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about Oman Australia Cable, Talal Said Al Mamari - Omantel Chief the Wholesale industry and take our collaboration to the next level.
Executive Officer said “We are proud to have been the landing partner Omantel was the Wholesale partner of choice for OAC and has
for the successfully landed OAC, achieving another key addition attracted more and more international partners like SUBCO to work
in our vision for Oman to be the leading gateway to the region and collaborate with us”, Al Mamari further added. Bevan Slattery,
and beyond. Our motto in Omantel’s Wholesale is Reach Further SUBCO’s Founder commented “I am so excited to see our vision of
which is something we truly live, and today we see yet another the first truly diverse route between Asia and the Middle East and
demonstration of fulfilling this mission by enabling our partners now Europe coming to fruition and our relationship with Omantel
in SUBCO to reach further through Omantel’s extensive network”. has been pivotal in helping us to reach further. With the OAC only a
Anchor“OAC is going to contribute in changing the landscape of few months away from RFS, having this capacity in place to extend
our reach into Europe is important to further enable our capability
and addressable market. Omantel and SUBCO are in the process of
completing provisioning and handover of the capacity in readiness
for OAC service commencement. The parties are also exploring
further options to expand their collaboration and to include other
upcoming systems to provide further capability and diversity for
OAC. The system also leverages on being extended into the Equinix
MC1 facility in Oman, which is the first carrier-neutral data center in
MENA which successfully positioned Oman as the natural hosting
location for major hyperscalers and tier 1 service providers in the
region. This ensures open access to the OAC system and hence
further increases the potential of the project. Future phases of OAC
include a possible extension to the newly announced Equinix SN1
data center in Salalah and even beyond.

Omantel Along with Huawei Sign an MoU to Launch a Smart Office Solution
at COMEX 2022

Omantel introduced its Smart Office solutions during COMEX with
cooperation of Huawei for the first time in Oman at their booth
in the Sultanate’s leading ICT Show. The showcase of the Smart
Office solution highlights the strong demand for advanced digital
solutions in the Sultanate and aims to facilitate smarter and
more efficient collaboration. COMEX, Oman's leading technology,
communications, innovation, and digital transformation hybrid
show, was held between May 23 and 25 at the Oman Convention &
Exhibition Centre and on virtual platforms. Baha Mohamed Ridha
Al Lawati, VP Enterprise Unit at Omantel said: "As Oman's leading
ICT solutions provider, we understand the need of our customers
to focus on their business and productivity while allowing us to
digitally evolve their business with the value added ICT solutions
we offer. With our partner Huawei, we bring some of the most
advanced ICT tools and solutions to Oman that will transform how
individuals, SME, and enterprises collaborate. During COMEX, our
customers, partners and visitors experienced our smart offices
solutions coupled with 5G & the seamless integration it offers productivity and optimize meetings at its COMEX stand. These
among all their collaboration touch points, and the simplicity include multi-screen collaboration with seamless interaction
in deploying it in their office with a feasible payment structure.” between the intelligent whiteboard, laptop & tablets. Our smart
Chen Jianhan, Huawei Oman CEO, said: "The integrated Huawei interactive whiteboard “IdeaHub” is a multi-platform that allows
Smart Office solution is at the forefront of ecosystem services video conferencing solutions across multiple platforms and sits
as it creates a seamless digital experience that enables new the heart of the Smart Office. Visitors experienced its advanced
productivity levels for our enterprise customers and enhances capabilities at the stand, including voice tracking and an intelligent
efficient collaboration. This partnership with Omantel extends our camera that identifies and focuses on the speaker. The IdeaHub
longstanding relationship to explore how digital transformation also features low latency writing, auto-correction, and multiuser
can enable customers to meet new demands." The Smart Office writing support, while users can send whiteboard content directly
brings together the computing and mobile ecosystem to connect to their email. The key highlight of this solution is customer can
and share capabilities and resources. Omantel showcased pay overtime over multiple packages to suit the various demands
various Smart Office scenarios that improve the user experience, as they grow rather than a onetime payment.
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