MUSCAT: Comba Telecom Systems Holdings Limited (“Comba Telecom” or “the Group,” Hong Kong stock code: 2342), a global leading wireless solutions provider, today announced that it has been selected as a preferred vendor for Ooredoo Group (“Ooredoo”), a major international telecommunications operator with operations spanning the Middle East, North Africa and Asia.

Accordingly, Comba Telecom signed a group-level global Frame Agreement (FA) for five years with Ooredoo, effective immediately. According to the agreement, Comba is to provide a large percentage of the forecasted volume of base station antennas and associated ancillary products, such as jumpers, combiners, couplers and splitters, to Ooredoo in up to ten geographic markets. Over the next five years, the supplied equipment would help advance and expand Ooredoo’s macro networks capabilities and deliver ubiquitous 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G connectivity to end-users, enterprises and government organisations.

Driven by a growing mobile-first, digitally savvy young generation and with more affordable and functional smartphones becoming available, the Middle East North Africa region has fast become the new hub for advanced mobile broadband networks. In fact, the mobile broadband market in the Middle East is expected to grow by almost 140 per cent between 2016 and 2022, increasing from 1.1 billion to 2.6 billion connected users.1

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