Ooredoo Group will demonstrate a range of innovative solutions and services at the upcoming Mobile World Congress, set to take place in Barcelona, Spain.
The company will demonstrate 5G technology and Voice over LTE (VoLTE) services during the show. It will also showcase range of solutions that Ooredoo companies are delivering over these next-generation networks. Ooredoo has already become the first operator in the GCC to successfully complete trials for VoLTE across a substantial part of its nationwide network in a pre-commercial launch phase.
The company has a strategy in place to use 5G to offer significantly faster data speeds, ultra-low latency, and to enable a host of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions, by enabling more devices to connect to the network.
Ooredoo Kuwait’s delegation will be headed by General Manager and CEO Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah Al Thani and he said, “Ooredoo has shown that faster networks deliver real economic and social benefits across our markets, giving people access to more information, education and transformative services. Ooredoo aims to remain at the cutting-edge of network innovation, which is why we are already taking key steps to be ready to introduce 5G network services as soon as customer demand and 5G-compatable handsets are available, and have already brought Voice over LTE to market.”
In 2015, Ooredoo companies launched 4G+ services in Kuwait, the Maldives, and Indonesia, and set a new speed test record on LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) three-band carrier aggregation technology in Qatar, which launched 4G+ in 2014. The company is already in discussion with a number of technology leaders about beginning 5G trials in some of these key markets.
The company has developed strong expertise in “Smart City” and “Smart Stadium” solutions in recent years. This have been driven by major investment in key markets such as Qatar and Indonesia, where Ooredoo M2M solutions are supporting everything from traffic management services through to smart metering to manage energy use.
