Orange Jordan is a Jordanian public mobile telephone network operator, and is the operator of the mobile communications license granted to
Jordan Telecom.
The company was first registered on 21 September 1999, with an aim to build a mobile communications network to serve
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
, and has launched full public service across the Kingdom on 15 September 2000.
The mobile operator was called MobileCom until it was rebranded in 2007.
History
Upon
privatization
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on 23 January 2000,
Jordan Telecom Group was 60% owned by Jordan's government. The remaining 40% of the group's
shares
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were owned by JITCO Investment Group, a holding company consisting of
France Télécom
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''Orange'' has been the corporation' ...
(88%) and the
Arab Bank
Arab Bank is a Jordanian bank that is one of the largest financial institutions in the Middle East. It is headquartered today in Amman, Jordan, and operates as a universal bank that serves clients in more than 600 branches spanning five contine ...
(12%).
Mobile
On 30 March 2010, Orange Jordan launched its 3G network – The first 3G network in
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
. The
W-CDMA
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network was rolled out in three phases, according to Orange Jordan's Ex-CEO
Nayla Khawam. Under the first phase roll out included west
Amman
Amman ( , ; , ) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center. With a population of four million as of 2021, Amman is Jordan's primate city and is the largest city in the Levant ...
,
Irbid
Irbid (), known in ancient times as Arabella or Arbela (Άρβηλα in Ancient Greek language, Ancient Greek), is the capital and largest city of Irbid Governorate. It has the second-largest metropolitan population in Jordan after Amman, with a ...
and
Zarqa
Zarqa () is the capital of Zarqa Governorate in Jordan. Its name means "the blue (city)". It had a population of 635,160 inhabitants in 2015, and is the second most populous city in Jordan after Amman.
History
Although the area has been inhab ...
, while in April coverage was expanded to cover the entire capital and
Aqaba
Aqaba ( , ; , ) is the only coastal city in Jordan and the largest and most populous city on the Gulf of Aqaba. Situated in southernmost Jordan, Aqaba is the administrative center of the Aqaba Governorate. The city had a population of 148, ...
. By summer 2010 network coverage included most urban locations, delivering services to approximately 70% of populated areas, equivalent to around two million people.
Fixed broadband
In 2009, Orange Jordan offered higher ADSL speeds to its Jordanian customers reaching 4
Mbps
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and 8
Mbps
In telecommunications, data transfer rate is the average number of bits (bitrate), characters or symbols ( baudrate), or data blocks per unit time passing through a communication link in a data-transmission system. Common data rate units are mul ...
. In line with Orange Jordan's strategy to make 2011 the "Year of Broadband," the company unveiled in February 2011 its new
ADSL2+
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and
3G+ package, offering unprecedented broadband speeds of up to 24
Mbps
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and 21
Mbps
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respectively.
The company later expended its "home internet" offering with fiber and 5G.
See also
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Zain Jordan
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Umniah
() is a Jordanian mobile network operator. A subsidiary of Bahrain-based Batelco, it is the third and most recent GSM cellular phone company to enter the Jordanian telecom market. As of 2014 Umniah has a 30 percent share of the mobile telecommuni ...
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References
External links
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{{Orange S.A.
Telecommunications companies of Jordan
Orange S.A.