Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) and Bayanat Al Oula (Mobily) has signed a three-year agreement with NEC of Japan for provision of network managed services. The agreement represents an expansion in the scope of work between the two parties.

Accordingly, NEC will provide the network managed services for microwave-PTP networks as business solutions reflected on the control and management of daily operations, corrective actions, proactive and preventive maintenance and improving the operating system, as well as keeping pace with the latest developments of the system.

Mobily aims to enhance the competency of its network in the Kingdom with this agreement.

Mobily, which claims to own reliable infrastructure that enhances its ability to provide the best services in this sector, says it is always seeking to maintain its excellence in the provision of high quality services that exceed customers’ expectations, meet their needs and enrich their experience through operational efficiency and high quality of provided services.

This is in addition to the achieved progress in major performance indicators of networks and services level agreements according to global industry criterions.

Maziad Al-Harbi, chief technology officer at Mobily, confirmed that the company works to hold different partnerships with global highly qualified companies that enable the company to provide the most advanced services to its customers, and to establish the principles of exchanging experience with international companies.

Kamal Nasr Aldeen, VP, sales and business development at NEC company’s Saudi Arabia branch, said: “Under the current huge development in data transfer and the increasing competition to provide the best services for customers, it becomes a requirement to develop managed services industry to ensure full competency of the network and improve the operational standards, which in its turn leads to upgrade the service standards and guarantees Mobily to be always at the forefront of operators in the field of data.”