Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 46 | Page 9

NEWS STC sees increased demand for cloud services Royal Commission of Yanbu welcomes Huawei’s 5G and ICT Roadshow T S TC has continued to strengthen its market position with the announcement of its latest results with increasing demand for its cloud services. Eng Nasser bin Sulaiman Al Nasser, STC group CEO, said: “STC continues to improve its performance and achieve positive results, which reflects the company’s strong operational and financial capabilities, its success in implementing its strategy, and developing and diversifying its business by providing the latest integrated communication services, digital and technological solutions. “As a result, revenue from various business units (BU) achieved remarkable growth in the current quarter compared to the same quarter last year due to the www.intelligentcio.com he Royal Commission of Yanbu (RCY) has officially opened the 5G and ICT Roadshow, an initiative of Huawei, which will be stationed at the KFCC (King Fahad Civic Center) in RCY in KSA. Designed to showcase the benefits of 5G networks and ICT, the 5G and ICT Roadshow features demonstrations of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and the latest solutions in the fields of intelligent video surveillance, robotics, Augmented Reality, Wi-Fi 6 and more. The roadshow, which is open to the public, aims to provide a better understanding of 5G. increase in revenue from data, wholesale BU and enterprise BU supported by the innovative products offering in the field of IoT, cloud, cybersecurity and other telecommunication products and services.” STC is now considered a leading company in cloud computing, where it has established several platforms that have made it the largest cloud computing service provider in the region. This comes in conjunction with the increasing demand for cloud computing services in the Kingdom as one of the key platforms for IT development. In addition, the company has become the first operator in Saudi Arabia to make 5G services available commercially with more than 600 5G sites. Li Xiangyu, Vice President of Public Affairs and Communications Huawei Middle East, said: “The introduction of 5G to Saudi society will have a strong positive impact, enabling the use of technologies that will shape tomorrow’s world. We thank the RCY for their partnership as host of the latest leg of the 5G and ICT Roadshow. This is an exciting opportunity for members of the public to come and experience what the 5G world will be like.” Huawei, a leading global provider of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices, has been a partner of choice for telecom carriers globally in 5G network development, in part because of its broad range of end-to-end 5G solutions covering network sites, architecture, protocols, network operations and maintenance. INTELLIGENTCIO 9