Qatar's Ooredoo develops technology to help hotels
Qatar’s home-grown telecoms provider, Ooredoo (formerly Qtel), has introduced a new range of technology aimed at helping the hospitality industry keep guests better connected.
Wifi is an ongoing discussion point for hoteliers, with guests rating free wifi as the single most important hotel amenity, topping out everything else.
Recently, Ooredoo (which means ‘I want’ in Arabic), invited hoteliers and tourism officials to see a demonstration of the ‘Smart Hospitality’ suite, and to try them out at Ooredoo’s OASIS Lab.
Waleed Al Sayed, Chief Operating Officer, Ooredoo, said: “The new generation of ‘Smart Hospitality’ solutions will enable companies to deliver the best guest experience, and help them to more effectively manage communication costs and energy use.”
The range includes next generation IPTV, smart Wi-Fi, Ooredoo Cloud Voice and Collaboration Suite, Ooredoo Web Cloud Security and Push-to-Talk – altogether they combine wireless, security, communications, and collaboration technologies.
The goal of the Smart Hospitality line is to enable hotels to create new guest experiences, simplify the hotel network, lower IT costs on property, centralise business data for better analytics and drive global growth without requiring a lot of IT experience on-site.
“The hospitality sector is one of the key pillars of Qatar’s dynamic economy, and is an area where communications technology can make a huge impact. Ooredoo supports many of Qatar’s leading hotels with solutions to provide the fastest in-room Wi-Fi as well as an incredible range of entertainment over fibre,” said Al Sayed
Ooredoo has recently signed agreements with hotels in Qatar to provide high-speed fibre optic internet (which it has been rolling out throughout Qatar for the past two years) and nextgen smart TVs.
Trading on the Qatar, London, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Kuwait stock exchanges, Ooredoo has grown rapidly through acquisitions in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Maldives, Algeria, Palestinian territories, Myanmar, Oman and Bosnia and Herzegovina.