Business & Finance Club MAgazine - Communication Sector - MANAMA: Bahrain is one of the Arab world's most competitive mobile phone market, it emerged yesterday.

The kingdom features among the top 10 countries in the region, the Arab Advisors Group said in the results of its Cellular Competition Intensity Index 2010 on the sidelines of the 7th annual Media and Telecoms Convergence Conference in Amman.

The index takes into account the number of operators, packages, and services available in each of the 19 countries covered by the group.

Each category was assigned a certain weight according to its importance as an indicator of competition.

The categories include the following: Number of licensed and expected operators in 2010; number of working operators; market share of largest operator; number of prepaid plans; number of postpaid plans; availability of corporate offers; availability of 3G services and the availability of international long distance competition.