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Mobily (Arabic: موبايلي) is the trade name of Saudi Arabia's second Telecommunications company, Etihad-Etisalat consortium (Arabic: اتحاد اتصالات ). The company, as the winning bidder for Saudi Arabia's second GSM licence, provides mobile telecom services nationwide, breaking Saudi Telecom's monopoly in the wireless business. They company launched 3.5G services on the 27th of June 2006 .
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The consortium is led by UAE firm Etisalat who own 35%, with 45% held by 6 strategic local partners. The remaining 20% was put up for public subscription in an IPO that was massively oversubscribed.
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GSM Association has described Mobily as the fastest growing mobile operator in the Middle East & North Africa. "GSM Association Newsletter" September 2005 edition. In 2006, Mobily subscribers reached more than 4,800,000 subscribers. As of 20th January 2007, mobily got 6 million subcribers and 0.5 million 3G users. Also there is a big demand in mobily Blackberry service, companies like SABB, Samba Financial Group, Saudi Pepsi Cola Co., etc are now using mobily Blackberry.
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