Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced that it has won the ‘Outstanding Leadership and Growth’ award from MEA Business, the region’s first augmented reality enabled business magazine, in recognition of the Company’s various achievements and initiatives. The award was presented to stc during the Technology Achievements Awards 2021, after the Company met and exceeded the criteria set by the judging panel.
stc received the award after submitting all the supporting documents requested by MEA Business, in addition to the independent process executed by the MEA Markets team of gathering and assessing information from a variety of publicly accessible sources. The recognition also reflects the wide range of innovative offerings introduced by stc, including new-to-market solutions that leverage the Company’s strong and widespread 5G network. Through its strategic vision of enabling digital transformation in Kuwait, stc focused throughout the past several years on investing in developing and enhancing its 5G infrastructure, providing individual customers and corporates with the highest quality solutions through its reliable high-speed connectivity.
Despite the unprecedented circumstances witnessed since the onset of the pandemic, stc managed to successfully market its offerings and continuously develop its network to provide the latest fifth generation technology both on a local and regional level. stc also strengthened its network through a parallel frequency spectrum, which in turn enriched the user experience in terms of coverage quality, speed and latency on local and international servers, ensuring seamless usage of its premium solutions.
The Company had also successfully complete the commercialization step of implementing end to end 5G Stand Alone (SA) as the 2nd most disruptive development of the comprehensive 3GPP 5G compliant network. The Company also accomplished its vision of offering the widest network coverage of 5G Sub 3GHz, while accelerating digital transformation through advanced Business Support Systems to fulfill a wide range of industry focused solutions. 5G SA delivered multiple benefits by including enhanced coverage, increased uplink bandwidth and improved network latency with international servers.
On the enterprise level, 5G SA enabled the possibilities of new services such as a 5G Dedicated Line, 5G Live Bus, cloud-based surveillance and artificial intelligence, as well as other solutions that provide a well-rounded experience, leveraging the savvy attributes of stc’s world-class network and IT infrastructure. The end-to-end SA architecture paved the way for stc’s deployment of Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) to become not only Cloud Native, but Edge Native as well. This evolution to 5G slicing based private networks aims to serve customers needs by realizing innovative solutions such as enterprise campus, industry control, and massive IoT for an enhance experience with efficiency improvements and monetization capabilities.
Commenting on the award, stc CEO, engineer Maziad Alharbi said, “When considering the diverse needs of our customers, we aim to take on a leadership role in the market by offering flexible, automated, and reliable solutions that can accelerate their digital strategies. Our range of solutions provide start-ups, SMEs, and enterprises with new-to-market products that enhance efficiency in operational functions, while streamlining the transformation of traditional ways into digitized concepts. This award recognizes the effort and hard work from the stc and solutions by stc teams in identifying lucrative and innovative solutions that greatly benefit the Company’s diverse customer base.”
Alharbi added, “We are proud to receive this award which recognizes stc’s leading position in the market and identifies the various areas of growth the Company has focused on in the recent term. On behalf of stc, I would like to thank all those who played a role in implementing the Company’s growth strategy, especially the Technology team, which led to this recognition. I would also like to thank the MEA Business team for their diligent assessment process and cooperation. stc will continue to leverage its digital solutions, strong network infrastructure, and network of international partners to deliver exceptional offerings to its valued customers.
It is worth mentioning that MEA Business Technology Achievement Awards is a multisector recognition awards agency that highlights significant achievements within the region. The award nomination process is organized by MEA Business Magazine, a leading regional business publication. MEA Business Magazine is part of Creative Middle East Event Management & Publishing, and official Media partner of Gitex Technology week 2021.
Source: stc Press Release