Etisalat calls on Huawei's consultancy services

UAE-based operator group Etisalat has signed a global consultancy services agreement with Chinese vendor Huawei.

According to the operator, Huawei’s business consulting team will partner with Etisalat to assist in developing the operator’s mobile broadband services and its digital services portfolio.

The primary objective of the agreement is for Huawei to support the operator group in enhancing its profitability through traffic monetisation schemes, premium customer-support solutions and cooperation on go-to-market strategies for new Etisalat services, the operator added.

The agreement will include cooperation on Etisalat projects such as building LTE mobile networks and over-the-top (OTT) media offerings such as Etisalat’s e-Plus packages.

“This agreement continues a long and successful history of collaboration between both companies and presents us with a win-win situation,” said Mr. Ahmad Abdulkarim Julfar, Etisalat Group’s CEO. “With a large and growing global presence of over 139 million customers in fifteen countries, Etisalat Group has built up a large and talented international workforce. This agreement will enable us to further collaborate to bolster the international expertise that already exists in the group.”