Salam partners with Nokia to enhance its Digital Infrastructure in Saudi Arabia

Salam signed a partnership agreement with Nokia to implement two projects to improve its digital infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, utilizing the most advanced technologies with advanced capabilities that contribute to improving users’ service experience with quality and innovative services. This project demonstrates Salam’s ongoing commitment to attracting the best communications technologies available anywhere in the world in order to better serve its valued customers in the Kingdom.

Commenting on this partnership, Radwan Al-Mufleh, Salam Chief Commercial Officer, said, “This agreement with Nokia, one of the world’s largest and leading global companies in the ICT sector, supports Salam’s efforts and future plans to develop our digital infrastructure to provide our customers advanced digital services and best broadband experience using the latest high-speed bandwidth technologies. The project further strengthens our company to continue playing a leading role in supporting our nation’s digital transformation journey, and achieving the Saudi Vision 2030 aimed at building a prosperous digital economy and a better future for the Kingdom.”

Commenting on the agreement with Salam, Roger Ghorayeb, Customer Team Head for Middle East Growth Accounts, at Nokia said, “We are proud to have been chosen by Salam to play a vital role in modernizing its digital infrastructure and providing pioneering services in the Kingdom. We are committed to supporting its vision to help individuals reach new heights in digital era, and business customers be smarter, more digital, more integrated and secure. We are confident that this partnership is just the beginning of a journey and will last long, creating a strong positive impact for the people and businesses in the Kingdom.”  

Nokia is upgrading Salem’s existing fiber access nodes in its central offices in three cities across the Kingdom, resulting in a 10x speed increase. Nokia’s solution will transform Salam’s existing GPON networks into a future-proof, highly scalable solution, leveraging Nokia’s Quillion chipset-based line cards. The agreement also includes fiber modems for customers’ homes, as well as Nokia’s 5G Fixed Wireless Access gateways with WiFi 6, Easy Mesh compatibility, and eSIM capabilities, and Nokia’s FastMile Controller.

This agreement is the continuation of a series of significant and fruitful agreements signed by Salam with many leading local and global companies to enhance its user experience with the latest technologies and to support its efforts in providing the best ICT services to all of its customers in the government sector, businesses, and individuals, with high quality services at competitive prices.