Three-year, multi-million dollar agreement for
MTC Kuwait’s growing telecoms infrastructure 
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait – 1 August 2006 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) today announced
a three-year managed optimisation services agreement with MTC (Mobile
Telecommunications Company) Kuwait, an MTC Group Operation, to improve the
performance of operator’s network across its serving area.
The multi-million dollar contract, which covers the ongoing enhancement of the
telecom network, will enable MTC Kuwait to continue to deliver high quality
service to its ever-growing number of subscribers and satisfy their increasing
demands for new value-added services. Motorola recognized a portion of the
revenue on this contract in the second quarter of 2006.
Motorola’s managed optimisation service, which utilizes market-leading tools
and actual user data, provides an innovative and proven alternative to
traditional optimisation methods and helps to improve performance in a single
or multi-vendor environment, while ensuring that the network operates at peak
performance. Motorola’s experienced, best-in-class professionals and technology
enable service providers to maximize their infrastructure investment and allow
them to dedicate themselves to their core business objectives.
“If MTC is to continue its phenomenal rate of growth, our focus must be on
ensuring that our infrastructure continues to evolve to effectively meet
business and customer demand. We trust that Motorola’s standards-compliant
infrastructure, knowledgeable resources and clear operational processes will
help us meet the objectives of our 3x3x3 strategy that aims to make MTC a
global player in three stages: regional, international and global, with each
stage completed in three years. Motorola’s managed optimisation services
offering gives a framework to benchmark our performance and stay current with
global telecoms technology while lowering our risk,” said Mr. Barrak Al Sabeeh,
general manager of MTC Kuwait.
Relying on Motorola’s managed services is an integral part of MTC’s wider plan
to create and roll out new offerings to their customers in the 21 operations
across the Middle East and Africa, and devote staff resources to customer
service. Under the agreement, Motorola will lend its proven network optimisation
services expertise as well as its first hand knowledge of networking
technologies in the Middle East market to ensure the optimal performance of the
MTC Kuwait network on an ongoing basis.
“Increasingly, telecoms operators in the Middle East North Africa region are
considering managed services for both the reduction in operating costs, and the
continuity and availability of resources that this offering delivers. MTC
Kuwait is among the Middle East’s most aggressive operators and clearly saw the
financial and strategic advantages that a long-term managed services agreement
with Motorola would produce,” said Ali Amer, senior director sales, Motorola
Networks & Enterprise, Middle East North Africa and Pakistan (MENAPAK).
The three-year new managed optimisation services contract complements
Motorola’s twelve-year relationship with MTC, which helped the operator achieve
a range of regional landmarks including the first GPRS network and connecting
the inaugural UMTS point-to-point video and voice calls across a live air
connection. Motorola’s GPRS core network technology services customers in MTC’s
operations in Kuwait, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.
About MTC
MTC is the pioneer of mobile telecommunications in the Middle East and now a
major player on the African continent. We began life in 1983 in Kuwait as the
region’s first mobile operator, and since the initiation of our “3x3x3”
expansion strategy in 2002, we have expanded rapidly.
As a leading mobile and data services operator in 6 Middle Eastern and 14
sub-Saharan African countries with 9000 employees, we provide a comprehensive
range of mobile voice and data services to over 21 million individual and
business customers.
We operate in Kuwait and Bahrain as mtc-vodafone, in Jordan as Fastlink, in
Iraq as mtc atheer, in Lebanon as mtc touch, in Sudan as Mobitel and in 14
sub-Saharan countries in Africa as Celtel: Burkina Faso, Chad, Democratic
Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Kenya, Malawi, Madagascar,
Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Nigeria.
Listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange (Code; Tele), MTC’s market
capitalization exceeded US$11.8 billion as of May 1st 2006. For more
visit: www.mtctelecom.com
Source: Motorola press release
