Saudi Telecom selected 'Best Wholesale Provider in Middle East'

The World Communications Awards are recognized as the most prestigious awards for telecoms operators in the region.

The Best Wholesale Carrier category was open to wholesale telecoms providers in wireline, fixed wireless, mobile or converged markets. The judges were looking an innovative business model, successful partnering strategy and new technology deployment and were examining areas such as cost, quality, connectivity, geographical reach and customer care approach. It recognizes market players, who through applying effective techniques and strategies to their wholesale businesses have established themselves at the forefront of the wholesale telecoms industry.

The Award was presented on November 19th, 2008 at the Telecom in Dubai at the city Europe 2008 conference in Amsterdam.

Sa'ad Ahmed Demyati, STC's Vice President for Wholesale Business Unit, said:

"We're very pleased that STC has been recognized as the leading wholesale carrier in the Middle East. This award represents a clear acknowledgement by our Customers, of STC's continuous efforts to offer high-quality Wholesale services. We shall continue to work hard and delight our Customers by exceeding their expectation."

STC operates one of the region's most advanced telecommunications networks. The network spans more than 145,000 Kilometer of terrestrial fiber network connecting all corners of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and extended to all neighboutring countries (UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Yemen), in addition to Submarine fiber systems that connects 35 countries across North America, Europe, North Africa, Middle East and South East Asia. STC offers a broad portfolio of wholesale services including voice over IP, Internet access, IP data services, broadband transport, and many value added services. Customers include PTTs and other carriers, wireless service providers, ISPs, content providers and other enterprises.