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Corporate information

Emirates Telecommunications Corporation, branded trade name Etisalat (Arabic: اتصالات‎ Ittiṣālāt, literally, Communications) is a UAE based telecommunications services provider, currently operating in 17 countries across Asia, the Middle East and Africa. As of February 2012, Etisalat is the 15th largest Mobile network operator in the world, with a total customer base of more than 167 million.[1] Etisalat was named the most powerful company in the UAE by Forbes Middle East in 2012 [2]

In February 2012, Etisalat reported net revenue of USD $8.77 billion (AED 32.2 billion) and net profits of US$1.58bn (AED 5.8 billion billion ).[3] There are five operators by the TRA in the UAE today including Etisalat, Emirates Integrated Telecom (DU), Nedaa, Yahsat and Media Zone Intaj .

Etisalat is one of the Internet hubs in the Middle East (AS8966), providing connectivity to other telecommunications operators in the region. It is also the largest carrier of international voice traffic in the Middle East and Africa and the 12th largest voice carrier in the world.[4] As of October 2008, Etisalat has 510 roaming agreements covering 186 countries and enabling BlackBerry, 3G, GPRS and voice roaming.[5] Etisalat operates Points of Presence (PoP) in New York, London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris and Singapore. As of December 2011 Etisalat announced the commercial launch of Etisalat 4G "Long Term Evolution" (LTE) Network [6].

Etisalat has been a pioneer in the introduction of Internet services in the region and 3G services in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and most recently Afghanistan.

Etisalat is also one of the founders of satellite telecommunications company, Thuraya, and has invested widely in submarine and terrestrial fiber cable connectivity bringing reliable, high-speed broadband to the Gulf and Africa.

Etisalat’s innovative services have received numerous regional and international accolades, including three 2012 Global Mobile Awards in the ‘Best Mobile Health Innovation’, ‘mWomen Best Mobile Product’ and ‘Best Mobile Money Innovation’ .

Vandalism

This article has been completely replaced with a new one, as I'm noticing on Saturday, April 21, 2007. Looks like someone at Etisalat has completely replaced the entry with a press release from themselves? Antivert 01:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Hmm, it appears much of the article was removed due to violation of certain policies, and much of this Etisalat-aggrandizing information was added later. Time to clean up the article I guess, and provide new links with sources for the censorship-related stuff. Antivert 01:20, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Sigh! Corporate vandalism is so fun. Antivert 01:28, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, I have to edit here one more time just to show how crass this is:

• http://hrw.org/advocacy/internet/mena/uae.htm (Human Rights Watch on Etisalat and Free Expression)

was changed to:

• http://www.weyak.ae (Etisalat’s entertainment portal)

There were numerous problems with NOR in the Censorship section before. Much of it is verifiably true if you live in the UAE, but lacked credible sources. I'm not restoring the section because it should be rewritten. Antivert 02:04, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

There also used to be a link to the website of the service they use to determine what sites they block. Its an American company that sells a list of categorized sites. Does anyone have that link or remember the name ?

Unfortunately, the whole page does still seem to read more like an advertisement for Etisalat than an objective article. Huw Thomas ITSI Middle East - 28 Aug 08 202.174.156.68 (talk) 06:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

EIM

(GMT+4)

Removed this: Upon the new release of the latest ISP for the United Arab Emirates will allow the complete unblocking of every internet site on the planet.

There's been no announcement as to whether DU, the 'new' ISP, will operate a proxy-free system. Conversely, it's been reported that those areas that currently don't operate through the Etisalat proxy (freezones, EMAAR residential areas, etc) will, in fact, have it imposed before the year-end.

Verification needed

There might be a third ISP but will be partially owned by etisalat.The facts are unknown if they will restrict the internet or not OR the ISP will come in service. If it does, The ISP will be up and running By December 2006.

Interesting and important article. I wonder what is meant by the "weasle word" reference in the end of the article. It seems like that would be an easy one to edit and get that cleaned up. VX 20:16, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Controversial Company

Removed many sections of the entry due to failure to comply with Wikipedia rules. If you're unsure of the rules, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines . We all know that Etisalat is doing some pretty devious things, but let's please adhere to Wikipedia's policies. Antivert

There are also several problems with NPOV in this article. Please be encylopaedic.

Cable TV?

"citation needed" added for the statement that Etisalat holds a monopoly in the cable TV field. This needs to be clarified, as there are multiple cable TV operators in the UAE, including Dubai.

Old Information

The article contains very old information and it is not up to date. Please help updating the article

Reliable? Yeah Right!

