1.4 asiacell iraq 3.2 north africa 3.2.1 ooredoo algeria 3.2.2 ooredoo tunisia 3.3 southeast asia 3.3.1 ooredoo maldives 3.3.2 indosat ooredoo 3.3.3 ooredoo myanmar 4 awards 5 social responsibility 5.1 empowering women 5.2 enabling youth 5.3 mobile health clinics 5.4 disaster relief 6 partnerships 6.1 facebook 6.2 rocket internet 6.3 telefonica 6.4 mit media lab 7 sponsorships 8 references 9 external links history edit alternate logo qtel group and all its operating companies worldwide were officially unified under ooredoo group in february 2013 as part of the company s strategy to combine its assets in order to form a global business within the telecommunications industry . 7 the name ooredoo is arabic for i want chosen to reflect the aspirations of ooredoo customers and the core belief that ooredoo can enrich people s lives and stimulate human growth in the communities where it operates . 8 ooredoo has experienced significant growth over the last six years transforming from a single market operator in qatar to an international communications company with a global customer base of more than 114 million customers worldwide as of september 2015 3 and consolidated revenues of qar 24.2 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2015 . 5 citing strong organic growth prudent investments and the growth and loyalty of its customers ooredoo has been the fastest growing telecommunications company in the world by revenue since 2006 and its enterprise value has more than tripled since 2005 . 7 governance edit board of directors the members of ooredoo s board of directors are as follows name position 9 sheik abdulla bin mohammed bin saud al thani chairman ali shareef al emadi deputy chairman mohammed bin issa al mohannadi member turki mohammed al khater member dr. nasser marafih member hareb masoud al darmaki member nasser rashid al humaidi member omer abdulaziz al hamed al marwani member abdulaziz al othman al fakhroo member hamad saeed al badi member ibrahim al mahmoud member chairman sheikh abdullah bin mohammed bin saud al thani sheikh abdullah is the chairman of the board of directors for ooredoo 9 and his main focus is the restructuring and regional expansion of ooredoo . 10 since the launch of ooredoo s expansion strategy in 2005 sheikh abdullah has steered the growth of ooredoo from being a single nation telecom operator to a group with a global presence in 17 countries spanning from north africa middle east to south east asia . 10 sheikh abdullah has played a key role in directing ooredoo s growth and its vision of enriching people s lives along the way by using social impact to drive financial performance . 11 by working with widely respected international organisations sheikh abdullah has supported ooredoo s work across a series of key areas including the empowerment of women and provision of mobile finance for the unbanked . in march 2014 sheikh abdullah was appointed to the world bank group advisory council on gender and development . 11 his appointment is a reflection of ooredoo s engagement in women s initiatives across its footprint and also h.e. s personal engagement with these issues . 11 sheikh abdullah is chief executive officer of qatar investment authority and a member of the supreme council for economic affairs and investment . additionally he was the chief of the royal court amiri diwan from 2000 to 2005 . 12 sheikh abdullah was previously a member of the planning council in qatar 12 and serves on the board of a number of leading telecommunications companies . 12 sheikh abdullah completed his graduate studies at the staff and command college in egypt before joining the united states army war college in carlisle pa where he graduated in 1998 . 10 chief executive officer dr. nasser mohammed marafih dr. nasser marafih has been the chief executive officer of the ooredoo group since 2006 . 13 in his role as ceo dr. nasser has spearheaded ooredoo s global growth in recent years to expand to 15 operations in middle east north africa and south east asia including ooredoo s acquisition of wataniya telecom ooredoo s strategic partnership with st telemedia in singapore as well as the company s purchase of a controlling stake in indosat of indonesia . 14 dr. nasser started his career at ooredoo in 1992 as expert advisor from the university of qatar and was involved in the introduction of the first gsm service in the middle east in february 1994 . 12 he joined ooredoo qatar in february 1994 as a director for strategic planning & development and led a number of strategic projects including the introduction of the internet service in qatar in 1996 and the privatization of ooredoo qatar from a government owned company to a publicly listed company in 1999 . 14 dr. marafih serves in as a board member in a number of other ooredoo group companies including ooredoo in myanmar and asiacell in iraq . 14 in addition dr. marafih serves as chairman of the board of the gsma mobile for development foundation and as a member of the board of gsma . 14 he is also the chairman of the south asia middle east north africa region s samena telecommunication council . 