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Global Telecom Holding

Multinational telecommunication company based in Egypt

Global Telecom Holding S.A.E. (GTH; formerly Orascom Telecom Holding) is a holding company based in Amsterdam, and a subsidiary of the multinational telecommunications services company VEON. GTH previously owned mobile network operators in multiple countries.2 It was founded by Naguib Sawiris.1 Its chief executive is Naguib Sawiris.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1998Founded1
  • Industrytelecommunications industry1
  • HeadquartersCairo1
  • Founded inCairo1
  • Websitewww.gtelecom.com
  • Legal formjoint-stock company1
  • Listed onEgyptian Exchange (GTHE)1
  • LEI549300KHZMXF57E8LG443
  • StatusActive3
  • LEI statusLapsed (not renewed)3
  • Registered address205 A - NILE CITY TOWERS - NORTH TOWER - 23TH FLOOR - RAMLET BEAULAC, 11221 Cairo, Egypt3
  • Registered withCairo Chamber of Commerce, 3657513

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Global Telecom Holding S.A.E. (GTH; formerly Orascom Telecom Holding) is a holding company based in Amsterdam, and a subsidiary of the multinational telecommunications services company VEON. GTH previously owned mobile network operators in multiple countries.2

Corporate structure

Global Telecom Holding is part of a group headed by VEON. 46 entities, 12 countries on record. Switch between the flow chart and the network, and select any entity to see its details.

Built from parent and subsidiary links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); subsidiaries, stakes and holdings from Wikidata (CC0). Each entity in the chart links to its source.

What it owns

What Global Telecom Holding reports owning in its annual reports to the SEC: buildings, land and equipment, real estate and locations, investments, intangible assets and inventory, at the end of its latest fiscal year and a year before.

Stakes and holdings (Wikidata)

Things Wikidata records the company as owning, with the share when stated.1

The story

Founded by Naguib Sawiris in 1998, in Cairo.1

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. Founded in 1998 as part of the Orascom company, it became the largest cellular operator in the Middle East in only five years.

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. This led to the establishment of two separate companies, Orascom Telecom Holding, based in Cairo, and Orascom Telecom Media and Technology Holding. 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.

Orascom Telecom Holding was renamed Global Telecom Holding in 2013. On 1 July 2019 Gerbrand Nijman (since June 2015 GTH's group CFO) succeeded Vincenzo Nesci as GTH's CEO.

From Wikipedia’s article on Global Telecom Holding, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Leadership

Who has led Global Telecom Holding, and when. Pick a name to see everywhere that person has worked.

Products and brands

Global Telecom has delisted from the Egyptian Exchange (EGX) and is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

From Wikipedia’s article on Global Telecom Holding, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Subsidiaries and ownership

Parent company

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Parent company (GLEIF)

Ultimate parent

From Wikidata.1 Ownership links from GLEIF, the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (CC0); each one cites its LEI record.

Timeline

  1. Aug 31, 2022Parent Directly consolidated by VEON LUXEMBOURG FINANCE S.A.3
  2. 1998Founded Founded in Cairo1

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