Ericsson and Zain Iraq Win Network Infrastructure Initiative of the Year Award at CommsMEA Awards 2018

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Published November 15th, 2018 - 09:57 GMT

The award was announced at CommsMEA Awards 2018 in Dubai, UAE.

Ericsson and Zain Iraq have jointly won the Network Infrastructure Initiative of the Year award. The award was announced at CommsMEA Awards 2018 in Dubai, UAE.

This award recognizes efforts made by Ericsson and Zain to offer ICT solutions as a cost-effective method for rural and limited-resource schools as a means of delivering quality education for students and teachers under Connect to Learn deployment in Iraq.

The 13th edition of the annual CommsMEA Awards acknowledged operators and individuals who have taken a leadership role in the region’s fast growing and rapidly changing telecoms sector, honoring companies that have invested in technology, implemented winning strategies to help turn the communications sector in the Middle East and Africa into one of the most dynamic and vibrant in the world.

Background Information

Ericsson

Ericsson is one of the leading providers of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to service providers, with about 40% of the world’s mobile traffic carried through our networks. We enable the full value of connectivity by creating game-changing technology and services that are easy to use, adopt and scale, making our customers successful in a fully connected world. For more than 140 years, our ideas, technology and people have changed the world: real turning points that have transformed lives, industries and society as a whole.

Company Profile

Zain

Zain is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the region’s first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our expansion strategy in 2003, we have expanded rapidly. Today, we are a leading mobile voice and data services operator with a commercial footprint in 8 Middle Eastern and Africa countries with a workforce of over 6,000 providing a comprehensive range of mobile voice and data services to over 50 million active individual and business customers as of March 31, 2019.