14 born in doha qatar dr. nasser holds a master of science and a ph.d in communication engineering from george washington university usa . 13 operating companies edit middle east edit ooredoo qatar edit qtel was formally established under law no. 13 of 1987 . 15 in 2006 qtel launched 3g services and announced a series of initiatives including an equity partnership with at & t in navlink international high speed mobile data gprs roaming services and the launch of ip internet protocol and telephony services . 16 in 2010 qtel launched its mobile money service and upgraded its 3g network . 17 in 2012 qtel continued its roll out of the nationwide qtel fibre network offering packages with download speeds of up to 300 mbit s and hdtv ooredoo tv . qtel also began the trial phase of its 4g lte mobile broadband service . 18 in february 2013 qtel officially rebranded as ooredoo . 7 in 2015 ooredoo qatar announced the launch of ooredoo supernet in one of the most significant network evolutions in qatar s history . the company introduced three band carrier aggregation building on its position of being the first and only company to combine 20 10 mhz bands on its 4g network . 19 ooredoo oman edit ooredoo oman was formerly known as nawras which was launched in oman in 2004 . 20 the company has been listed on the muscat securities market since 2010 . in november 2014 nawras officially rebranded as ooredoo oman . 20 ooredoo oman provides landline voice services to business and residential customers . it also provides a range of prepaid and post paid mobile phone plans and broadband internet service both home and mobile 3g . the home broadband and voice service is powered by wimax worldwide interoperability for microwave access technology . ooredoo oman was first to deploy 3g in oman and is the only operator to deploy wimax commercially in oman . 21 in october 2015 ooredoo oman was recognised as one of oman s top 20 performing companies for the fifth consecutive year . 22 ooredoo kuwait edit ooredoo kuwait s operations began in december 1999 as wataniya telecom when it launched wireless services as the second operator in the country . in march 2007 ooredoo acquired kuwait s wataniya telecom for us 3.8 billion . 23 in may 2014 wataniya telecom officially rebranded as ooredoo kuwait . 24 asiacell iraq edit asiacell the first mobile telecommunications company in iraq was established in sulaymaniyah in 1999 . in august 2007 asiacell bid and won a 15 year national license becoming the gsm telecom operator with the largest long term network coverage in iraq . to handle new business operations asiacell also simultaneously established new executive offices in baghdad basra and other major cities in iraq . 25 north africa edit ooredoo algeria edit ooredoo algeria s operations began in 2004 as nedjma positioned as the first multimedia operator in algeria . in november 2013 nedjma officially rebranded as ooredoo algeria . 26 ooredoo algeria introduced the first edge network in the country in 2004 and launched 3g services in algeria in december 2013 . 27 ooredoo tunisia edit ooredoo tunisia was founded in may 2002 and began commercial operations in december the same year . in april 2014 tunisiana officially rebranded as ooredoo tunisia . 28 southeast asia edit ooredoo maldives edit ooredoo maldives operations began in february 2005 as wataniya maldives after it was selected during a competitive bidding process with three other companies . in december 2013 wataniya telecom officially rebranded as ooredoo maldives . 29 indosat ooredoo edit indosat was founded in 1967 and began as a commercial international telecommunications service provider idd in september 1969 . 30 it is partially owned by the indonesian government . in november 2015 indosat officially rebranded as indosat ooredoo . 31 ooredoo myanmar edit main article ooredoo myanmar in june 2013 ooredoo was chosen as one of the two successful applicants among 90 bidders to be awarded a license to operate in myanmar considered one of the asia s last remaining greenfield telecom markets . formal licenses were granted in january 2014 and ooredoo pledged an investment of 15 billion to develop myanmar s telecoms sector with plans to cover 75 per cent of the population in five years . 32 awards edit recent awards 2013 capacity global carrier awards named ooredoo best middle eastern wholesale carrier for delivering successful services within a global marketplace . 33 ooredoo was named best mobile operator at world communication awards in recognition of the significant progress achieved in 2013 become the leading provider of 4g services in the gcc launching 4g mobile broadband networks in qatar oman and kuwait . 34 2014 ooredoo group s major investment in 4g and fiber technology received the technology investment of the year award at commsmea awards . 35 the success of the company s rebranding and broadband innovation won ooredoo the operator of the year honour at the tmt finance me awards . 36 2015 37 gsma s connected women leadership in industry award was awarded to ooredoo for 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