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Etisalat, Du net Dh19bn from GSM
Two-thirds of revenues from pre-paid GSM cardsEtisalat and Du , the UAE's two telecommunications service providers, netted around Dh20 billion from mobile phone subscription in 2011 and nearly two thirds of the revenue came from pre-paid GSM SIM cards.
By the end of April, the two firms had 12.49 million mobile phone users, including around 763,000 subscribers who entered the market in the first four months of 2012, according to figures by the Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA).
Revenue netted by Etisalat and Du from pre-paid users totalled around Dh12.33 billion in 2011 while monthly bill subscribers fetched Dh6.78 billion, showed the figures published in the semi official daily Alittihad.
At the end of April 2012, Etisalat and Du also had 1.89 million fixed line telephone subscribers and 911,466 internet users.
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