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Ooredoo Group attends Mobile World Congress

Published: 23 Mar 2023 - 10:58 am | Last Updated: 23 Mar 2023 - 10:58 am

The Peninsula

Ooredoo Group has recorded successful participation at the world’s largest and most influential connectivity platform, Mobile World Congress. 
A delegation of executives from the Group and operating companies attended the event, holding a series of top-level meetings with industry peers and world-leading tech giants, and inking major new partnerships that aim to upgrade the world of the company’s customers across global footprint. 
 MD and Group CEO, Ooredoo Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo said: “Mobile World Congress is the ideal platform via which we can connect with major players in our industry, in order to cement and develop existing relationships and explore new opportunities; both key elements of our robust corporate strategy. As an industry, we are in an exciting phase of growth, with the rapid development of so many new, innovative technologies. 
It’s vital that we, as a techco leader, remain at the forefront of this development and, in turn, share our own experiences for the benefit of our industry and customers.”
Ooredoo Group signed a number of new partnerships, as well as extensions of existing partnership agreements, at Mobile World Congress 2023. 
The Group expanded its partnership with Microsoft, enabling its operating companies to provide their business customers with additional cloud services, either individually or bundled with Ooredoo’s connectivity services. 
The partnership, which will be rolled out throughout 2023, will encompass all of Ooredoo Group’s operating companies .Two agreements were also signed with Huawei, the first of which will see the ICT leader adopt Huawei’s advanced technologies and latest wireless solutions - including 5G - in Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, and Tunisia, in an effort to upgrade networks and deliver an enhanced network experience for end users.
Under the agreement, the two entities will cooperate for Ooredoo to provide state-of-the-art, mobile-first financial services on Huawei’s platform for both consumers and merchants in Ooredoo’s 
markets.