Orange Jordan renews its exclusive agreement with MBC

Press release

Published August 7th, 2011 - 10:52 GMT

Al Bawaba

As part of its continuous efforts to improve its services and offer the latest in the telecom world, Orange Jordan, the sole integrated telecom operator in the Kingdom, renewed its successful exclusive agreement with MBC Group, offering its customers a collection of highly popular TV shows through the Mobile, as well as the upcoming Ramadan programs and series. The new agreement adds Khawater 7 program and Arabs Got Talent TV show to the bundle of content. Orange Jordan’s customers enjoy a section of the best series through Orange.jo provided by shahid online

Mohamed Benhamadi, Contents and Portal Director at Orange Jordan commented on this step saying: “We offer our customers a bundle of highly popular TV shows which they can watch anytime and anywhere on their handsets without missing any episode. We continuously develop e-content services, which Orange Jordan was the pioneer in launching, benefiting from our cutting-edge technologies that allow us to offer it with the best quality.”

For his part, Dr. Ammar Bakkar Group Director of New Media at MBC expressed the Group’s delight in renewing this agreement with Orange Jordan. “We, at MBC Group, strive to provide our viewers with the best services and access to our channels anytime and anywhere. Through this agreement we will give our viewers the chance to watch the highly popular TV shows with the HD quality,” he added.

Orange Jordan’s customers can watch Ramadan series one day prior to its screening for 20 piasters per each content requested. Subscriber can enjoy this service for free during the first 5 days. The same price applies to Arabs Got Talent TV show, where Orange Jordan offers the first 3 episodes for free. Furthermore, the customers will get the chance to watch the best performances in the show.

Orange Jordan provides Mobile TV service through the TV content platform launched recently with the HD technology providing the customers with various bundles that meet the different needs. The content varies between news and entertainment programs such as MBC1 and Al Arabiya channels.

It is noteworthy that Orange Jordan first offered the innovative content services to its customers end of February 2010 kicking it with signing an exclusive agreement with MBC Group, through which the former provides exclusive broadcasting of some highly popular series and programs aired on its channels to Orange mobile subscribers. Following that, the company provided its customers with the World Cup 2010 content exclusively on their handset and recently the Star Academy

Background Information

Orange

Orange Jordan is one of the 29 subsidiaries of Orange Group, a leading telecommunications operator in the world that ranks in the top ten among its competitors.. Orange Jordan is an international brand with a local spirit, applying globally acquired experience to initiate and maintain a digital transformation of the country that will lead to greater opportunities at shared socioeconomic prosperity for its people. It has an expanding customer base of more than five million, a network of around 1,800 dedicated employees, and more than 55 branches.

Company Profile

Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)

Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) is a Saudi-run company broadcasting a mix of free-to-air news and entertainment channels via satellite. It was launched on September 18, 1991.

MBC1 was launched in London in 1991, as the first pan-Arab free-to-air satellite station. And over the past 18 years MBC has added 8 channels, 2 radio stations, a magazine, portal websites and a production house to forge a global media group enriching peoples lives through information, interaction and entertainment.

With 165 million viewers, MBC is the largest media and broadcasting group in the Middle East.