Telecommunications
in Oman
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Oman Telecommunication Company
(Omantel) has a monopoly in the landline telephone and internet access markets.
Its arm Omanmobile offers mobile services. The Omani government owns 70% of
Omantel after 30% was listed for the public in 2005. In 2005 Qatar
Telecommunication Company (Qtel) and partners were awarded the second license
to offer mobile services in the country under the brand of (Nawras).now Oman
have 6 mobile networks offering internet. The networks providing 3G coverage
are Oman mobile, Nawras,renna, friendi and mazoon mobile .
In October 2007 the government
overhauled Omantel board of directors and announced its plan to remerge the two
arm of the company and to sell part of its share to a strategic partner. The
government also slashed the royalty fee paid on revenue from 12% to 7%.
Telephone
Country
Code: 00968
Landlines
in use: 254,051(2010 - Feb)Prepaid (36,430) - Postpaid (210,816)- Public
Pay-phone (6,805)
Mobile
cellular: 4,131,922 (2010 - Feb) Prepaid (3,767,218) – Postpaid (364,704)
Domestic: open wire, microwave, radiotelephone
communications, limited coaxial cable and a domestic satellite system with 8
earth stations. International: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian
Ocean) and 1 Arabsat.
Internet
Internet
Service Providers (ISPs): 1 (2007) Country code (Top level domain): OM
Dial-up
access
Dial-up:
Postpaid (50,000) plus prepaid access cards containing a username and a
password which give a set number of surfing hours.
The
postpaid dialup service offered by Omantel costs 3 R.O. ($8) per month plus
0.180 R..O. ($0.47) for each hour of use.
Broadband
access
Broadband:
(29,000)
ADSL
services were launched in 2005 in Oman through the provider Omantel, the only
ISP in Oman.
Packages
available for home users:
- 512 kbit/s (0 GB bundled): costs 12 R.O. ($32) plus 1 R.O ($2.6) per gigabyte. No extra charge is calculated after downloading 27 GB which equals 39 R.O ($102) monthly.
- 1 Mbit/s (2 GB bundled): costs 19 R.O. ($50) plus 1 R.O. ($2.6) per extra gigabyte.
- 2 Mbit/s (5 GB bundled): costs 29 R.O. ($76) plus 1 R.O. ($2.6) per extra gigabyte.
- 4 Mbit/s (10 GB bundled): costs 39 R.O. ($102) plus 1 R.O. ($2.6) per extra gigabyte.
- 8 Mbit/s (unlimited access): costs 99 R.O. ($258).
EDGE and
3G
Both Omanmobile and Nawras offer
access to the internet through their EDGE networks. Nawras launched its 3G
network in selected areas in December 2007 with a download speed of 1 megabit.
Omanmobile is also offering high speed 3G coverage .
Television
Broadcast
stations: 13 (plus 25 low-power repeaters) (1999) Televisions: 1.6 million
(1997)
Radio
Broadcast
stations: AM 3, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999) Radios: 1.4 million (1997)
In April,
2008, Nokia Siemens was appointed to replace parts of the existing radio
network.
VSAT INTERNET FOR OMAN
Oman is within our satellite KU band service coverage via SES-4, AM44 and
ARABSAT. See footprints below.
See
above the Middle East Map and trace Oman to the satellite
coverage below. This means Oman people can avail of a two way
data, voice, video and internet communications to the rest of the globe via any
of these covering communication satellites.
What
will be required are an ODU (Out Door Unit) composed of satellite dish antenna
(VSAT), penetrating or non penetrating mount which can be aligned to the
serving satellite by qualified engineer in no time; and an IDU (In Door Unit)
composed of satellite modem or receiver/transmitter and a connection to
the end user LAN (Local Area Network).
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