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{{Short description|Multinational telecommunication company based in Egypt}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Global Telecom Holding S.A.E.<br/>{{resize|11.5pt|{{lang|ar|(جلوبال تيلكوم القابضة (ش.م.م}}}}
| logo =
| logo_size = 200px
| type = [[S.A. (corporation)|
|predecessor = Orascom Telecom Holding S.A.E.▼
| traded_as = [[Egyptian Exchange|EGX]]: GTHE
|location = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]▼
|foundation = [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]] (1998)▼
▲| location = [[Amsterdam]], [[Netherlands]]
|products = mobile networks▼
| owner = [[VEON]] (98.24%)
|revenue = {{profit}} [[US dollar|US$]]2.956 billion (2016)▼
▲| products = mobile networks
|homepage = [http://www.gtelecom.com www.gtelecom.com]▼
| subsid = [[SLTMobitel]]<ref name="SLTY19">{{cite web|url=https://www.slt.lk/sites/default/files/sustainability_reports/SLT_AR_PDFV2.pdf|title=SLT Annual Report 2019|website=SLT}}</ref>
▲| homepage = [http://www.gtelecom.com www.gtelecom.com]
| key_people = Gerbrand Nijman<br /><small>([[Chief executive officer|CEO]])</small>
}}
'''Global Telecom Holding S.A.E.''' ('''GTH'''; formerly '''Orascom Telecom Holding
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Global Telecom
==History==
In 1997, Orascom Telecom Holding (OTH) was established as a separate entity to consolidate the telecommunications and technology interests of the Orascom group of companies established in 1976.<ref name="History">{{cite web | url=http://www.gtelecom.com/web/guest/history | title=History|access-date=2021-11-18}}</ref> Founded in 1998 as part of the Orascom company, it became the largest cellular operator in the Middle East in only five years.<ref name="Dow Jones">{{cite web |last1=Faucon |first1=Benoit |work=Dow Jones Newswires |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106306216787899900 | title=Egypt's Orascom Has Become Telecom Force in Arab World |date=2003-09-09 |access-date=2021-11-18}}</ref>
In 2010, Russian Vimpelcom acquired Orascom Telecom as well as Wind Telecomunicazioni from Weather Investments of the Egyptian entrepreneur Naguib Sawiris and merged the two companies to form Global Telecom Holding based in [[Cairo]]. Excluded from this transaction were the activities in [[North Korea]] ([[Koryolink]]) and Egypt, which were transferred to Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding, which remained majority-owned by Naguib Sawiris. The Italian activities of Wind Telecomunicazioni report directly to the parent company Vimpelcom and are not part of Global Telecom Holding.<ref name="Reuters">{{cite web |last1=Kiselyova |first1=Maria |last2=Dziadosz |first2=Alexander |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vimpelcom-orascom/vimpelcom-in-6-6-billion-deal-to-buy-orascom-wind-idUSTRE6934N020101004 | title=Vimpelcom in $6.6 billion deal to buy Orascom, Wind |date=2010-10-04 |access-date=2021-12-30}}</ref>
Orascom Telecom Holding has been renamed to Global Telecom Holding in 2013.<ref name="Telecompaper">{{cite web |work=Telecompaper |url=https://www.telecompaper.com/news/orascom-telecom-to-be-renamed-global-telecom--967334 | title=Orascom Telecom to be renamed Global Telecom |date=2013-09-17 |access-date=2021-12-30}}</ref> On 1 July 2019 Gerbrand Nijman (since June 2015 GTH's group CFO) succeeded Vincenzo Nesci as GTH's CEO.<ref>{{Cite news |date={{date|2019|07|04}} |title=GTH appoints Gerband Nijman as CEO |pages=1 |work=Global Telecom Holding S.A.E. |url=http://www.gtelecom.com/documents/10157/263377/GTH+CEO+Appointment+04-JUL-19+%28E%29.pdf |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref>
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