Orascom

Orascom is an Egyptian company that offers mobile telephone services in many countries.

Affiliates

Orascom operates these companies:

• Mobinil Archived 2010-04-15 at the Wayback Machine in Egypt
• Djezzy Archived 2007-01-09 at the Wayback Machine in Algeria
• Iraqna Archived 2007-01-20 at the Wayback Machine in Iraq
• Mobilink Archived 2007-01-03 at the Wayback Machine in Pakistan
• Banglalink in Bangladesh
• Telecel Zimbabwe Archived 2006-12-30 at the Wayback Machine in Zimbabwe

History

In 1997, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) was established as a separate entity to consolidate the telecommunications and technology interests of the Orascom group of companies established in 1976. Founded in 1998 as part of the Orascom company, it became the largest cellular operator in the Middle East in only five years.

In 2010, Russian Vimpelcom acquired Orascom Telecom as well as Wind Telecomunicazioni from Weather Investments of the Egyptian entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris and merged the two companies to form Global Telecom Holding based in Cairo. Excluded from this transaction were the activities in North Korea (Koryolink) and Egypt, which were transferred to Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding, which remained majority-owned by Naguib Sawiris. The Italian activities of Wind Telecomunicazioni report directly to the parent company Vimpelcom and are not part of Global Telecom Holding.

Orascom Telecom Holding has been renamed to Global Telecom Holding in 2013. On 1 July 2019 Gerbrand Nijman (since June 2015 GTH's group CFO) has succeeded Vincenzo Nesci (retired) as GTH's CEO.

Orascom Media

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  Night view of the Nile City Towers. Orascom Construction headquarters is at the south tower (on the right). In between the two towers lies the Fairmont Hotels and Resorts.

Other websites

• Orascom Archived 2018-07-19 at the Wayback Machine