Al-Falak has built a network of business partnerships with leading vendor companies around the world.

With its rapidly-growing, highly educated and, above all, youthful population as the driving force, Saudi Arabia is already the largest market for information and communications technology (ICT) in the Middle East and is poised to experience strong and sustained technology growth.

The kingdom is also widely recognized as the largest telecommunications market in the Middle-East region. The number of cellphone users has doubled nearly every year since the 1980s when the technology first entered the market, with penetration rate currently at 32%. A recent economic report has estimated that this figure could grow to 60% by 2014, creating over 20 million subscribers.

The number of fixed operating lines has been increasing at a minimum rate of 10% each year, and internet penetration has experienced similar growth, with Saudis being kept abreast of technological innovations.

The government is helping to lead this integration in the latest technology through investments in infrastructural development and education. An initiative launched by the Saudi Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) aims to raise computer literacy and Internet awareness by providing PCs at reduced cost to one million families.