Zain is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the regionAos first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our expansion strategy in 2003, we have expanded rapidly. Today, we are a leading mobile and data services operator with a commercial footprint in 8 Middle Eastern and North African countries with a workforce of over 6,000 providing a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 44.4 million active individual and business customers as of June 30, 2013.