Ooredoo Global Services (OGS), the wholesale arm of Ooredoo, has announced three major agreements that will extend the range of its international services. These agreements include a new international cable network expansion, a 4G LTE roaming agreement with BICS and an enhanced IP aXchange (IPX) agreement with PCCW.
During the 2015 Capacity Middle East event in Dubai last week, the company confirmed its 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 South East Asia and Western Europe. According to Ooredoo, 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 from bottlenecks or disruption caused by cable breaks.
With BICS, OGS established an agreement that will enable BICS' customers to enjoy 4G data roaming services when they travel. Using BICS' IPX platform, Ooredoo will be able to offer LTE roaming services for customers travelling to more than 75 countries, including major markets in EMEA, North America and APAC.
At the same time, OGS' agreement with PCCW Global will enable both companies to provide PCCW Global customers with multiple enhanced IPX (IP eXchange) and MPLS services when they connect with Qatar's businesses. The interconnect agreement will also enable both companies to collaborate on providing services like VoIPX, GRX, Diameter, HD calling, HD video conferencing, Ethernet, cloud and SDN for carriers and multinational customers, said Ooredoo.
Ooredoo Global Services continues to forge ahead with its strategy to become the premium partner for wholesale carriers looking for connectivity in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. Over the last week, we have signed an agreement to manage a global undersea cable for Ooredoo, and extended our partnerships with two leading companies in order to offer the latest and best roaming and IP services.
