Ooredoo

Ooredoo Q.P.S.C.
FormerlyQtel Group (1987–2013)
Company typePublic
QEORDS
ADXORDS
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded1987; 37 years ago (1987)
Headquarters
Doha
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Areas served
North Africa, Middle East, Europe and Asia
Key people
Sh. Faisal Bin Thani Al Thani (chairman)
Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo (CEO)
RevenueUS$6.23bn (2022)[1]
QAR 3,080,458,000 (2014)[1]
QAR 2,528,387,000 (2014)[1]
Total assetsQAR 97,999,347,000 (2014)[1]
Total equityQAR 30,468,513,000 (2014)[1]
Number of employees
15,167 (2021)[2]
Subsidiariessee Subsidiaries
Websitewww.ooredoo.com

Ooredoo QSC[a][4] (Arabic: أريد; formerly Qtel) is a Qatari multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wire line, and content services with market share in domestic and international telecommunication markets, and in business (corporations and individuals) and residential markets.

Ooredoo was the first operator globally to launch commercial 5G services in Qatar and is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies, with over 121 million customers worldwide as of 2021.[2]

Ooredoo operates in ten countries and territories across the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia: Algeria, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Myanmar, Maldives, Oman, Palestine, Qatar and Tunisia.

Ooredoo's shares are listed on the Qatar Stock Exchange and the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Ooredoo Group FY 2022: Net Profit Increase of 27%, Best Result Since 2". 14 February 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Annual Report 2021" (PDF). Ooredoo. 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  3. ^ Maakaron, Charbel; Montouché, Arnaud (1 February 2016). "Establishing a business in Qatar". Thomson Reuters Practical Law. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. ^ "Legal name officially changes to Ooredoo QSC". Gulf-Times. 26 June 2013.


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