Al Hassawi has been in his current role since 2021. By end of September 2025, du had a 9.2 mobile million subscribers and 718,000 Fixed subscribers. In the first nine months of 2025, du recorded $3.2 billion in revenues. In September 2025, the company completed the secondary public offering of 7.55% of its share capital held by Mamoura, generating proceeds of $857.7 million. In August 2025, du partnered with Microsoft, Nokia, Khalifa University’s 6G Research Center, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to launch an Arabic telecom Large Language Model (LLM).