SUMMARY:
This report analyzes the cellular rates of operators in 16 Arab countries. The countries were classified according to their relative pricing status (High cost, Fair, Low cost), depending on whether the regional status of a country’s GDP per capita matches that of the regional status of the average cellular rates. The report also analyzes the operators’ prepaid and postpaid connection fees, and prepaid cards’ validity periods. The Arab Advisors Group made comparisons between operators based on the three usage criteria of users; light (250-300 local minutes and 300MB per month), medium (500 local minutes and 500MB monthly) and large (1000 local minutes and 1GB on a monthly basis).
