Operator Companies in Africa, Canada, Asia and The Middle East
From 200,000 subscribers in 1998 to more than 101 million subscribers, through its parent company “Wind Telecom”, Orascom Telecom (OTH) established itself as a global brand. Operating in eleven emerging markets, the company has a population under license of approximately 517 million with an average mobile telephony penetration of approximately 48% as of December, 2010. Orascom Telecom operates GSM networks in Algeria ("OTA"), Pakistan ("Mobilink"), Egypt ("Mobinil"), Bangladesh ("banglalink"), Burundi (Leo Burundi), DR Congo (SAIT) owned via Telecel International, Namibia (Leo Namibia), Central African Republic (Telecel CAR), North Korea (“koryolink”) and Canada (“Wind Mobile”) through its indirect equity shareholding in Globalive Wireless and its indirect equity ownership in Telecel Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe). In 2009, the company was also awarded the management contract of one of the two Lebanese mobile telecommunications operators ("Alfa") from the government of the Republic of Lebanon.
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