Dec, 05, 2004

Fastlink, The leading mobile operator in the Region, announced today the launch of the first service of its kind in the Kingdom; the MMS Studio, which allows users to personalize the MMS messages they send and exchange.

MMS Studio allows users to download images from the Fastlink web site and then send them to their mobile phones and add other personal touches to the MMS messages they send.

Customers could benefit from the Internet application, the MMS Studio, by visiting Fastlink website, thus opening the way for a wide range of benefits. The MMS Studio enables users to pick and choose the image they want to download on their mobile phones, add a personal touch to the image, or draw a picture and then send it to their own mobile or any other mobile or email of their choosing.

The website is rich with a wide array of color pictures and images offered by a number of providers such as Abu Mahjoob, Info2cell, MIT, ITP and Beecell, all of which can be saved on the Fastlink website.

Fastlink Marketing Director Bashar Arafeh said the new service gives an added value to customers who seek an innovative and distinguished service. Now more than ever before, he said, customers are always looking for new services, such as using the mobile phone to exchange data, access the email and others.

Arafeh said Fastlink continuously aspires to provide the most advanced high tech services to its customers, looking to meet their various needs and enable them to access information and carry on with their work wherever they are.

Fastlink has upgraded its website so as to provide customers with a one-stop-shop that facilitates a wide range of services, including the MMS Studio.

Fastlink Data Services Team leader, Khaled Nuseibeh, said the MMS Studio would be highly appreciated by users as it allows them to personalize their MMS messages. He said the mobile industry is evolving rapidly and transforming the mobile telephone into an integrated ICT tool and a multimedia multi purpose device through which customers can communicate as well as surf the Internet, access the email, send and receive voice, video and text messages in addition to taking and storing pictures.

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MTC Group
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) was founded in 1983 and today is one of the largest mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa, with more than 8.5 million customers in Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon and 13 countries in Africa. MTC is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange.

In September 2002, MTC entered into a Partner Network Agreement with Vodafone, the world's leading mobile community, in Kuwait creating MTC Vodafone Kuwait. In 2003 MTC continued its expansion with the acquisition of 96.4% of Fastlink in Jordan.

MTC's aspiration did not slow down and in 2003 MTC-Vodafone Bahrain was launched with the first 3G/EDGE nationwide network in the world. In 2004 the MTC Atheer service was launched in Southern Iraq, and today covers Baghdad as well.

2004 also witnessed the government of Lebanon handing over the management of LibanCell to the MTC Group. Most recently in March of 2005 MTC acquired Celtel International, a Duch communications network company with major interests in 13 Sub-Saharan African countries, in one of the biggest telecom deals in the Middle East and Africa worth $ 3.36 billion.

MTC Group now operates in 18 countries. With this deal MTC Group has completed its first phase of its 3x3x3 strategy which entails becoming a global operator with more than 20 million customers by 2011. MTC will continue to expand internationally through acquisitions, partnerships and green-field opportunities.

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