A Lebara Mobile operator in Saudi Arabia has inked a cooperation deal in Riyadh on Tuesday night with a giant global ICT solutions provider, Huawei attended by chief executive officers of both the global firms.

Under the deal Huawei will supply Lebara Mobile with its own virtual platform in the Kingdom that would enable Lebara KSA to provide added-values services to its customers around the region.

The agreement was signed by Fadi Kawar, CEO of Lebara Mobile KSA, and Ramadan Ding, CEO of Huawei Saudi Arabia in the presence of executive teams from both companies.

Earlier, Prince Abdulaziz bin Meshaal, chairman of Lebara Mobile KSA, has stressed the importance of this step in enhancing the leadership and the company value, as well as highlighting the strategic value of the latest partnership with global ICT solutions provider to maintain Lebara growth strategy.

At press conference, Kawar said Lebara is a virtual mobile operator in Saudi Arabia, a Saudi company owned by an alliance of major Saudi investors and Lebara Group — currently operates as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) by making use of other company’s existing network infrastructure to provide added-value mobile services to the end user.

Under the agreement, the new platform will empower the second party to become a Mobile Virtual Network Enabler (MVNE), enhancing its position in the telecom sector and being able to provide new additional services to other telecom operators in KSA and across the region.

“Deploying this new platform is a significant step in augmenting the infrastructure of Lebara so that we can provide more advanced offerings” said Kawar.

He said, we aim to provide higher customer service based on transparency, simplicity and quality with competitive and unprecedented rates.