Past ONE KSA has been named Finest MVNO within the Center East on the Telecom Overview Excellence Awards. Led by CEO Yaarob Alsayegh, Past ONE KSA is the Saudi Arabian working firm of digital providers group Past ONE. The award was offered just lately at The Ritz Carlton, Dubai, Jumeirah Seashore, the place Hani ElKukhun, Appearing Group CEO, and Remo Schmid, Chairman, accepted it on behalf of the Past ONE KSA group.
The award recognises a interval of sturdy, worthwhile progress for the enterprise. Past ONE KSA is in the present day the most important MVNO in Saudi Arabia, with near half of the Kingdom’s MVNO market and roughly a tenth of the whole cellular market. It’s also the quickest rising MVNO within the Kingdom, ranked first for base progress.
Since 2023, its energetic buyer base has grown by greater than a 3rd. Collectively, these outcomes replicate progress that creates lasting worth for purchasers and for the enterprise.
Behind that progress is a transparent thought: serve every group in the best way that fits it finest. Virgin Cellular provides Saudi clients premium, digital first plans. Friendi Cellular is constructed for the Kingdom’s expatriate group, with honest costs and worldwide connectivity at its coronary heart. Two manufacturers, two communities, one shared platform.
The identical concentrate on individuals has formed how the corporate innovates. In 2025, Past ONE launched Virgin Cellular Swap Postpaid, Saudi Arabia’s first pay as you utilize postpaid plan, giving clients the benefit of postpaid whereas paying just for the information they use. In 2026, it launched Virgin Cellular Aman Plans, the Kingdom’s first community degree youngster safety service, created in response to oldsters’ issues about their kids’s digital lives.
Over the identical interval, Past ONE KSA has grown right into a wider vary of on a regular basis providers. Dwelling Broadband with Virgin Cellular Vnet now connects households and Friendi Pay brings cellular monetary providers to the expatriate group, supporting monetary inclusion in keeping with Imaginative and prescient 2030.
Hani ElKukhun, Appearing Group CEO, Past ONE, mentioned: “This win belongs to our group in Saudi Arabia as we settle for this award on their behalf. Beneath Yaarob’s management as CEO, Past ONE KSA has proven that progress and worth can go hand in hand and that the most effective concepts begin with actual individuals. Dad and mom wished a safer digital world for his or her kids, and Aman Plans gave them that. Prospects wished a fairer option to pay, and Virgin Cellular Swap Postpaid adopted. We’re happy with each one that made this attainable.”
Yaarob Alsayegh, CEO, Past ONE KSA, mentioned: “Being named Finest MVNO within the Center East is a proud second for each considered one of us in Saudi Arabia. Every little thing we construct begins with listening to our clients and the communities we serve. That’s the reason we’ve grown from cellular into dwelling broadband and cellular monetary providers, so our clients have one accomplice for a way they join, stay and pay. This award belongs to our clients as a lot as our group, and it provides us much more power for what we’ll construct subsequent within the Kingdom.”
Earlier within the day, Hani ElKukhun joined fellow business leaders on the Telecom Leaders’ Panel at Telecom Overview Summit 2026.
Wanting forward, Past ONE KSA will construct on this basis by rising its providers for households, households and the expatriate group, with one objective in thoughts: making on a regular basis connectivity less complicated and fairer for purchasers throughout the Kingdom.
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