Orascom Telecom Holding

Naguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian businessman and politician. He was executive chairman of the telecommunications companies Wind Telecom and Orascom Telecom Holding before turning to politics in May 2011. OTH launched the first mobile operator in Egypt, Mobinil in 1998. OTH has 20,000 employees... and manages 11 GSM operators around the globe. In the beginning, OTH’s strategy was to target underpenetrated high population markets. However, soon after it started to pursue more developed markets with the launch of Wind Mobile by its Globalive subsidiary in Canada in December 2009. Moreover, OTH launched the first mobile operator in North Korea in 2008, “Koryolink”. Sawiris joined Orascom in 1979. The Orascom Group is the country’s largest private sector employer and has the largest market capitalization on the Cairo & Alexandria Stock Exchange. Sawiris established and built the railway, information technology, and telecommunications sectors of Orascom.
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Cairo , is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in the year 969 A.D. making it 1,042 years old. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of... Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD.; but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza. Egyptians today often refer to Cairo as Maṣr , the Arabic pronunciation of the name for Egypt itself, emphasizing the city's continued role in Egyptian influence.
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Beeline is the trademark of Russia's third-largest wireless and second-largest telecom operator, OJSC VimpelCom . Its headquarters is located in Moscow. Since 2009, OJSC VimpelCom has been a subsidiary of VimpelCom Ltd. . VimpelCom's main competitors in Russia are Mobile TeleSystems and MegaFon. Beeline's brand was designed in 2005 by Wolff Olins as a re-brand for their old corporate identity, assisted by Marina Willerr. Until the re-brand of... MTS it was considered the most valuable brand in Russia. VimpelCom was founded in 1992 and initially operated AMPS/D-AMPS network in Moscow area. In 1996 it became the first Russian company listed on the New York Stock Exchange . In 1997 the company began GSM network roll-out. In 2001 it started GSM networks throughout Russia's regions, having gradually increased its regional presence to the majority of Russia's territory. In 2004, VimpelCom, in its first move outside Russia's territory, acquired Kazakhstani cellular operator KaR-Tel .
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