The Communication and Information Technology Commission estimated expenditures on Information Technology at SR 37 billion by the year 2013 in comparison with expenditures amounted to 22.3 billion in 2009. In its bulletin on the Internet on Sunday, the Commission said the total number of subscriptions for mobile services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by the end of the first quarter of this year stood at 46 million, noting that the number of fixed telephone lines amounted to 4.153 million. The Commission noted that 10 million users used the Internet last year.
