Vodafone adds 100,000 customers in first two months

Vodafone Qatar has revealed that since launching services in July it has signed up 100,000 customers, 50% of which have taken post-paid plans. The company’s GSM network covers 99% of the population and provides competition to Qatar Telecom (Qtel). Vodafone says it is confident of achieving a 40%-60% market share within ten years. At the end of June 2009 Qtel boasted 1.9 million subscribers.