97%
Investments in new technology increased capacity substantially and brought the Nawras 3G+ network within reach of more than 60 per cent of the population – expected to rise to 97 per cent once the turbocharging programme has ended.
68%
Nawras secured a 68 per cent share of the growing market for prepaid BlackBerry usage.
In partnership with Tata Communications, we launched a range of international services, including the Sultanate’s first Global Virtual Private Network (GVPN), to offer multinational companies secure international digital communications to more than 200 of the world’s main business hubs and data centres.
Nawras was the first telecoms company in Oman to showcase the latest 4G LTE ahead of its launch.
2.2m
The total number of Nawras customers exceeded 2 million, following growth for four consecutive quarters.
+63%
Nawras’ fixed service customer base rose by 63 per cent in 2012.
An exclusive marketing agreement with WhatsApp, the world’s leading cross-platform mobile messaging service, gives Nawras an opportunity to target more than one million WhatsApp customers in Oman with new services.
Nawras expanded its national backbone infrastructure to more than 5000 kilometres of fibre and microwave backbone, and will continue to invest in and expand this core infrastructure.