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OMAN
OMAN
Taking EMS, a technology and mobility specialist, has announced its partnership with Omantel to bring
free Wi-Fi Internet hot-spot service for internet user in the Sultanate of Oman. This Wi-Fi service is
available in various public places across Oman and users can connect to these internet hotspots and surf
the internet for free.
Omantel (Oman Telecommunications Company) is the primary provider of internet services in the country
and owns a large network of public Wi-Fi facilities throughout the country, reaching from malls to airports
as well as other public places like parks and hospitals with high public footfall. A part of Omantel’s strategy
is to lead the innovation and digitalisation in the sultanate by offering variety of services and solutions to
cover all telecom needs of today’s fast pace world.
SAUDI
ARABIA
SAUDI ARABIA
Etihad Etisalat “Mobily” has successfully completed the implementation of regional interconnection
project with Iraq by the high-speed fibre-optic network to be part of a broadband network.
The implementation of the project included the provision of special infrastructure of fibre-optic
cables stretching for a distance of more than 80kms from the city of Arar, in Northern borders of
Saudi Arabia to the Iraqi border, which allows greater speed and addition of new telecom markets
in the Middle East.
This comes as an extension to Mobily’s strategic projects that included interconnecting Kuwait,
UAE, Qatar, Bahrain and Jordan, in addition to the three international marine cables connecting
Jeddah and Khobar, which allows Mobily to provide high-quality services in collaboration with
global partners in telecom sector and through its highly reliable infrastructure.
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