Ooredoo Oman Wins Best in Network Innovation at 5th TAS Oman Business Awards 2026 for 5G MetaAAU and DWDM Deployments
MUSCAT — Telecommunications operator Ooredoo Oman has been awarded the prestigious Best in Network Innovation accolade at the 5th TAS Oman Business Awards 2026, recognizing the carrier’s continuous capital investment in modernizing its mobile access architecture and national optical transport infrastructure across the Sultanate of Oman.
The annual awards ceremony, convened under the patronage of His Excellency Khalid bin Hilal Al Maawali, Chairman of the Majlis Al Shura, honors corporate institutions driving economic modernization and national competitiveness. The network innovation distinction highlights a year of aggressive technical milestones for Ooredoo Oman, headlined by the deployment of the Middle East region’s first live trial of dual band MetaAAU (Extremely Large Antenna Array) technology. Concurrently, the operator scaled domestic and cross border connectivity routes through the commissioning of a high capacity Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical backbone, expanding spectrum efficiency, strengthening network resilience, and establishing scalable bandwidth pipes for enterprise cloud workloads.
Dr. Jihad bin Ahmed Al-Ansari, Chief Technology and Information Officer at Ooredoo Oman, affirmed that engineering breakthroughs deliver true utility only when subscribers experience immediate improvements in everyday connectivity. Al-Ansari noted that the company’s recent infrastructure upgrades and live trials generated indoor speed gains exceeding 30 percent across densely populated commercial facilities and office complexes, while dramatically lowering latency for real time mobile gaming and reinforcing Oman’s strategic role as an international transit nexus.
The carrier’s infrastructure enhancements are substantiated by independent diagnostic telemetry. Benchmark testing authority Ookla conferred the Best 5G Gaming Experience Award in Oman to Ooredoo for the third and fourth quarters of 2025, derived from rigorous analysis of more than 76,000 consumer initiated speed and latency diagnostics across fifteen thousand verified users nationwide. These network milestones directly underpin the digital infrastructure and economic diversification objectives established under Oman Vision 2040.
