A Study of Mobile Inbound Roamers Data During Occupation Period 2008-2009 In Iraq

Abstract

  Roaming data is an important source of information about the political and social activities of a country. And this is true for Iraq situation after 2003 when the mobile companies started their business. In this paper, data of subscribers roamed onto foreign networks (inbound roamers) is collected; it consists of the name of the Radio Control Point, the counter dealing with this type of information, Mobile Network Code/Mobile Country Code tupel.  This data is processed. Results obtained out of this process show the classification of the inbound roamers (according to their countries) during the occupation period (2008-2009). These results reflect the political situation of Iraq at that time. Information resulted from this process is useful for people who make decisions. Acknowledgment: the data handled in this report is a real data belong to the former Iraqna mobile company who worked in Iraq between 2003-2009. Attempts to get new data from Zain and Asiacell have failed and this is documented with my college.