Look, i've been to UAE, and reliable does not come to mind to most customers of Etisalat. This is the first time i have heard anybody saying this about Etisalat. Nabeel_co 04:14, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Blocked sites

Why was the section on blocked sites removed?--SohanDsouza 20:48, 15 September 2007 (UTC)

It was removed without comment, and so was the see also section, mentioning their non-blocking competition, du (telco). I am about to restore the content removed without explanation. Thanks for the catch, SohanDsouza. —Fudoreaper 21:11, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

This section needs to attribute the new role of TRA that is actually managing the proxy right now. TRA is also mandating a proxy for du, although they face stiff resistance and obstacles from du officials. They've claimed so far all sorts of technical obstacles :-) --V3rbum (talk) 07:41, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

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Resource

[1] is a good resource for documenting censorship by Etisalat. Superm401 - Talk 21:00, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Criticism?

With regard to these points:

1. With a 1Mbit connection the download speed can be as high as 120Kbytes and the upload speed will be around 13Kbytes, If you pay for a 2Mbits connection, the speed can be as high as approx. 250KBytes/s and upload speed as high as 35kB/s. 4Mbits connection gives you double the download transfer rate at approx. 430KBytes/s, but the upload speed will not go higher than 55kB/s.
2. Connection to most servers around the world won't give you the 430kB/s (4Mb) download speed.

This sounds fairly comparable for ADSL connections around the world. Don't think this is specificly only to do with Etisalat. I nominate for removal - 129.11.208.16 (talk) 13:27, 23 May 2008 (UTC)

Prayer in this article?

"This tradition is not from the time of the Prophet -peace be upon him- or his Sahabah."

is that appropriate for a wikipedia article? 169.252.4.21 (talk) 21:15, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

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Blackberry WIFI controversy

It remains unclear why blackberry services do not work over WIFI connections in the UAE. Their competitor DU permits blackberry devices to coonect to RIM servers over WIFI connections on DU broadband networks. Etisalat does not comment on the reasons of blocking Blackberry Messenger and Email on Etisalat Broadband WIFI connections. They situation is camouflaged by Etisalat that permits hotspot browsing on WIFI which let's users think that their blackberry is working over WIFI but that is not the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.49.98.125 (talk) 23:47, 6 August 2011 (UTC)

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Message Receiving Problem on U.Fone GSM In Saudi Arabia

I need some information about my subject problem. My u.fone sim was working properly before 1 day but now i am not receiving sms from pakistan on my u,fone please resolve my problem i am in Jeddah since 9 months. My number is 00923343694412. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.54.38.43 (talk) 05:27, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

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Requested move 12 August 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. Moved as an uncontested request with minimal participation. If there is any objection within a reasonable time frame, please ask me to reopen the discussion; if I am not available, please ask at the technical requests page. (closed by non-admin page mover) Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 20:58, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

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Etisalat by e& → e& – It seems like most sources refer to the company as e&, and that's what they seem to call themselves as well. Sources: Hollywood Reporter, Reuters, Fast Company, Bloomberg, etc.

Alternatively, I would also support a move to Etisalat, if that's preferable formatting, because I think there is evidence that many sources use that as well (the companies former name): Light Reading, Developing Telecomes (maybe not independent), Tech in Africa, WSJ (2015 reference), NYT (2012), Computer Weekly, etc.

Regardless of the option, the current title does not seem widely used or like the primary search keyword that would be used. It should be noted that we already use the "e&" formatting in other articles, see E& Egypt. Bestagon ⬡ 02:30, 12 August 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:12, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Note: WikiProject Dubai, WikiProject United Arab Emirates, WikiProject Telecommunications, WikiProject Egypt, WikiProject Abu Dhabi, and WikiProject Companies have been notified of this discussion. Safari Scribe^{Edits! Talk!} 05:13, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

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Requested move 5 December 2024

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The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Bensci54 (talk) 17:50, 12 December 2024 (UTC)

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E& → Etisalat – Per WP:COMMONNAME, Etisalat is the most commonly used name of this company with titles of new articles relating to the company within the country it functions in (the UAE) seen in this article title, this, and this, to give a few examples. They changed their name from Etisalat to e& in 2022 but Etisalat remainds the most commonly used name, like how Twitter remains so instead of being renamed to X. The nominator of the previous move discussion also mentioned supporting a move to Etisalat (being the most commonly used name) in their nomination. The articles linked by nominator supporting the move to e& all refer to the company as formerly being named Etisalat, similar to how majority of News organisations say "X (formerly Twitter)" again supporting Wikipedia's common name policy. jolielover♥talk 15:56, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

• Support per MOS:TMRULES. Theparties (talk) 23:26, 5 December 2024 (UTC)

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