Axiom Telecom sponsors key BlackBerry industry event in Orlando, Florida

Press release

Published May 13th, 2013 - 07:38 GMT

Faisal Al Bannai CEO of Axiom Telecom

Axiom Telecom has announced that it is a sponsor of BlackBerry Live 2013, which is the largest annual gathering of the BlackBerry ecosystem. The conference brings together a wide range of audiences in the world of mobile technology, including business leaders and executives, IT administrators and decision makers, mobile application developers, partners, carriers, software vendors, solution providers, and industry analysts.

A long-standing champion of the BlackBerry brand, Axiom CEO Faisal Al Bannai will join a host of senior Axiom Telecom representatives next week in Orlando, USA, for the BlackBerry Live conference.

“We are very excited to celebrate our strong partnership with BlackBerry by sponsoring this key industry event,” said Al Bannai.

“The Middle East has shown itself to have a particularly voracious appetite for everything BlackBerry has to offer, and our BlackBerry Z10 and BlackBerry Q10 smartphone sales have surpassed expectations across the region. As a leading official distributor of BlackBerry products, we are looking forward to connecting with our peers, business leaders, and customers attending BlackBerry Live.”

Axiom Telecom has earned a reputation as a leading provider of BlackBerry smartphones in the UAE by offering a host of incentives and support services, including the country’s only one-hour BlackBerry smartphone repair service (a replacement is provided free of charge if the smartphone is not repaired within the hour).

Axiom Telecom has also won acclaim for its dedicated product demonstration hubs, as well as for employing and training the industry’s most knowledgeable staff.

With 2,000 employees, Axiom Telecom is the Middle East’s largest mobile retailer, currently boasting a portfolio of 575 retail points and reaches over 3,742 points of sale across the region.

In addition to a growing reputation for its product portfolio, Axiom Telecom stands out for a host of customer service innovations such as a 60-second mobile data transfer service; a pick-up and delivery service for repairs; loaner phones during the repair period; and a two-year warranty on select brands.

Background Information

Axiom Telecom

It was 1997 when Faisal Al Bannai decided that there was a better way to trade and distribute mobile devices and accessories. axiom telecom was born. And now it’s all grown up. Today we’re the largest retailer and distributor in the region with 525 locations and growing, and more than 2,000 hand-picked expert employees across the United Arab Emirates, The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.

We’re the major authorized retailer and distributor of some of the world’s most recognizable brands including Samsung, Apple, Huawei, Lenovo, BlackBerry and Nokia. We also deal with various telecom operator partners in each of the countries we have a presence.