Qatar’s leading telecommunications operator announced yesterday that more than 100,000 customers have already signed up for its recently launched Shahry 5G and Qatarna 5G plans and are now enjoying the many benefits on offer.
Ooredoo’s new plans come loaded with fantastic entertainment including premium football leagues and top-tier global sporting events with the beIN Connect app; Hollywood and Bollywood movies with Starz Play and ErosNow; and thousands of buy-one-get-one free offers at a wide range of"...

Ooredoo has appointed Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulla al Thani as Deputy Group CEO and Acting CEO of Ooredoo Qatar, as of March 8, 2020, the company announced in a statement on Sunday.
Sheikh Mohammed succeeds Waleed Mohamed al Sayed, who is retiring. Waleed had held the position of CEO of Ooredoo Qatar since 2015 and has led the business to continued growth, achieving world firsts and major milestones, such as Ooredoo Qatar being the first company in the world to launch 5G commercially during his tenure.
Sheikh Mohammed"...

Ooredoo Group and Huawei have announced a strategic partnership to make the Ooredoo Supernet fully 5G-enabled with the goal of enhancing people’s digital lives across five countries – Kuwait, Oman, Indonesia, Tunisia and Maldives – over the next five years, a statement said on Saturday.
Ooredoo will leverage Huawei’s world-leading 5G SingleRAN radio solution with advanced massive MIMO technology, and 5G Cloud Core solution with a convergent platform to achieve a full digital transformation and"...

Ooredoo has appointed Sheikh Faisal bin Thani al Thani as the new chairman of the board of directors of Ooredoo Group, as of March 5, 2020, the company announced in a statement on Thursday.
Sheikh Faisal succeeds Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Saud al Thani, who had held the position of chairman of the board of directors of Ooredoo since 2005 and was instrumental in the restructuring and regional expansion of Ooredoo, steering the company’s growth from a single-nation telecom operator to a group operating in"...

Ooredoo Qatar will continue to innovate by providing new ways for customers to find, buy and use its services online, and look to enable more businesses in Qatar to digitalise and grow for 2020 and beyond.

In a statement issued on the occasion of Ooredoo’s annual general assembly meeting yesterday, Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo Qatar said Ooredoo Qatar intends to capitalize on its leadership position as a pioneer of digitalization"...

Qatar’s leading telecommunications operator has announced a milestone in its network modernisation programme, with the successful deployment of Ericsson’s Spectrum Sharing technology.
Ooredoo is the first in the Middle East region - and one of only three operators worldwide - to deploy the revolutionary Ericsson Spectrum Sharing technology on its network in Doha, as part of a modernisation programme designed to enhance the ongoing development of full nationwide 5G coverage and to ensure progress is smooth,"...

Leading operators; China Unicom, Deutsche Telekom, EE, KDDI, Orange, Singtel, SK Telecom, Telefonica and TIM have joined forces, with the support of the GSMA, to develop an interoperable platform to make edge compute capabilities widely and easily available.

The platform to be developed in 2020, will make local operator assets and capabilities, such as latency, compute and storage available to application developers and software vendors enabling"...

The ICT industry is today taking an unprecedented step forward in tackling climate change with the release of the first-ever science-based pathway to reduce Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions across the telecoms sector. This supports the GSMA’s commitment to helping the mobile industry achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The new Science-Based Target (SBT) is the result of a collaboration between the ITU, GeSI, the GSMA, and SBTi to develop"...

Mavenir, the industry’s only end-to-end cloud-native, Network Software Provider and MTI announce the first commercial portfolio of OpenRAN RRUs with the O-RAN interface. The initial portfolio consists of 2x20W RRUs for B3, B20, B7 and 2x40W for B5, B28, B71 with general availability in Q2 2020. More variants and additional band support will be added over time.

This portfolio underpins the ability to start transitioning from walled garden systems"...

Mavenir has announced integration of its 5G cloud-native telecom network functions (CNFs) with VMware’s container-ready Telco Cloud running on Dell Technologies’ edge computing solutions 5G deployments. Mavenir’s 5G deployments, pre-integrated and tested on Dell and VMware infrastructure will help speed deployments, simplify and reduce barriers for deploying 5G while providing new capabilities, including:

• Integration of open source Container as a Service (CaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)"...