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Etisalat, Roambee Bring IoT Monitoring

Etisalat has chosen Silicon Valley-based real-time location, accurate arrival time for utilities, construction, facilities
Roambee Corporation to deliver IoT predictions, and live condition analytics management, warehousing, distribution &
solutions for monitoring goods, assets (temperature, humidity, and handling data) logistics with optimization and efficiencies
and workers in the region. Enterprises in to minimize unpredictability and make to guide the digital transformation for
construction, logistics, manufacturing, supply chains more efficient. This preferred companies with connected worker, asset,
public transportation, and other industries partnership is set to eliminate IoT adoption and condition monitoring needs." Adli
are looking to improve visibility of their hurdles by offering an "out-of-the-box" Dehelia, Vice President & Managing
workers and leased or rented equipment service that bundles readily-deployable Director of Roambee for Middle East,
in the field to improve utilization and sensor hardware, IoT connectivity, IoT Turkey, and Africa said: "Our partnership
productivity. This solution enables these platform, actionable analytics, and 24x7 with Etisalat is a testimony to our efforts
companies to digitally transform their control-tower monitoring to mitigate and focus on our enterprise-centric IoT
operations with ease. In Middle East & business risk. With zero upfront investment strategy in the region. We have simplified
Africa, timely logistics is critical to bring and a completely managed service model, the IoT solutions by uniting the core
essential commodities ranging from foods enterprises can start monitoring their strengths of our respective companies.
& beverages, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, assets, and workers in less than Enterprises can now start small and grow
goods, and industrial goods via road, rail, $1 a day. Alberto Araque, Vice President their usage as they start realizing the value
air, and ocean from around the globe. The of Etisalat Digital said: "Together we of actionable data."
Etisalat and Roambee joint solution offers can provide industry specific solutions

Omantel Launches 2019 Sustainability Report

Omantel, the leading integrated challenges facing the improvement
communication services provider of our performance indicators".
issued its annual "Sustainability "Sustainability reports provide an
Report" 2019 under the theme internationally recognized clear
"Amazing Happens Together". mechanism for each business
The report, which comes within sector to measure sustainability
the company efforts to enhance performance and provide us with
transparency with different the opportunity to make annual
stakeholders, is issued in line with comparisons that highlight the key
the guidelines of the Global Reporting achievements and the gaps that we
Initiative (GRI). Commenting on the should address. While we are proud
launch of this report, Talal bin Said of the progress and achievements
Al Mamari, CEO of Omantel, said, made over the past years, we
“In Omantel, we pay great attention also attach great importance to
to governance and sustainability addressing any issues or gaps
in our endeavor to ensure the identified in the report’, he added.
sustainability of our business and Al Mamari pointed out that the
adhere to local and international Omantel Sustainability Strategy took
frameworks and standards related into consideration the Sustainable
to governance and sustainability. Development Goals announced by
Besides being an important channel the United Nations and the strategic
for communication with various direction of Oman Vision 2040. In
stakeholders, sustainability reports 2014, Omantel developed its own
also enable us to measure our Sustainability Framework that
performance in the economic, social included a number of goals for digital
and environmental fields, which in inclusion and social responsibility to
turn will help us in addressing any be achieved by 2020. Among these

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