Vodafone Qatar achieves exceptional numbers during World Cup| Gulf Times - Gulf Times

Vodafone Qatar celebrates its occurrence aft Qatar’s transportation of the largest tourney successful the world. In a statement, the institution has extended its heartfelt congratulations to Qatar and the authoritative lawsuit organisers for hosting an outstanding tourney and praises its employees and partners for delivering connected its committedness to beryllium the web of fans for residents of Qatar and visitors from implicit 194 countries.
To enactment these efforts, Vodafone enabled its world-class web to supply an unforgettable instrumentality acquisition by providing services ranging from creaseless roaming packages to superfast web speeds, dedicated instrumentality offers, and entree to escaped nationalist Wi-Fi that kept fans connected passim the tournament. Joining the celebration, Vodafone unveiled its ‘We Fan Together’ run with the ngo to empower fans with the latest technologies and activities to present an exceptional and engaging instrumentality experience. 1.8mn roaming customers latched connected to Vodafone’s 5G roaming network. Of this, 1mn customers were progressive roamers, who made 3.9mn calls and utilized 854TB of information portion roaming.
To alteration fans’ connectivity, Vodafone Fan SIMs and packages were made disposable astatine each land, oversea and aerial introduction points and hundreds of different locations successful Qatar. More than 419,000 fans enjoyed escaped Unlimited Data Plus Voice for 2 days and were past capable to recharge and get 7- oregon 14-day packs with unlimited data, section and planetary calls, 22GB of GCC roaming data, and Entertainment vouchers.
Underpinned by its robust web and scope of partnerships and integer solutions, including the usage of emerging technologies specified arsenic Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Virtual Reality (VR), Vodafone created a seamless SIM activation process successful which users could activate their SIMs online without visiting a store.
Vodafone saw that the eSIM was a fashionable prime amongst fans, with 69% of customers activating their eSIM digitally. Over 50% of recharges for Vodafone Fan SIMs were done connected integer channels.
In mentation for the tournament, Vodafone deployed much than 365 engineers and experts and laid much than 400 km of fibre optic cablegram to link the main lawsuit locations specified arsenic stadiums, grooming sites, transport hubs, media centres, instrumentality festivals, instrumentality villages and large tourer attractions. Mobile web services with much than 8,466 cells served these venues. To guarantee capable web capableness and afloat resiliency, Vodafone invested successful a 1.2Tbps backbone capacity. High-capacity solutions specified arsenic dual beams and hexa beams were deployed successful highly loaded areas to guarantee customers enjoyed a seamless information experience.
Despite the immense summation successful Internet web traffic, peculiarly astatine sites of footfall enactment specified arsenic stadiums, fans experienced nonstop enjoyment successful the sporting festivities. Vodafone’s web maintained a high-quality connectivity acquisition and superior download and upload speeds for users. Vodafone’s 5G web sum was provided crossed each 8 of Qatar’s tourney stadiums, wherever implicit 15mn calls were made and implicit 1,188TB of information consumed by fans during the matches. During the last lucifer and astatine the tallness of celebrations, 45.8TB of information were consumed, 956,000 dependable calls were made, and 57,000 customers roamed with Vodafone.
Further, Vodafone deployed mmWave 5G which supports higher information speeds than different 5G spectrums reaching up to 4.6Gbps connected the downlink and 734Mbps connected the uplink to enactment peculiar usage cases. The mean download velocity astatine the stadiums was 707Mbps connected 5G with maximum download speeds successful excess of 1.89Gbps. Even with the precocious measurement of traffic, telephone setup rates remained precocious astatine 99.92% with telephone driblet rates arsenic debased arsenic 0.09%.
Knowing nationalist proscription would beryllium cardinal for fans successful Qatar, Vodafone partnered with Mowasalat (Karwa), the authoritative proscription institution successful Qatar, to supply exclusive web sum to 90% of the Wi-Fi enabled buses successful the country. Vodafone’s escaped nationalist Wi-Fi work spanned implicit 4,000 buses and 1,000 taxis, arsenic good arsenic the full Doha Metro network, courtesy of a concern with Qatar Rail. The institution noted that 2.38mn fans utilized 328TB of information portion utilizing Qatar’s nationalist transport system.
Vodafone Qatar besides worked intimately with concern customers crossed Qatar to empower instrumentality experiences down the scenes of the tourney done its endeavor solutions. This included enabling instant and unafraid communications for information agencies, hospitality, and media and event’s organisers with Push-to-Talk Plus.
Vodafone gives recognition to its employees for their dedication, enactment ethic and committedness to excellence, which made the web of fans possible.
Vodafone Qatar is committed to gathering a world-class connectivity infrastructure to continually conscionable its customers’ integer demands. Through its nationalist run Vodafone has successfully enhanced the experiences of section and planetary fans and empowered them to unite successful the sanction of sport.
To find retired much astir Vodafone Qatar’s caller ‘We Fan Together’ campaign, its services and on-ground activations, sojourn https://www.vodafone.qa/fans