STC partners with Sify Technologies

Saudi Telecom Company (STC), the largest telecom services provider in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced a partnership with Indian provider Sify Technologies. The partnership is intended to provide customers and partners with a wider network reach and greater efficiency of services.
Sify Technologies CMD Raju Vegesna said, “This partnership will help us deliver the most robust network footprint throughout the Middle East, Africa and India. With the development of joint services, this partnership will enhance Sify’s ability to deliver unparallelled global capabilities, scalability and performance reliability to customers worldwide who demand managed services and connectivity into India, the Middle East & African region.”
Saad Demyati, Vice-President of Saudi Telecom, said the company is the only Middle East operation with international connectivity via both submarine and terrestrial cables, and added that the partnership with Sify will allow the company to deliver best in class network service reach into India, alternative network path and efficient Internet routing and most importantly leverage on Sify’s value added ICT offerings like cloud services, SaaS as well as managed integration services to STC’s customers.”