Billionaire space race the 2016 International Astronautical Congress in Guadalajara, Mexico, Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson elaborated on the Bezos vision previously outlined in the New Glenn announcement. The Blue Origin New Armstrong would be similar in function to the SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System that Elon Musk unveiled at the same conference. Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic are in the same market, suborbital space tourism, with New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo (Tier 1b), respectively. They are in a race to be first to launch paying customers on short spaceshots, with rival technological philosophies of space capsules and spaceplanes, respectively Virgin Galactic and SpaceX support
Virgin Mobile in the region, with various newspapers referring to the operation as an MVNO. Initially the claim was rejected by Qtel and Qatar's telecom regulator, ictQatar, the local telecommunications authority reiterating that its only a branding agreement. However, on 6 June 2010, The Supreme Council of Information and Communication Technology (ictQATAR), instructed Qtel to close all the Qtel Virgin Mobile-branded services in the State of Qatar. ictQATAR notification stated that all Virgin Mobile-branded SIM cards should be deactivated by 4 August 2010. The decision noted that "Qtel had engaged in anti-competitive conduct and an abuse of [its dominant position]", and instructed