stc Group, the Saudi digital enabler in KSA and the region, earned the Excellence Award organized by the Global TD-LTE Initiative (GTI), for its contribution to the innovative “Smart IoT Ecosystem”. The award was announced during the “GTI Online Summit 2022” that was held as part of the Mobile World Congress (MWC22) event in Barcelona. stc was presented and honored through this award for its dedication towards its significant contribution to providing innovative mobile services, applications, and solutions enabled by 4G, 5G and Enterprise Network Solutions technologies for consumers and verticals.
Furthermore, stc signed a number of partnerships with the world's leaders of the communications, networks and information technology industries, during its participation in the Mobile World Congress (MWC22) in Barcelona. The partnerships with Ericsson, Nokia, Huawei, Intel, Cisco and Microsoft, were the most prominent, in addition to other companies, in a step to expand and develop 5G networks, cloud services, edge computing, and accelerate the open digital infrastructure, as well as to establish a "Disaster Recovery Data Center", that aims at enhancing the customer experience and enabling the Kingdom’s digital transformation.
stc’s agreements with Ericsson focused on researching the capabilities of 5G network technologies, enhancing network performance and supporting its deployment in the Kingdom, which will provide stc subscribers’ with higher data speeds, as well as enabling a range of new applications with low response time, and transforming the current structure into an open digital structure to support Innovative services for the fifth-generation network and the Internet of Things.
As stc always seeks to develop and innovate digital systems, the group signed a memorandum of understanding with Microsoft Arabia to cooperate in the areas of digital systems development strategies. The collaboration includes developing a digital platform (MEC) that provides 5G services based on cloud communications - and developing new applications and business models. The memorandum aimed at supporting the fifth-generation services for stc customers, using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and the huge database which will pave the way for improving the customer experience and enhancing the quality of many instant services.
stc is constantly and rapidly expanding the use of cloud technology to maintain its competitive edge, innovation and transform interactions with digital services. Accordingly, the group signed a five-year collaboration with Cisco to create a unified software-centric cloud services package to ensure enhanced hardware infrastructure, automation, virtual simulation services, and coordination tools.
Moreover, stc signed an agreement with Nokia, which included four areas, characterized by the digitization’s development, future of work, climate, and society. The agreement was made to raise the quality of the commercial deployment of 1 terabyte channel, which will allow stc Group, through Nokia’s PSI-M technology, to continue expanding the range of network capacity as well as support new services related to high bandwidth. The agreement also aimed at reducing carbon emissions through the application of best sustainability practices.
stc explored the world’s experiences on providing better broadband services to a larger number of beneficiaries and at a faster speed, as well as the group showcased its capabilities at levels of automation, including its specialized technologies in data centers and solutions designed in the telecommunications cloud. Furthermore, stc exchanged its experiences with the world on how safety, productivity and efficiency affect the operational performance of companies and highlighted critical communication network solutions and technologies which are the basis of digital transformation.
Over the four days of MWC, stc recorded a remarkable presence among the largest telecommunications companies in the world and presented its digital infrastructure achievements, the uses of fifth generation technologies, most notably cooperation with robots, linking ports to the fifth generation network, applying virtual stadiums, financial technologies and sustainability experiences, as well as discussed technological changes, trends, drivers and the potential opportunities for societies and economies, while addressing the global challenges such as sustainability, cybersecurity and digitalization.
Source: Press Release