Ooredoo Qatar has signed a three-year agreement with Nokia to upgrade and expand Ooredoo’s existing mobile broadband network across the country to meet ever-growing subscriber demands.
Ooredoo Qatar is already using Nokia’s LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) carrier aggregation technology to offer subscribers with compatible mobile devices up to 375 megabits-per-second speeds in busy areas of Doha, Qatar’s capital and the country's most populous city. In a recent demonstration, the companies achieved peak data rates close to 600 Mbps.
Under the new agreement, Nokia will deploy its leading 2G, 3G, 4G LTE, LTE-A radio and core network technologies and services expertise. This will allow Ooredoo Qatar to expand its LTE-A service, Supernet across the country and deliver the highest speeds and quality to a growing customer base.
Waleed Al-Sayed, Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo Qatar
By deploying these cutting-edge technologies from Nokia, we will continue to actively boost network performance from 2G through to LTE-A, and deliver a host of social, financial and business benefits for Qatar.
Bernard Najm, vice president and head of the Middle East Market Unit, Nokia
This is another important development in our relationship with Ooredoo Qatar, and we continue the successful deployment of LTE technology across the country.
