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QATAR
QATAR
Ooredoo and Huawei have announced signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to open a nextgeneration Innovations Lab in Qatar, at a special ceremony at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
The agreement was signed by Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Executive Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, and Eric Xu,
Rotating CEO of Huawei, and witnessed by a number of senior Ooredoo and Huawei executives.
The new agreement is the latest in a series of major agreements and initiatives supported by Ooredoo to
bring cutting-edge technology to Qatar, and to boost research and innovation within the country.
UAE
UAE
Ericsson has partnered with telecommunications operator Etisalat to bring the Ericsson Radio Dot System
to the Dubai Outlet Mall in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
With the Dot running live, Etisalat will be able to deliver superior indoor cellular connectivity to shoppers,
vendors and stores at the Mall. The Ericsson Radio Dot System more than doubles download speeds
compared with the Mall’s previously installed indoor system. Offering reliable, secure and highperformance cellular connectivity is increasingly important to the hospitality sector in order to meet
consumer demands for digitised retail experiences.
The Ericsson Radio Dot System is a compact small cell radio solution weighing less than 300 grams. Its
design, conceived to fit into any environment, offers a number of user advantages: throughput is improved
by up to five times, dropped calls are reduced to zero, and installation times can be as low as four minutes
per Dot. The Ericsson Radio Dot System has also been designed to consume less power than traditional
indoor solutions and improve battery lifetime for the devices.
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