Qatari telecoms company Ooredoo (ORDS.QA), Kuwait’s Zain Group (ZAIN.KW) and Dubai-based TASC Towers Holding have entered into exclusive talks to create the Middle East and North Africa’s largest tower company, they said in a joint statement on Monday. The negotiations are “to combine their approximately 30,000 telecommunication tower assets in Qatar, Kuwait, Algeria, Tunisia, Iraq and Jordan into...
Ooredoo Group CEO Aziz Aluthman Fakhroo said the operator is in the last rounds of negotiations with interested parties for its portfolio of towers, with a deal it expects to be finalised this year, reported Bloomberg. Fakhroo said in a broadcast interview with the news agency, the long-running process to sell off its 20,000 towers...
Operators are increasingly interested in monetizing their telecom tower assets. MTN, Vodacom, Telkom and Airtel Africa have already explored this option. The Qatari telecommunications company Ooredoo Group announced on Monday September 26 that it plans to sell 20,000 of its telecommunications towers in several of its markets including Algeria and Tunisia. To carry out this operation, the...
In competition with Tunisie Telecom, Orange and Lycamobile, Ooredoo Tunisia is stepping up its investments to maintain its leadership position in the national telecoms market. The subsidiary of the eponymous Qatari telecoms group thus ensures a high quality of service, a source of growing income. The mobile telephone operator Ooredoo Tunisia has strengthened its partnership with...
Algerian mobile network services provider Ooredoo Algeria has deployed Nokia’s cloud-native Core software to bolster its core network capacity and reliability as it prepares to deploy new services. A statement released by the company details its investment in a cloud-based network “with near-zero-touch automation capabilities and high-level operational efficiencies.” The deployment follows Nokia’s support to...
The Covid-19 has increased the social and economic interest of the Internet around the world. Anticipating the continued growth in consumer demand for connectivity, Ooredoo Group is also preparing the telecoms networks in its African markets to respond effectively. Ooredoo Algeria and Ooredoo Tunisia will see their telecoms network evolve towards 5G by 2026. Like the...
