Virgin Mobile service comes to Qatar
In: Qatar | Qtel and Vodafone
14 May 2010
Virgin Mobile Qatar
Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson yesterday announced a new brand partnership with Qtel to bring the Virgin mobile service to Qatar.
The brand is aimed at the youth market in the country, promising a simple, open and fun service to its customers.
Branson announced the launch at the Museum of Islamic Art yesterday, where he arrived at the head of a formation of jet-skis, producing a plume of red and white smoke across the Corniche.
Expressing his excitement at the new venture, Sir Branson said: “Virgin Mobile is the fastest-growing and most successful business in Virgin’s history, with more than 15mn customers around the world.”
“Virgin Mobile Qatar is an entirely new type of mobile experience, which everybody can start enjoying from today – I am proud to have partnered with Qtel to make Virgin Mobile Qatar our first mobile launch in the Middle East, and I would like to invite the people of Qatar to come on in and enjoy the fun. We’re open!” he added.
Virgin offers a prepaid mobile service combining Qtel’s mobile network with the Virgin Group brand.
The service offers an all day tariff and customers pay less the more they talk, with local calls costing QR0.55 per minute for the first five minutes of every day and QR0.30 after, and international rates priced at QR1.30 and QR0.65.
Other services include 180 days of airtime validity, and the cheapest mobile internet rate in Qatar at QR1 per megabyte.
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