Telecom Operators

Guillaume Boudin has been named Chief Executive Officer of Sofrecom, with effect from 1st July  2017.

Alfa CEO and Chairman Marwan Hayek received at Alfa’s Parallel Towers headquarters a delegation from Al Riyadi Club headed by its President Hisham Jaroudi, and comprising Vice President Tamam Jaroudi, Secretary Mazen Tabbara, and the women’s and men’s teams, in the presence of the Alfa administrative body and media representatives. The delegation presented its six cups to Hayek as a tribute to Alfa for supporting and sponsoring the team.

Integrated Telecom Company (ITC), the leading Information and Communications Technology Company and ZTE Corporation, a global leader in telecommunications and information technology, have signed a BSS/OSS and ERP Transformation program agreement in which ZTESoft Zsmart end to end stack will be implemented.

Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, announced that its mobile engagement solution for enterprises - Ngage Messaging Platform will now provide omni-channel customer engagement with the addition of new digital channels. With new channels like Chatbots, Push Notifications and Social Media integration, Ngage platform is now a one stop shop for the customer engagement needs of enterprises, supporting both legacy and digital channels.

du announced its new Teleport Facility, located at Al Qudra area in Dubai, away from planned commercial and residential real-estate developments. The new upgraded facility covers an area of 75000 sq. meters and has been built to enable the expanding requirements of du broadcast customers, to deliver a superior service with a focus on service reliability and close control and monitoring of services uplinked from there. The facility is built to accommodate 50 earth station antenna systems with further room to expand.

Batelco has entered into a partnership agreement with the ENTERTAINER, a leading provider of loyalty and reward solutions, to deliver fantastic benefits for Batelco's customers. As part of the partnership, Batelco and the ENTERTAINER have launched a co-branded mobile app giving Batelco's customers easy access to a wide range of 'Buy 1 Get 1 Free' vouchers from merchants across the Kingdom of Bahrain and travel vouchers for hotels around the globe.

Batelco, the leading digital solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain, has added 11 new international networks to its Data Roaming Packages to boost its services for customers ahead of the holiday season. The great value roaming packages are now available for Batelco's customers in 60 locations including popular destinations such as the UK, France, Spain, Italy, Indonesia and Turkey.

Bharti Airtel has engaged in discussions with search engine colossus Google about the possibility of collaborating together in order to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots in strategic locations across the country in an effort to improve its broadband coverage.

The UAE official Delegation, headed by TRA, has concluded its participation in the activities of the Forum of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Forum held at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, from 13-16 June 2017. This participation resulted in the win of Khalifa Students Empowerment Program 'Aqdar' of the WSIS Prize for 'E-Safe School Online Safety'.

NXN has joined forces with McAfee to launch a Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) practice in the Middle East. The MSSP practice will enable NXN to build on their already impressive Smart City Managed Service offering by providing governments & enterprises in the GCC, particularly in the critical infrastructure sector, security monitoring, threat detection and analysis services.