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Ooredoo

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Qatari multinational telecommunications company

Ooredoo Q.P.S.C., (Arabic: أريد; formerly Qtel), is a Qatari state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wireline, and content services with market share in domestic and international telecommunication markets and in business (corporations and individuals) and residential markets. Ooredoo was the first operator globally to launch commercial 5G services in Qatar and is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications companies, with over 121 million customers worldwide as of 2021.2 Its shares trade on London Stock Exchange under the symbol ORDS.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 20, 2026.

Overview

1987Founded1

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  • TickerORDS on London Stock Exchange1
  • Industrymobile phone industry, telecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersDoha1
  • Websitewww.ooredoosubscription.online
  • Legal formpublic company1

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Ooredoo Q.P.S.C., (Arabic: أريد; formerly Qtel), is a Qatari state-owned multinational telecommunications company headquartered in Doha. Ooredoo provides mobile, wireless, wireline, and content services with market share in domestic and international telecommunication markets and in business (corporations and individuals) and residential markets.2

Corporate structure

Ooredoo sits at the top of its group. 11 entities, 9 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0); major holders from Schedules 13D and 13G. Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Ooredoo reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

The company was founded by the government of Qatar in Doha in 1987, initially as the 100% state-owned "Qatar Public Telecommunications Corporation". In 1998 it was transformed into "Qatar Telecom" ("Qtel"), and partially opened to private investment, but in a way that guaranteed continued majority control for the government. It has since become the largest communications operator in Qatar, offering new technologies to the country, including mobile, broadband, digital, and fiber internet services. The publicly traded company has ownership from the royal family, with H.E. Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed Bin Saud Al Thani as the company's chairman and Sheikh Saud bin Nasser Al Thani as Ooredoo Group CEO. Waleed Al-Sayed is Ooredoo Group's deputy CEO and Ooredoo Qatar's CEO.

Qtel Group and all its operating companies worldwide were officially unified under Ooredoo Group in February 2013, as part of the company's strategy to combine its assets to form a global business within the telecommunications industry. The name Ooredoo is Arabic for "I Want", chosen "to reflect the aspirations of Ooredoo customers and the core belief that Ooredoo can enrich people's lives and stimulate human growth in the communities where it operates".

Ooredoo transformed from a single market operator in Qatar to an international communications company with a global customer base of more than 114 million customers worldwide (as of September 2015) and consolidated revenues of QAR 24.2 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2015.

In 2010 the company upgraded its 3G network in the country and launched its Mobile Money service. By 2012, its network grew with its fiber network that provided services with download speeds of up to 100 Mbit/s, HDTV, and its initial phase of its 4G LTE mobile broadband service. The company's consumer base has grown significantly in recent times, from 1.9 million subscribers in 2008 to 2.5 million in 2012 within Qatar. Its annual revenues increased by QAR 3.5 billion from 2012 to 2013 in a single quarter.

As of 2013, the company unified under Ooredoo Group.

Ooredoo Group was ranked 33rd on Forbes Middle East's 2025 Top 100 Listed Companies.

From Wikipedia’s article on Ooredoo, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Subsidiaries

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Acquisitions

  1. 2022Acquired Three Indonesia1

Timeline

  1. 1987Founded Founded1

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