Eng Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Badran,
Chief Executive Officer

KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company VIVA, Kuwait's fastest-growing and most developed telecom operator, and the leader company in investor relations in Kuwait for 2016, has announced that it is the first company in Kuwait to launch a mobile application for investor relations. This app has been designed to keep pace with the era of communications and provide easy access to all VIVA's information at any time via mobile to be one of the main communication channels between VIVA and its shareholders, investment community, the concerned parties and all third parties.

This app is available on mobile phones operating by IOS and Android Operating Systems. The app can be downloaded by searching "VIVA Investor Relations" or "VIVA IR" in both the App Store on Apple devices and Play Store on the Android-Operated devices. Eng Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Badran, Chief Executive Officer at VIVA, said: "Based on the transparency principle which represents one of VIVA values, we always seek to activate and enhance the communication channels with the investors and financial analysts through all the available communication methods which facilitate the public access to all information that investor look for through the most advanced communications tools.

In 2016, VIVA contributed in investor conferences to enhance the communication with all investors and financial community." Abdulaziz Abdullah Al Qatei, the Chief Finance Officer at VIVA, said: "VIVA has enhanced its position in 2016 to be one of the best companies in investor relations in the Middle East and North Africa by enhancing and supporting the investor relations activities and adopting the highest standards of professionalism and competency in communicating with investors and the investment community.

Further to these efforts, we are proud to launch this app that allow all investors to access the information related to VIVA's share performance, financial information through the periodical reports, financial data and the latest news which is published by Investor Relations Department to be in line with our strategy and our commitment to enhance the level of disclosure and transparency to the favor of our esteemed shareholders interest. To see the mobile app features and to download it directly please visit this link: https://myirapp.com/viva/.