Etisalat shareholders backed the board's recommendation to pay full-year 2017 dividend of 80 fils per share.

The company announced that Eissa Al Suwaidi and Eissa Abdul Fattah Kazim have been appointed as chairman and vice-president of Etisalat Group, respectively. Hisham Abdullah Al Qassem, Mohammed Sultan Al Hamli, Saleh Abdullah Lootah and Mariam Saeed Ghobash were appointed as members of the board of directors. The seventh member will be announced soon. The general assembly elected four board directors to fill the board seats unassigned for the government shareholder. The new members are Sheikh Ahmed Mohd Sultan bin Suroor Al Dhahiri, Abdelmonem bin Eisa bin Nasser Alserkal. Khalid Abdulwahid Hassan Alrustamani and Otaiba Khalaf Ahmed Khalaf Al Otaiba.