Vodafone Airtouch PLC

When is Vodafone going to open its sim card for public use? I mean when can we buy the Mobile numbers from Vodafone? because i am having some serious problem with Qtel's Hala Sim. International SMSs are taking so much time to deliever. Does anyone has the same problem with the International SMSs??

Please comment!

William Fagan, ictQATAR Executive Director of the Regulatory Authority, conducted an interview with Doha's Al-Arab newspaper discussing a wide range of telecommunications regulatory issues that are making headlines as competition is set to enter the market.

The interview, which was published in the Arabic language newspaper on April 26, 2009 , addressed amendments to Vodafone-Qatar Foundation Consortium's license, the commercial launch of Vodafone's service, interconnection rates, numbering, mobile towers and licensing fees.

Did you guyz hear about vodafone?

Vodafone launch in qatar a few months ago.. did anyone can share the features of this new tele-communication company? (in qatar)

It is better than QTEL? or cheaper than QTEL?

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Subscribers to the Vodafone IPO will have the opportunity to choose the service provider’s mobile number free of charge and avail of two call packages during a promotion period.

Vodafone’s IPO is limited to Qataris and Qatari organisations. All Vodafone numbers start with ‘7’.
Customers will have about 1mn mobile phone numbers to choose from, Vodafone Qatar CEO Grahame Maher said.
However, shareholders who wish to select their own numbers have to pay a reservation fee starting from QR500. All numbers come at a fixed fee and a valid credit card is required to avail of the facility.
Each subscriber (individual or company) can reserve up to three numbers. The ‘free number promotion’ for IPO subscribers ends on May 31.

Vodafone, Qtel talks ‘at snail’s pace’
Negotiations for sharing transmission towers with Qtel have not made any significant progress, Vodafone’s chief executive officer Grahame Maher has said.
Answering a wide range of questions on the causes for the delay in launching its services in Qatar, Maher in an exclusive interview to the local Arabic daily Arrayah said it was a travesty of truth to say that the Qtel “offered us many facilities and that we have not made use of them”.

Have you read about the "1st 1000" customers of Vodafone complaining about the services of Vodafone...

See their comments here..
http://www.qatarvoda...

It seems that Vodafone would really have a difficult time launching its services, even on September. Even major places seems to not have coverage at all.