Vodafone ‘tops CRA’s audit of quality of service levels’

Vodafone Qatar yesterday said its mobile network topped the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) quality of service levels audit, which involved an extensive assessment of mobile networks to benchmark the coverage of 2G, 3G and 4G networks in Qatar. The audit, conducted from May to December 2017, benchmarked some Key Performance Indicators of services such as data service, voice calls and text offered by all service providers in Qatar.  Vodafone Qatar “ranked first on local data with best speeds achieved” for average download and uploads, the company said in a statement yesterday. On voice, Vodafone Qatar has the “fastest call set-up time and best voice quality, as well as achieving 100% on call completion”, it added. “Vodafone Qatar customers are now experiencing crystal-clear voice quality and enhanced data speeds, which allows for seamless online content streaming and superfast downloads, thanks to a number of capability upgrades made to Vodafone Qatar’s network that is considered the groundwork necessary to launch 5G services,” the statement noted.Vodafone Qatar chief executive officer Sheikh Hamad Abdulla Jassim al-Thani said, “I am incredibly proud of our team’s hard work to achieve these results. Vodafone Qatar is firmly focused on bringing the best network and digital services to Qatar in support of Qatar National Vision 2030. “Our continued investments in infrastructure have produced a world-class network and supported a long track-record of industry-defining innovation. The CRA ranking of our network reaffirms this. And with a growing focus on 5G, we’re steadily building towards an incredibly exciting future.”The summary of the network audit finding can be found on the CRA website at www.cra.gov.qa