Zain and its subsidiaries provide mobile telecommunication services in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, Lebanon, Sudan, and Sub-Saharan Africa. It operates in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain, and Sudan as Zain; in Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, and in 14 sub-Saharan countries in Africa, including Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia as Celtel. The company offers voice mail, missed calls alerts, fax mail, call barring, and call management services. It also provides pre-paid and post-paid services, voice telephony services, short messaging services, paging services, international calls and roaming services, and video calls, as well as GPRS, email, and MMS services. In addition, Zain offers mobile data services and infotainment solutions, as well as Internet connectivity services. Further, the company provides call divert, conference calls, caller ID, and call waiting services; and value-added services, including balance transfer, Mobinet, and GPRS online, as well as entertainment services, such as ring tones and logos, news information, sports news, SMS to TV, religious, general information, banking and jobs, translation, and rate exchange. It offers its mobile voice and data services through distributors and retailers to approximately 27 million individual and business customers. The company was founded in 1983. It was formerly known as Mobile Telecommunications Company KSC and changed its name to Zain in September 2007. Zain is headquartered in Safat, Kuwait.