Officials of Ooredoo and its partners with their Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards in London.
DOHA: Several of Ooredoo’s leading companies have won Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards this week, an accomplishment that demonstrates the company’s commitment to promoting human growth across its global footprint.
The four awards were presented to Ooredoo and its partners at the Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards 2013, held in London recently.
Indosat won the ‘Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation Award’ for connecting underserved rural communities, and the “Consumer Service Innovation Award” for its mobile service Usaha Wanita, which empowers women entrepreneurs.
Tunisiana, also part of Ooredoo, won the ‘Consumer Service Innovation Award’ for its Najja7ni Employment service, which enhances employment prospects for Tunisian youth, and the “Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation Award” on the rollout of the IP backhaul network and 3G network.
Ooredoo’s Group CEO, Nasser Marafih, said: “As a company, we are focused on the impact our service have on the lives of our customers and on their communities, so to see our efforts rewarded in this way is very gratifying. We believe that these awards demonstrate the power of partnering with local and global organisations to deliver scalable mobile services. Our customers can look forward to more life-enhancing mobile innovations in the coming months.”
For the ‘Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation Award,’ Indosat and network solutions provider Altobridge overcame the barriers of cost, backhaul and power to deploy lightweight and solar-powered base sites as an in-house ‘rural solution to a rural problem.’
As a result, Indosat has commercially delivered mobile connectivity to rural Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua Island, and plans to use the solution to connect more customers throughout remote areas of Indonesia. For the ‘Consumer Service Innovation Award,’ Indosat was also the first operator in the world to offer Usaha Wanita (Business Women), and more than 8,000 women entrepreneurs in Indonesia have signed up to the service since its launch in December 2012. Usaha Wanita offers tips about business management, banking and credit access, customer management and marketing for small businesses. The Peninsula
