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March 08, 2011 Issue 160First Year for Nawras as FullService provider at MuscatFestivallG Unveils premium line-Up at MWc 2011As Muscat Festival finishes after its most successful year yet,Nawras is thanking the thousands of customers who visited itsstand at Qurm Natural Park throughout the exciting month longevent. Visitors from Oman and abroad were eager to find out moreabout this customer friendly communications provider, showingparticular interest in residential internet services as well as its newmobile music service, Backstage.For the first time, Nawras was present as a full service provider, notjust showcasing its mobile offerings but also talking about the latesthome broadband and voice services which will extend to providecoverage to more than 80 percent of Omani households during2011. Customers were interested to learn that they can walk intoany Nawras Store today and walk out with a plug-and-play internetconnection that they can start using without any delay. Internetpackages include a free voice connection and the opportunity tosign up for VoIP services to six popular Asian destinations.There were also lots of questions about Backstage, the new servicefrom Nawras in partnership with Universal Music. This Nawras firstgives customers a library of over 120,000 music tracks to downloadand listen to any time as well as 10 tracks that can be downloadedand kept each month as part of the choice of monthly subscriptionsstarting from only 1.9 rials. After subscribing to Backstage, Nawrascustomers can be amongst the first to get hold of exclusive materialahead of release dates and even have the opportunity to meet theirmusic heroes, attend recording sessions and win VIP concerttickets.LG Electronics (LG) returns to Barcelona this year to introduce two new flagship devices atMobile World Congress: the LG Optimus 3D, a stunning super-smartphone with unparalleled3D performance, and the LG Optimus Pad, a true Android tablet optimised with HoneycombOS designed to offer the full viewing experience of a tablet while still being easy to holdwith one hand.“I’m confident that this year, LG will emerge as a leader in the next generation of smartphoneand tablet devices,” said Dr. Jong-seok Park, President and CEO of LG Electronics MobileCommunications Company. “What you see here today is just the beginning – we willcontinue to innovate with products that address consumer needs and deliver benefits thatlive up to our ‘Life’s Good’ commitment.”Aiming to aggressively take a leadership position in the smartphone market in 2011, LG hasbeen earnestly bolstering its premium smartphone line-up, evident by its strong showing atCES last month. There, the company introduced the world’s first dual-core smartphone (LGOptimus 2X), one of the world’s slimmest and brightest smartphones (LG Optimus Black)and the company’s first phone compatible with 4G LTE networks (LG Revolution). LGproducts debuting at MWC 2011 build upon this spirit of innovation. Key devices include theLG Optimus 3D, the LG Optimus Pad, the LG Optimus 2X and the LG Optimus Black.Anil Khimji Director of Al Khanjar Infosystems said, “This range of innovative smart phonesfrom LG will make a big impact in mobile phone industry; we shall bring these excitingproducts to our customers in Oman as early as possible.”For more information, go to the online newsroom at www.lgnewsroom.com/MWC2011.14