Spafax, the experience service provider for travel media and inflight entertainment, has renewed its inflight entertainment (IFE) partnership with Oman Air for an additional four years, extending a relationship that began in 2020. Under the renewed agreement, Spafax will continue to deliver a comprehensive scope of services designed to engage and delight guests, while expanding […]
Cerillion, the billing, charging and customer relationship management software solutions provider, has announced a major new contract, with Oman Telecommunications worth c.£42.5 million. Omantel is Oman’s first integrated telecommunications services provider and is listed on the Muscat Stock Exchange. This agreement is Cerillion’s largest contract win to date and helps to underpin existing market forecasts […]
Paris-based Eutelsat has announced the renewal of its partnership with the Ministry of Information of Oman (MOI) for the continued provision of satellite capacity on the Eutelsat 21B satellite at 21° East. The Ministry of Information will continue to rely on Eutelsat’s E21B satellite for the transmission of its broadcast services, ensuring delivery of national […]
Oman’s Civil Aviation Authority (OCAA) has given the go-ahead for extra space launches from its new Etlaq Spaceport. One launch took place in December last year (NASCOM’s suborbital Duqm-1 rocket). The new facility is also open to foreign direct investment. The OCAA says it can fast-track launch approvals in as little as 45 days and […]
Oman has been granted ITU permission to initially launch a small satellite to be placed in geostationary orbit at 73.5 degrees East. The satellite is described as a “temporary” craft, but it will be followed by a larger craft. But Oman must move very quickly, and get the small satellite into position by this coming […]
OneWeb, and the joint venture entity formed between OneWeb and Tonomus, have announced the signing of a distribution partnership agreement with Azyan Telecom – a satellite service provider in the Sultanate of Oman and the Middle East. The partnership will enhance the capabilities of the existing and future national telecom networks in the Sultanate of […]
The Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO), the intergovernmental organisation established to enable digital prosperity for all, has announced Omantel as the first official observer organisation from the Sultanate of Oman. Omantel, a telecommunications provider in Oman, will bring its unique insight and experience in innovation, startups and telecoms technology to the DCO, in support of DCO’s […]
beIN Media Group and World Athletics have agreed a new deal for the broadcast of all World Athletics events, including the 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships in Oregon and Budapest respectively, across 24 countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a 2-year deal. The World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022 gets under […]
An Omani scientific satellite will be carried and launched from Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rocket when it makes its first launch from Cornwall in the UK later this year. The Omani payload, developed by Earth observation specialist Poland-based SatRevolution, will be put into low Earth orbit to collect climate data. The mission is the follow-on to […]
Omantel, Oman’s integrated telecom service provider, has selected Hughes’ Jupiter satellite system to extend its mobile network and provide backhaul connectivity. The Jupiter System is the next-generation Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) platform from Hughes for broadband services over both high-throughput and conventional satellites. In use at more than 12,000 cellular sites across Africa, Asia […]