Monthly Cash prizes and Bi-annual Grand Prizes for Lucky Roamers on MTC-Vodafone's (Bahrain) network

Kingdom of Bahrain, 8th February, 2007: MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) announced today a new year-long rewards programme for mobile phone users from outside Bahrain who choose the MTC-Vodafone network as their network of choice while roaming in the Kingdom. 

Based on a raffle ticket system, the rewards programme is unlimited:  the more you roam on the MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) network, the more raffle tickets you get, so the higher your chances are of winning throughout the year in each monthly draw for cash prizes of US$ 1,000 or the two high value grand prizes in July 2007 and January 2008.

One raffle ticket is allocated to those who meet any of the following four criteria: 10 minutes of international calls, 5 minutes of local calls, 10 SMS messages sent or 1MB of data used. 

"Each month, we will randomly pick one winner from the all the customers who had selected MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) as their network of choice, with the winner receiving a prize of US$ 1,000. The grand prizes are a BMW Z4 in July and a Porsche Boxster in January 2008," said Dr. Ahmed Al Shatti, MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain)'s Chief Operating Officer.

"At MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain), we recognise and value our customers, and this rewards programme is one way that we can show our appreciation for the loyalty they have shown us, and it also demonstrates our technology capabilities in extending our value services to all the customers of our roaming partners," Dr. Al Shatti continued .

The rewards programme kicked-off this month and will continue to the end of January next year, with prizes being awarded to one lucky winner at the end of each month.

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About MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain):
MTC-Vodafone comes as a result of a Network Partner Agreement between the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), a GCC regional company, borne in Kuwait and Vodafone, a global company based in the UK.  MTC-Vodafone, having been chosen by Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority to develop the 2nd GSM service, launched its services on December 28th, 2003.

Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC) was founded in 1983 and is perhaps one of the oldest mobile service providers in the world.  MTC has a reputation for pioneering new services in the Middle East and constantly seeks to forge partnerships with key global companies to bring the best products and services to the region.   MTC is considered to be a very successful, customer focused and ambitious company and has aspirations that fit with the Vodafone strategy for global customer services.

Issued on behalf of MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain) by Hill & Knowlton. For press information contact:
Sami Amin from Hill and Knowlton
Tel: +973 17 533 532
Fax: +973 17 533 370
e-mail: sami@hillandknowlton.com.bh

Hala Suleiman
MTC-Vodafone(Bahrain)
Tel: +973 3603 1074
Fax: +973 3603 1994
e-mail: marcom@mtc.com.bh

© Press Release 2007