Internet of Things IoT Services in the Arab World Arab Advisors Group Strategic Research Service December 2015 Analyst: Noor Al Asmar 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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Table of Contents Section I: Introduction... 1 Section II: Overview... 3 Section III: IoT services and applications in the Arab World for individual and business users offered by cellular operators... 7 Bahrain... 7 Egypt... 8 Jordan... 14 Kuwait... 17 Lebanon... 19 Morocco... 20 Palestine... 21 Qatar... 22 Saudi Arabia... 23 Syria... 25 Tunisia... 26 UAE... 27 Section IV: Adoption of IoT services... 30
List of Exhibits Exhibit 1: Number of analyzed IoT services provided by country... 3 Exhibit 2: The availability of main IoT services provided by the operators... 5 Exhibit 3: Number of IoT services offered by cellular operators by category... 6 Exhibit 4: Batelco s B-fit rates and packages... 7 Exhibit 5: Tracking devices and fees for Etisalat s My Car Tracking Service... 9 Exhibit 6: Etisalat s My Car Tracking Service sensor prices... 9 Exhibit 7: Mobinil s Metabe3 services... 10 Exhibit 8: Vodafone s Arabeety plans for individual users... 11 Exhibit 9: Vodafone s Arabeety plans for business users... 12 Exhibit 10: Sensor prices for Arabeety service... 13 Exhibit 11: Prices of extra sensors for Arabeety service... 13 Exhibit 12: Zain s Zain Track plans and packages... 14 Exhibit 13: Zain Track installation fees... 14 Exhibit 14: Zain s Zain Camera packages... 15 Exhibit 15: Features available on Zain Camera application... 15 Exhibit 16: Packages for Umniah s Vehicle Tracking... 16 Exhibit 17: Devices installation fees for UControl... 16 Exhibit 18: SIM card fees for Fleet Management Solution by Zain Kuwait... 17 Exhibit 19: SIM card fees for PRO Track by Ooredoo... 18 Exhibit 20: Malak e-watch rates and packages... 19 Exhibit 21: STC Fleet Management service packages... 23 Exhibit 22: STC s Fleet Management service fees... 24 Exhibit 23: Tracking Corp service fees... 26 Exhibit 24: Postpaid NFC SIM fees... 27 Exhibit 25: Pay As You Go NFC SIM fees... 27 Exhibit 26: Mobile NFC subscription plan... 28 Exhibit 27: Etisalat s NFC subscription requirements... 28 Exhibit 28: Etisalat s Fleet Management Solution features... 29
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