A Scorecard of Key Performance Indicators of Cellular Operators in the Arab World

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1 A Scorecard of Key Performance Indicators of Cellular Operators in the Arab World Arab Advisors Group Strategic Research Service December 2014 Analyst: Mai Al-Zeir This report has been delivered to Client as part of the subscription to the Arab Advisors Group Strategic Research Service to be used exclusively by its employees

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3 Table of Contents Section I : Executive Summary... 1 Section II : Overview... 2 Section III : General Comparisons... 4 Section IV : Cellular service operators... 7 Section V : Operators Financial Performance Section VI : Availability and Deployment of 3G/3.5G and LTE services... 41

4 List of Exhibits Exhibit 1: Cellular, Internet and Integrated Communication Providers (ICPs) by September Exhibit 2: Population of examined countries (2013, Q1 2014)... 4 Exhibit 3: Regional Estimated Nominal GDP per capita comparison (2013) 6 Exhibit 4: Cellular market status (September 2014)... 8 Exhibit 5: Total number of operators (August 2012 vs. September 2014)... 9 Exhibit 6: List of cellular operators understudy (September 2014) Exhibit 7: Ranking of cellular operators by lines (2013) Exhibit 8: Cellular lines per operator (March 2014) Exhibit 9: Ranking of cellular operators by lines (March 2014) Exhibit 10: Ranking of cellular operators by lines (2013) Exhibit 11: Cellular operators market shares (Q vs. 2013) Exhibit 12: Prepaid/postpaid subscriber mix per cellular operator (Q vs. 2013) Exhibit 13: Prepaid/postpaid lines ratio (Q vs. 2013) Exhibit 14: Ranking of countries by cellular lines (2013) Exhibit 15: Ranking of countries by cellular lines (Q1 2014) Exhibit 16: Cellular penetration rates (Q vs. 2013) Exhibit 17: Ranking of countries by cellular penetration (Q1 2014, 2013). 26 Exhibit 18: Cellular penetration/fixed line penetration ratio (2013) Exhibit 19: Cellular revenues per operator (Q vs. 2013) Exhibit 20: Percent of cellular revenues vs. percent of cellular lines (Q1 2014) Exhibit 21: Percent of cellular revenues vs. percent of cellular lines (2013) Exhibit 22: Monthly cellular ARPU (2013) Exhibit 23: Monthly cellular ARPU (Q1 2014) Exhibit 24: EBITDA margin comparison per operator (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by EBITDA Exhibit 25: EBITDA margin comparison per operator (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by EBITDA margin Exhibit 26: EBITDA margin comparison per group (consolidated results) (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by EBITDA Exhibit 27: EBITDA margin comparison per group (consolidated results) (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by EBITDA margin Exhibit 28: Net profit comparison per operator (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by net profit... 38

5 Exhibit 29: Net profit comparison per operator (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by net profit margin Exhibit 30: Net profit comparison per group (consolidated results) (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by net profit Exhibit 31: Net profit comparison per group (consolidated results) (2013, Q1 2014) sorted by net profit margin Exhibit 32: Operators and 3G/3.5G and LTE services availability in the Arab World (September 2014)... 42

6 This report has been delivered to clients as part of the subscription to the Arab Advisors Group Strategic Research Service to be used exclusively by its employees