Syriatel

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Syriatel (Arabic: سيريتيل‎) is a privately owned telecommunications company founded in 2000. Today it controls 55% of the total market share.

Current Operator Numbers owned by Syriatel are 092, 093, 098, and 099, whereas current Operator Numbers owned by MTN Syria (the competitor of Syriatel) are 094, 095, 096, and 097.

[edit] Expanding Network

In order to expand network capacity by increasing numbers of customers, Syriatel changed mobile numbers as follows:

092 - (MobileNumber) → 093 - 2+(MobileNumber).
093 - (MobileNumber) → 093 - 3+(MobileNumber).
098 - (MobileNumber) → 098 - 8+(MobileNumber).
099 - (MobileNumber) → 099 - 9+(MobileNumber).
099 - (MobileNumber) → 099 - 8+(MobileNumber).

MobileNumber is 6 numbers, but in expanded network will be 7 numbers. These changes will take effect on April 10 2007, where as old numbers will still be working till May 31 2007.