Attended by Chief Technology Officers, Chief Marketing Officers and Chief Information Officers from all of MTC's international operations - spanning Lebanon, Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Sudan and 13 African countries through operator Celtel - the conference has outlined Siemens' latest technology and the potential for new end-user services across the Middle East and Africa.
"We are witnessing an incredible rate of development and ever-increasing sophistication across the region's telecommunications markets," said Soenke Peters, VP Siemens Communications Mobile Networks Middle East. "In this dynamic environment, strong partnerships between solutions providers and operators are vital in ensuring the latest technologies and services are available to consumers."
"MTC and Siemens Communications have built an excellent working relationship over the past 13 years, and this partnership has brought a number of firsts to the region's telecom sector, not least the Middle East's first ever Universal Mobile Telecommunications Standard call in Bahrain early 2004."
Established in 1983 in Kuwait, MTC has grown to serve over 15 million people across the Middle East and Africa.
"MTC has an aggressive, profitable expansion policy that must be matched with partners willing to share knowledge and provide the very latest in wireless technology," said Mr. Khaled Al Hajeri, Group Chief Technology Officer, MTC. "We have already achieved much with Siemens Communications in our operations and we look forward to growing the relationship in the future."
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Siemens Communications and MTC to define growth strategies and introduce latest technologies to the Middle East and Africa
- Lebanon: Sunday, May 07 - 2006 at 16:23
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Siemens Communications, one of the world's largest communications providers, joined with long-term partner and regional telecom giant Mobile Telecommunications Co (MTC), the fastest growing mobile operator in the region, to explore the latest mobile network technologies, implementation strategies and their impact on the Middle East's telecom sector with a two-day 'Leading the Next Gs' conference at the Phoenicia Hotel in Beirut, on May 2nd 2006.
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Siemens CommunicationsThe Siemens Communications Group is one of the largest players in the global telecommunications industry. The company offers a full-line portfolio of innovative solutions for voice and data communication. Its comprehensive offerings range from devices right through to complex network infrastructures and services for wireless, fixed and enterprise networks. It is the largest Group within the Siemens organization and operates in more than 160 countries around the world. In fiscal 2005 (September 30), its 54,500-strong workforce posted sales of over 13 billion euros.
About MTC
Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), the fastest growing mobile operator in the Middle East and Africa pioneered mobile services in the region. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the region's first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our "3x3x3" expansion strategy in 2002, we have expanded rapidly.
As a leading mobile and data services operator in five Middle Eastern and 13 sub-Saharan African countries with 7000 employees, we provide a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 15 million individual and business customers.
We operate in Kuwait and Bahrain as mtc-vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, in Sudan as Mobitel and in 13 sub-Saharan countries in Africa as Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia and most recently Madagascar.
Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code; Tele), MTC's market capitalization exceeded US$12 billion as of April 1st 2006. For more visit: www.mtctelecom.com
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Posted by Anne-Birte Stensgaard, Senior News EditorSunday, May 07 - 2006 at 16:23 UAE local time (GMT+4)
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