(Telecompaper) Qtel Group has announced that it will change its brand name to Ooredoo. Each of its operating companies across the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia will adopt the new brand during the course of 2013 and 2014. These companies, in which Ooredoo already has a controlling interest, include brands such as Qtel in Qatar, Indosat in Indonesia, Wataniya in Kuwait, Nawras in Oman, Tunisiana in Tunisia and Nedjma in Algeria. Qatar's Qtel has renamed itself Ooredoo in a bid to bring all its international businesses under a single brand identity. The operator has experienced significant growth over the last six years, transforming from a single market operator in Qatar to an international company with a global customer base of more than 89.2 million people (as of 30 September 2012) and revenues of USD 6.8 billion for the first nine months of fiscal year 2012.