Ooredoo has received five awards at the 10th annual “Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards” held in London recently, the telecommunications company said in a statement.
The awards, which were accepted by Ooredoo Group, Ooredoo Qatar, Indosat Ooredoo, and Ooredoo Myanmar, included honours in the Consumer Service Innovation, Business Service Innovation, Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation, and Infrastructure Innovation categories.
The wins included three awards for Indosat Ooredoo’s eMagic M2M platform; Ooredoo’s Mobile Money service in Qatar, Indonesia, Iraq, Maldives, and Tunisia; and Ooredoo Myanmar’s Bindez-Tha-Din app.
In addition, Ooredoo was honoured with two joint collaborative awards for technology deployments with global giants Nokia and Huawei.
Ooredoo Group CEO Sheikh Saud bin Nasser al-Thani said: “Ooredoo continues to deliver excellence in all our operations, deploying innovative technologies that can make a real difference in the lives of our customers.
“These awards demonstrate how, across our footprint, Ooredoo is establishing leadership positions through advanced networks, incredible customer service, and enriching people’s digital lifestyles.”
Ooredoo Myanmar’s new Bindez-Tha-Din app and the Ooredoo Mobile Money service (OMM) received a Consumer Service Innovation award each.
Launched in 2015, Ooredoo Myanmar’s new Bindez-Tha-Din app is a local language news-aggregation app developed to help connect users with useful, real-time news on politics, business, sport, and entertainment. The app, which has been downloaded more than 750,000 times, was developed with information and technology start-up Bindez and enables rural audiences with poor access to basic services to reap the benefits of information connectivity and sharing. The Ooredoo Mobile Money service (OMM) was developed in 2012 alongside MoneyGram and Qatar National Bank, and today works with multiple partners globally to support 7.5mn transactions per month across its four key markets of Qatar, Iraq, Indonesia, and Tunisia.
OMM is the leading mobile financial service for customers across Mena and Southeast Asia. The award celebrates the service’s efficient distribution, unique models of deployment, and a wide range of services including remittance, payroll, micro-finance, loans and personal insurance, as well as deposits, payment, withdrawal and transfer functionality.
In the Business Service Innovation category, Indosat Ooredoo’s eMagic took home the award, demonstrating the benefits of Indonesia’s first cloud-based M2M platform.
Packaged as a reliable, wholly-managed service that provides critical business solutions, eMagic primarily targets large businesses and service providers that want to deploy M2M solutions embedding connectivity, from GPS tracking, fleet management, smart metering, and industrial telemetry.
In the joint award categories, Ooredoo and Huawei won the “Infrastructure Innovation Awards” in recognition of their close collaboration on Project UNIFY-Transforming Infrastructure with Network Function Virtualisation.
Nokia and Ooredoo Qatar also took home a joint award for Wireless Network Infrastructure Innovation for the Nokia Predictive Optimisation service, which supports faster implementation of performance improvements on the Ooredoo network.
Organised by Global Telecoms Business magazine, the Innovation Awards recognise innovation and excellence throughout the international telecoms industry.
Ooredoo Official receiving the awards on behalf of the company.
