Ooredoo posts status report ahead of Khareef Festival

Ooredoo has announced that 70% of its network across Oman has now been updated as part of a modernisation strategy which started three years ago. The announcement comes just prior to the Khareef Festival in Salalah, where Ooredoo has deployed additional 2G, 3G+ and 4G sites to give visitors wider coverage, as well as improved mobile data speeds and voice quality.

All Ooredoo base stations across Salalah, from Mirbat to Mugsayl, have been upgraded to provide almost two times more 3G+ capacity in addition to the already turbocharged network. This will ensure Ooredoo customers get high speed data access and a superior Internet browsing experience both indoors and outdoors.

In the festival grounds, customers with 4.5G capable handsets on the Ooredoo network will experience the new LTE Advanced service giving 4.5G with high speeds.

Source: Ooredoo.

The telco says that Ooredoo has seen a significant rise in broadband uptake within turbocharged areas, as customers enjoy the benefits of faster data speeds with higher quality. 

In mid-Oct 2012, the company’s 3G+ network covered 53% of Oman. Today this figure stands at 92%. Today, 4G is widely available in the cities of Muscat, Salalah, Sohar and Duqm. The 4G mobile broadband services now cover over 30% of the population of the Sultanate. Home broadband has also been upgraded from WiMax to 4G LTE TD, with full migration of customers expected to be on the new service by end of August this year.

As part of the 2015 network upgrades this year, the wilayats of Manah, Al Hamra, Izki, Adam, Bahla, remaining parts of Nizwa, Al Mudaybi, Dima Wattayeen, Bidiyah, Ibra, Al Qabil, Jaalan Bani Bu Ali have already been modernised and there will be further rollouts to more cities, including Hayma, Hallaniyat, Al Jazir, Thumrait, Khasab, Bukha, Qurayyat and Masirah.