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the needs of their clients and helped them working, cinema experience in our living the benefits as they are translating into
respond quicker and better, improved rooms, quick and efficient business profits, growth and innovation.
government administration, revolutionised operations, quick disaster mitigation using
banking and the way we handle money, GPS, more stringent HSSE protocols, are Omantel mobile App acts as the Company’s
brought education to our homes, notched all the result of mobile technology. virtual outlet enabling customers not only
up defence and security capabilities of to view and pay their services but rather
nations, made navigation easier. These Omantel, way before COVID-19 impacted to subscribe to new services, amend
examples just touch the surface. If we economies, was pushing the boundaries of their existing plans, request the delivery
were to elaborate, the list would be an frontier technologies and playing a major of Omantel products to their doorsteps.
unending one. role in the national digital transformation Omantel Mobile App played a significant
strategy that aims to create a sustainable role in serving Omantel customers since
Global case studies point towards a knowledge-based society, raise the the start of COVID-19 especially with the
three-time increase in productivity when productivity and efficiency of the public introduction of the built-in AI enabled
technologies are deployed in combinations and private sectors by building national chatbot “Noor”.
of AI, machine learning, edge computing, capacities, strengthen the infrastructure,
quantum computing, blockchain, big data develop the IT industry and improve the On the other hand, Omantel has responded
analytics, and 5G. quality and execution of government rapidly to new emerging market demands,
services. and has outperformed many players
The COVID-19 pandemic has truly by shrinking the time an ICT innovation
highlighted the real potential of mobile COVID-19 unexpectedly impacted business takes to reach its practical application for
technology, which until then although used, processes, personal communications, individuals as well as enterprises in the
hadn’t received it due recognition – more access to data, learning, transportation, Sultanate.
so because its application has become so retail and much more. Technologies such
deeply embedded in our lives that we fail as cloud, virtual conferencing, IoT and 5G Every vital sector that drives economies is
to identify it a separate power. It is now an which were in their pilot stages, became evolving and embracing mobile technology
extension of ourselves. mainstream, nearly overnight. As the shift in its latest avatar, and Omantel is
arrived, businesses across sectors were committed to make it happen.
Virtual healthcare with robotic surgeries, required to realign their strategies and
distance learning, online shopping, remote operations. Consumers are acknowledging

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