stc and Huawei has launched their 1st initiative, FTTR commercial service out of China the Leading global market, during the Mobile World Congress (MWC 2022). stc and Huawei have identified massive potential market which is aligned with the Kingdom’s sustainable development goals, and Riyadh No1 global speed ranking initiative. Both parties have strategically agreed to accelerate FTTR products in KSA to deliver un-matched Giga experience.
FTTR Massive deployment project scope revolves around, solving through the FTTR, the Wi-Fi coverage problem, and provide customers with stable full-speed bandwidth experience. stc and Huawei jointly work to accelerate and enable FTTR application in multiple scenarios. For example, but not limited to, houses, big apartments and “small to medium business” scenarios. Furthermore, as FTTR installation requires fiber cables laying in the facility, Huawei will enable 8 teams from stc’s Installation team to perform quality installations. Moreover, the FTTR solution will bring huge opportunities for stc, as the FTTR potential targets and market space development are stc’s responsibilities and Huawei team will provide related support.
Additionally, Huawei’s FTTR solution provides a cloud-based intelligent management platform, Network Cloud Engine (NCE), for stc, and a mobile app “stc Connect” for stc’s subscribers to manage their home network.
“With recent booms in e-learning, gaming, and entertainment content and applications, customers are in urgent need of ultra-high speeds with ultra -reliability all over their houses, and this is what stc intends to deliver to its valued customers”, said Eng. Riyadh Alonazi VP for Customer Operations & Experience.
“These types of initiatives such as the FTTR are at the frontier of innovation in an increasingly connected Saudi society. We are proud to support stc as a long-time partner in the Kingdom and look forward to scaling this technology to more premium broadband user’s homes and organizations in the future”, said Dong Ming, President of stc Global Key account of Huawei.
In the next five years, FTTR will reach to more residential areas and enterprises in the Saudi market, stc will continuously help to develop premium broadband services, and drive the growth of digital applications and smart homes, which are in line with the National Vision 2030.