Doha: Ooredoo Global Services (OGS), the wholesale arm of global telecom leader Ooredoo, has announced three agreements to extend services and international support it can offer customers around the world.
OGS was established in 2014 to offer a single point of contact for wholesale carriers looking to access the global networks of Ooredoo’s operating companies, and the company continues to extend its international partnerships to build its position as a leading exchange for voice, capacity and roaming services.
Yousuf Abdulla Al Kubaisi, CEO, said: “OGS continues to forge ahead with strategy to become the premium partner for wholesale carriers looking for connectivity in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia.
“We have signed an agreement to manage a global undersea cable for Ooredoo, and extended our partnerships with two companies to offer the latest and best roaming and IP services.”
During 2015 Capacity Middle East event in Dubai last week, the company confirmed participation as a landing party for one of the world’s largest planned consortium cable projects.
The SMW5 Global Consortium Cable, which will land in Qatar and Oman, will follow a new high speed undersea route linking the Middle East with Southeast Asia and Western Europe and provide upgrade for international networks, enhancing Internet speeds, enabling high quality voice services and improving resilience for people and companies around the globe.
The completion of the cable will provide additional protection and diversity to the world’s heavily-congested cable systems, delivering greater speeds and ensuring that companies and individuals suffer less due to bottlenecks or disruption caused by cable breaks. OGS will manage the landing stations on behalf of Ooredoo.
OGS also announced a new agreement with BICS to enable customers to enjoy 4G data roaming services when they travel. Using BICS’ IPX platform, Ooredoo will offer LTE roaming services to customers travelling to more than 75 countries, including major markets in EMEA, North America and APAC.
OGS also signed an agreement with PCCW Global, international operating division of HKT, to provide PCCW Global customers with multiple enhanced IPX (IP eXchange) and MPLS services when they connect with Qatar’s commercial service sector.
The interconnect agreement enables the two companies to collaborate on providing services like VoIPX, GRX, Diameter, HD calling, HD video conferencing, Ethernet, cloud and SDN for carriers and multinational customers.
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