MOBILY SIGNS A STRATEGIC CONTRACT WITH EMAAR ECONOMIC CITY

Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) announces the signing of strategic contract with Emaar Economic City on Tuesday, July 02, 2013 to deploy, operate, and maintain communication networks within King Abdullah Economic City.

The contract was signed by Mobily CEO & MD, Khalid Al Kaf, and KAEC CEO & MD, Fahd bin Abdulmohsen Al-Rasheed.
The contract, which is signed for a period of 8 years (subject to extension) entails a SAR 600 Million investment by the Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) during the duration of the contract to plan, deploy, maintain and operate the Telecommunications network within King Abdullah Economic City and provide advanced infrastructure for integrated telecommunications services, as well as data transmission services and broadband Internet services through an advanced, secure and high reliability fiber optic network.
The company will also provide Data Center and Smart City services, such as (IPTV), as well as Ethernet VPN (L2), IP VPN (L3) Direct Internet Access (DIA), IP Transit, Broad Band at Work, and Business Connect.
Mobily will also provide communications management services, which reduces the time to install and manage telephone communications network for targeted companies in King Abdullah Economic City.

The Funding will be self-financing and through banks as it is expected to generate revenues of about SAR 1.4 Billion during the contract period.
King Abdullah Economic City is the largest and one of the most important economic projects run by the private sector in the Middle East. It is an integrated city built on 180 KM2 with a 38 KM2 waterfront. This city is going to be the largest among the four planned economic cities in the Saudi Arabia.

A 14 KM2 port is also included within the project to be among the top 20 containers port in the world.

 It is expected that the city will have 421 companies and nearly 115 thousand residential units, in addition to educational, medical and various vital facilities.