An Ooredoo official receiving the award.
Doha: Ooredoo enjoyed success at the CommsMEA Awards in Dubai last week, with Ooredoo companies winning four top honours.
The awards included the “IPTV Service of the Year” for Qatar’s Ooredoo tv service; the “Network Optimization Award” for Ooredoo and Nokia’s inspiring initiative to enhance the Ooredoo Supernet in Qatar; and “Telecoms Technology Investment of the Year” for Ooredoo Oman’s commitment to providing quality coverage to meet the fast-evolving communications needs of the Sultanate.
In addition, Asiacell, part of Ooredoo Group, won the “CSR Campaign of the Year” jointly with Ericsson and the International Rescue Committee for their “Connect to Learn” project in Iraq.
The awards were presented to operators, regulators and other technology and service providers in recognition of their achievements in ensuring that the Middle East and Africa region stays at the frontier of digital innovation. The ‘IPTV Service of the Year’ award honoured Ooredoo’s next generation Ooredoo tv service, which was the first 4K entertainment service to launch in the region.
The crystal-clear Ooredoo tv service was launched in February 2016 and was designed as an evolution in home entertainment services, combining apps, on-demand and live television in one easy-to-use box.
For Ooredoo and Nokia, winning the inaugural “Network Optimization” award is an important testimony to the strength, speed and resilience of the Ooredoo Supernet, which the companies have worked together to upgrade throughout 2016.
Under its Supernet initiative, one of the most significant network evolutions in Qatar’s history, Ooredoo partnered with Nokia to deploy it’s LTE-Advanced carrier aggregation technology to offer subscribers with compatible mobile devices up to 375 megabits-per-second speeds in busy areas of Doha.
Ooredoo Oman received the “Telecoms Technology Investment of the Year Award” for its on-going invest in mobile and fixed networks across the Sultanate. The company has invested significantly in enhancing our 4G Internet quality and coverage in 2016 and has enhanced its fibre optic network to span 5,500 kilometre and cover more than 100,000 households.
The “CSR Campaign of the Year” went to the “Connect to Learn” project, which aimed to support refugees and internally-displaced children attending schools in Domiz Refugee Camp, Iraq. In all, Ooredoo Group and its companies were nominated for 14 awards at the prestigious event.
