Oman Telecommunication Company (

Omantel Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) is the first telecommunications company in Oman and is the primary provider of internet services in the country. The government of Oman owns a 51% share in Omantel. Omantel acquired 65% of WorldCall Pakist ...

) has a monopoly in the landline telephone and internet access markets. Its arm Omanmobile offers mobile services. The Omani government owns 70% of Omantel after 30% was listed for the public in 2005. In 2005 Qatar Telecommunication Company (Qtel) and partners were awarded the second license to offer mobile services in the country under the brand of Nawras, which is now rebranded as Ooredoo ( Ooredoo Oman). Oman now has 5 mobile networks offering internet. The networks providing 4G coverage are Oman mobile, Ooredoo, /Http://www.rennamobile.com/ Rennabr>RedBull Mobile
and Friendi. In 2019,

introduce its first 5G coverage in the country. In October 2007, the government overhauled Omantel board of directors and announced its plan to remerge the two arm of the company and to sell part of its share to a strategic partner. The government also slashed the royalty fee paid on revenue from 12% to 7%.

Telephone

Country Code Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes (geocodes) developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The term ...

: 00968 Market Summary (May 2020) Landlines : 585,018 Mobile cellular: 6,111,896 repaid (5,293,257) – Postpaid (818,639) Fixed Broadband : 487,733 International Gateway :

Ooredoo Ooredoo QSC ( ar, أريد; formerly ''Qtel'') is a Qatari multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wire line, and content services with market share in domestic and international telec ...

Telecom Oman (TeO)
Connect Arabia Domestic: open wire, microwave, radiotelephone communications, limited coaxial cable and a domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations. International: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) and 1 Arabsat.

Internet

Country code (

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): OM

Fixed Internet Service (May 2020)

Narrowband Internet Subscriptions: 2,021 Broadband Subscriptions : 487,733 ADSL services were launched in 2005 in

Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ...

through the provider

. As of 2020 there are 3 service providers for Broadband in Oman -

& Awasr

Mobile Broadband

Both

and

offer access to the internet through their 4G network coverage. In addition
Renna Mobile
an
RedBull Mobile
offer 4G internet using Omantel network, while Friendi mobile offers 4G network using Ooredoo network

Television

Broadcast stations: 13 (plus 25 low-power repeaters) (1999) Televisions: 1.6 million (1997)

Radio

Broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999) Radios: 1.4 million (1997) In April, 2008, Nokia Siemens was appointed to replace parts of the existing radio network.Oman Mobile strengthens partnership with Nokia Siemens Networks, al-abwab.com, April 28, 2008.

Notes

External links

Telecommunications Regulatory Authority

Omantel - Oman Telecommunications Company
phone company and ISP
Oman Mobile
mobile telecommunication company

mobile telecommunication company
Ministry of Information

Telecom Oman (TeO)
{{Telecommunications Telecommunications in Oman, Telecommunications by country, Oman