DOHA: Pre-paid mobile service in Qatar is the lowest in the GCC, says an International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report.
The monthly pre-paid mobile phone service in Qatar costs 0.26 percent of the gross national per capita income (GNI). In the index of most affordable countries, Qatar ranks fifth among 166 countries. The UAE ranks sixth where monthly pre-paid mobile phone service costs 0.28 percent of GNI. Kuwait (0.39 percent), Oman (0.43 percent), Saudi Arabia (0.65 percent) and Bahrain (0.73 percent) also were in the top 26 countries. The lowest mobile costs in the world were in Sri Lanka, at 95 cents, while the most affordable, according to GNI per capita, was in Macau.ThePeninsula
