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Press Releases 2004-5
December 6, 2005SAGIA Hosts QualComm Seminar SAGIA hosts Luigi Gasparollo and his
QUALCOMM team for a digital wireless technology seminar, focusing on
applications to lower frequencies, December 5 and 6. The seminar will share
QUALCOMM’s focus on advanced technology applications for low frequency
spectrums. Managers from SAGIA, STC, QUALCOMM, Saudi Communications
Development Company, and DevCorp International BSC (c) will attend. Luigi Gasparollo, Vice-President for Development for the MENA Region, Qualcomm Europe, leads the team of international managers and engineers from Italy, Singapore, and the United States. Saudi Communications Development Company, a local telecommunications incubator company, which has fostered a relationship with QUALCOMM for the last five years, arranged the seminar. The presentations will concentrate on
how code division multiple access (CDMA) technology can enhance the use of
low-frequency broadband spectrum for GSM. QUALCOMM Incorporated is a
pioneer of CDMA digital wireless technology and one of the leading enablers of
3G wireless products and services. The QUALCOMM team focuses on how UMTS
is becoming the new standard technology adopted by GSM operators to move to the
Third Generation Networks and how CDMA technology has become a standard for
Wireless Local loops applications. QUALCOMM will present the lessons
learned in supporting the world’s largest operators (such as, Vodafone,
Orange, Hutchison, TMobile, Cingular, Telefonica, TIM) in activating their
networks and services with QUALCOMM ’s technological assistance. The team will
also present a roadmap on the chipset for UMTS phones manufactured by QUALCOMM
that will show the way forward, starting from HSDPA, to new exiting services. In addition, the QUALCOMM team will show
how to optimize a network to best support its customers, the terminals
available, and the data applications. The EVDO variation of CDMA provides
opportunities to increase data speed up to 2.4Mbps, thus allowing a lower cost
per megabyte and the activation of high speed services such as internet access
from home or offices. SAGIA fosters this information exchange
in order to contribute to the integration of higher technology applications in
the Kingdom. The productive use of specific technologies can create
efficiencies for government institutions and the private sector that will
subsequently lead to greater investment in the telecommunications and IT
industries in the Kingdom. As Ibrahim Al-Mishari, Chairman of Saudi
Communications Development Company, points out, “Faster data communication
services available to more people can only increase business efficiency in our
country. Communication and IT services are key in assisting the growth of
our economy. We are delighted to help make the QUALCOMM information
available to STC.”
March 27, 2004Interactive Saudi Arabia Ltd. Opens OfficesInteractive Saudi Arabia Limited (ISA), the latest company approved under the Saudi Economic Offset Program, received its certificate of registration on Sunday, March 21. ISA is a web-based applications and service company that will provide creative solutions to the Saudi government, banking sector and the corporate sector. Local joint venture partners are Hoshan Company, a Riyadh-based office equipment distributor, Ram World, an information technology company, and the Saudi Offset Limited Partnership; Interactive Limited of Dubai Internet City is the technology partner. DevCorp International, the General Partner of the Saudi Offset Limited Partnership, targeted e-government and e-commerce as growing businesses in the Saudi economy and identified Interactive Limited as a technology innovator and contributor. "Enterprise portals and e-government sites designed by Interactive Saudi Arabia Limited will assist the private and public sector in streamlining their operations as well as bring new technology to the Kingdom," said William Barilka, DevCorp Riyadh Branch Managing Director. "We also plan, through our companies, to both create and increase employment opportunities in professional, technology related positions among Saudi nationals." The Saudi Offset Limited Partnership, established in 1997, offers an efficient and effective way for contractors to the Saudi government to fulfill their offset obligations. By investing offset monies in the Saudi Offset Limited Partnership, international businesses put their offset contribution to work in researched and feasible projects chosen and administered by DevCorp. Raytheon Company's $25 million investment commitment launched the SOLP with an additional $10 million commitment from Thales International. Basel Al Jabr, ISA’s President , who served as Secretary General of the E-Commerce National Taskforce at the Ministry of Commerce, will focus on systems integration work for large specialized projects and on building close relationships with multinational information technology companies such as Microsoft & Oracle. "ISA will deploy large size e-government projects on a BOT basis. We believe such mechanisms are needed in the Kingdom to offer online government services to citizens," explained Al Jabr. ISA has also established a relationship with GOTEVOT to train interns in developing multimedia applications, and internet services and applications.
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