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Blackberry is spy tool, says Dubai police chief
Dubai's police chief, Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, has said that fears of espionage and information sharing by Israel — as well as the United States and Britain — helped prompt the possible limits on the popular BlackBerry. Tamim told a conference on information technology that the proposed BlackBerry curbs are also "meant to control false rumors and defamation of public figures due to the absence of surveillance," according to a story posted Friday on the website of the UAE newspaper Al-Khaleej. Tamim did not elaborate on the spying accusations in the article.
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GCC telecom firms must cut costs, says report
GCC telecom operators, which are under pressure due to market saturation and increased competition, must implement more aggressive cost-cutting measures to achieve their full potential, Boston Consulting Group said in a new report. "Telecommunications is still one of the most inefficient industries, with as much as 30% of its cost basis eaten up by waste. This waste is difficult to see because it is embedded in telecom processes," Joerg Hildebrandt, partner and managing director at BCG Middle East said. Traditional cost-cutting approaches will not be able to capture the enormous potential savings, as the measures are not bold enough to meet current challenges because they exempt sacred cows and most importantly, they aim to cure the symptoms rather than address the root causes of waste, the report noted.
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TRA tells Du, Etisalat to keep alternative plans as RIM talks continue
The UAE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) has said it has not asked Etisalat and Du to suspend their alternative plans for Blackberry customers in the UAE, as talks between the UAE authorities and manufactures of Blackberry still remain inconclusive, Khaleej Times has reported. "Talks are going on between the UAE officials and the Canadian company RIM which manufactures the Blackberry phones. But no final solution has emerged yet. So the alternative plans announced by the telecom operators in the country in the wake of the impending ban on some of the services of Blackberry stands,'' a spokesperson for the TRA told the newspaper.
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Oman's Nawras IPO could raise $600m
Oman's Nawras could raise between $550m to $600m in its long-awaited initial public offering, Reuters has reported, citing a source close to the matter. The company is to offer 260 million shares as it divests 40% of its capital but no fresh equity is being issued to investors, the source said. Nawras has a capital base of 650 million shares. The IPO is expected to launch on September 15 and will be open for a month.
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Etisalat prepares Syria mobile license bid
Jamal Al-Jarwan , CEO of Etisalat has said the company plans to bid for a licence to become Syria's third mobile-phone operator, Arabic Al Khaleej has reported. The company is no longer bidding for licenses in Libya after the government cancelled a tender for fixed and mobile-phone licenses, he told the daily.
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