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Ooredoo and Hutchison agree merger of their Indonesian businesses
Ooredoo and CK Hutchison have announced the proposed merger of their respective telecommunications businesses in Indonesia. Read more…
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Ooredoo signs up more than 100,000 on 5G packages
Ooredoo Qatar has disclosed that more than 100,000 mobile customers have already signed up for its recently launched post-paid 5G plans. Read more…
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Ooredoo picks Huawei for 5G rollouts in five countries
Qatar-based Ooredoo Group picks China’s Huawei Technologies as its strategic partner to fully enable 5G networks and services across five countries. Read more…
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200 Myanmar villages visited to support digital literacy
Two vans, provided by Ooredoo and Facebook, will travel to more than 200 villages in Myanmar over a 100 days to help educate people on digital literacy. Read more…
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Ooredoo supported Beyond Access Myanmar is beyond expectations
Beyond Access Myanmar Program, supported by Ooredoo Myanmar, enhances digital opportunities for communities. Read more…
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FIRA WIRE DAY 1 & 2: Microsoft, Jio, Ooredoo, Openwave
News from MWC 2019, Day Two: Microsoft goes mixed reality; Jio future-proofs network; Ooredoo tags Ericsson for 5G and Openwave reduces RAN congestion. Read more…
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Ooredoo discovers 5G killer app: flying robo-taxi PR stunts
Good news! Qatar’s Ooredoo has found an application for its recently launched 5G network: staging PR stunts with autonomous flying taxis to showcase what 5G can probably do one day. Ooredoo has “commercially” launched 5G Read more…
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Ooredoo Global Services adopts crowdsourced fraud platform from BICS
BICS has announced that Ooredoo Global Services is utilizing its crowdsourced fraud prevention platform, FraudGuard, to block fraudulent telecoms activity targeting Ooredoo’s international traffic. The solution was deployed following a two-month trial and marks the Read more…
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Etisalat, Ooredoo and STC launch 5G so early no one can use it
Three mobile operators in the Middle East – Etisalat, Ooredoo and STC – have each launched what they claim is the ‘first’ live commercial 5G network, despite the fact that the 5G standards are not Read more…
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FIRA WIRE DAY 2: Huawei’s AUTIN, Ooredoo goes 5G, Jio goes IoT, more
MWC18 news from Day 2: Huawei launches AUTIN for complex environments; Ericsson teams with Chunghwa and FarEasTone; Jio taps Samsung for IoT; and is Ooredoo winning the race to 5G? Huawei launches AUTIN to help Read more…