Latest telecom and ICT market trends in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Khaled Biyari, Group CEO of STC talks about the latest telecom and ICT market trends in Saudi Arabia and how is STC responding to them.
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Dr. Khaled Biyari, Group CEO of STC talks about the latest telecom and ICT market trends in Saudi Arabia and how is STC responding to them.
Marcopolis.net has compiled the ranking of the top telecom companies in Saudi Arabia. View the list of the largest mobile operators in the country. The largest telecoms are STC, followed by Mobily and Zain KSA –the fastest growing and best telecom in Saudi Arabia.
With a total population of approximately 30 million people, the oil state “is a very dynamic market,” Hassan Kabbani, the CEO of Zain KSA, told Marcopolis in an exclusive interview. “There is a very high level of mobile penetration, reaching more than 180%, and very high level of Smartphone penetration.” Such figures are rare in the emerging markets, but typical for the Gulf Arab oil states with its low population density, but huge distances between the different cities and villages.
Sultan Abdulaziz Al-Deghaither, Sr. Director of Network Engineering at Zain
Yes, it is the newest network. We are serving our customers with the latest technology provided by our partners. We are working with the biggest telecom service providers across the world, including Huawei, Nokia, Siemens and ZT. In addition, our fibre network is provided by Alcatel-Lucent, who have a very strong track record in that area.
Abdulmajid Mohammed Alrashoudi, Chief Customer Care Officer at Zain
Mainly, Saudi customers want good treatment, as do people anywhere in the world, and they also want a clear tariff plan. They want their needs to be attended very quickly. We are now trying to reduce our 36 hour resolution timeframe to almost 24 hours. Any kind of operation has issues from time to time obviously, we try to minimise them and to fast-track the solutions.
Hassan Kabbani, CEO of Zain KSA
The Saudi telecom market is a very dynamic market. Having worked myself in various countries throughout the region, I know that the Saudi market is also the most important market in the Middle East region.
Nedal Yusuf Alobidan, HR Operations Director at Zain Saudi Arabia
We are very keen to develop and maintain a high percentage of saudization. This is the general direction of Saudi Arabia and of Zain. The most important asset that Zain has is its people.
Zain KSA is one of the leading telecoms in Saudi Arabia.
Advanced Electronics Company (AEC) was one of the companies created under the auspices of the Saudi Economic Offset Program, which originally started in the mid-1980s. The company focused on critical technologies and dedicated itself to defence electronics, later on spreading into other areas such as ICT and industry (power and energy).
Dr. Ghassan Al-Shibl, President and CEO of Advanced Electronics Company (AEC), a leading manufacturing company operating in military, telecom and industrial sectors, stresses the importance of knowledge economy for Saudi Arabia.