section_path: Economy/Telecommunications
section_name: Telecommunications
paragraph_text: Telecommunications
  
  The United Arab Emirates is served by two telecommunications operators, Etisalat and Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company ("du"). Etisalat operated a monopoly until du launched mobile services in February 2007. Internet subscribers were expected to increase from 0.904 million in 2007 to 2.66 million in 2012. The regulator, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority, mandates filtering websites for religious, political and sexual content.
  
  5G wireless services were installed nationwide in 2019 through a partnership with Huawei.