Vodafone Qatar in deal to use Qtel data facility

Doha:  Qtel and Vodafone Qatar yesterday announced an agreement that will allow Vodafone to use the facilities of Qtel Data Centre.

Under this agreement, the systems driving Voda-fone Qatar's businesses will be hosted at the Qtel Data Centre and will be managed by Vodafone Qatar's IT department. With a growing customer base, Vodafone's use of QDC will allow the company to extend its switching and billing equipment for their mobile network and deploy new core equipment for their broadband business.

Since the launch of the Qtel Data Centre in 2006, Qtel has provided Qatar's leading companies with comprehensive local and international connectivity, security and protection.

Dr Nasser Marafih, Chief Executive Officer of Qtel, said: "This agreement today marks a major building block towards creating a sustainable shared infrastructure. Infrastructure sharing has already paved the way to a pervasive infrastructure platform for e-government that supports open IP technologies, driving consistency, reliability and interoperability."

"Qtel has invested significantly in the expansion of our Data Centre services, so that companies in Qatar and across the region can benefit from the latest in hosting and managed services," added Marafih.

"This agreement is another important step forward in the collaboration between Vodafone Qatar and Qtel. Vodafone does very successful infrastructure sharing with other telecommunication operators in many other markets all over the world and we're pleased to be implementing this best practice here in Qatar," said Grahame Maher, CEO of Vodafone Qatar.