Info2cell.com, the leading Mobile Application Service Provider in the Middle East, has announced its participation at the GSM 3G Middle East and Gulf Conference, the region’s premier mobile industry event which opened today (Monday, September 11, 2006) at the Dubai International Convention Centre.
“As the flagship event for the regional mobile industry, the GSM 3G Conference & Exhibition serves the dual purpose of bringing into focus emerging trends in mobile communication and presents participants an opportunity to showcase innovative technologies and services. Info2cell.com will put on display its wide selection of mobile application services, and will look to leverage the show’s inherent networking potential to further expand our regional reach by teaming up with more mobile operators,” Bashar Dahabra, Founder and CEO of Info2cell.com, said.
“Mobile value added services enable operators to address subscribers’ desire for personalized entertainment and communication and have quickly emerged as the new growth sector, offering significant possibilities for increased average revenue per user (ARPU),” Dahabra said.
“For operators to fully tap into the vast potential of mobile value added services, they must orientate their business strategies towards the concept of diversification – both in terms of content and service offering. Info2cell.com has been leading the way in the region by forming strategic partnerships with several leading regional and international content providers such as Al Arabiya, BBC, CNN, Mubahser and AME Info and we have been consistently broadening our service offering portfolio to diversify our revenue streams,” Dahabra added.
Info2cell.com offers the most advanced mobile messaging technology to enable content providers to deliver messages and data to mobile phones, including SMS, MMS, WAP, IVR, video, ring-tones, picture messaging, animations and Java games. Info2cell.com’s WASP platform is interconnected to 27 mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa region, providing potential access to over 85 million mobile phone subscribers.
Mr. Dahabra was the chief architect and founder for the concept of a regional wireless portal service in the Middle East. Mr. Dahabra having observed and studied the convergence of the Internet and wireless technologies in the mid 90’s developed the info2cell concept in late 1998.
As the CEO, Mr. Dahabra was in charge of the overall Business Development, Systems Development and Financial strategies, dealing with the day to day operations of Info2cell. Mr. Dahabra sold Info2cell early in 2003 to Acotel having interconnected his company with 7 regional operators such as MTC-Kuwait, Fastlink-Jordan, MobiNil-Egypt, Batelco-Bahrain, Etisalat-UAE, Qtel-Qatar, Jawwal-Palestine and having over 250,000 registered mobile subscribers
Mr. Dahabra has 21 years of Systems Engineering, Management and Entrepreneurial experience, having worked for IBM for 10 years in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, and Jordan. Mr. Dahabra also worked as Director for Systems Development with FLAG for two years in NY, USA. Mr. Dahabra was the founder of a number of successful startups in Jordan, Bahrain and the region including Unitech - Jordan, Unisat - Jordan, First Telecommunication Group – Jordan, Magnet- Jordan and Gulf Soft - Bahrain.
Mr. Dahabra maybe contacted by email at [email protected] or phone +971 4 3912800 or fax +971 4 3912822
