08.02.13
A Libyan SME has beaten international competition, including Chinese telecoms giants ZTE and Huawei, to win a LD 5 million contract from Libyana.

Telecoms service and solutions company, Alwadi Communications, has landed the contract to install the infrastructure for high-speed internet and reliable mobile coverage to 57 hotels, government buildings and airports.

“Our technical proposal was incredibly detailed,” Aimen Abuaisha, business development officer for AlwadiComs told the Libya Herald. “Because we were local, we had the resources and expertise to analyse each building. We had the tools, the partners and competitive pricing,” he explained. The project will bring what is known as an ‘in building solution’ (IBS) to high-priority structures by running copper feeder cable through each building and installing antennae at strategic positions. “It is a complete change of infrastructure inside buildings for telecoms operators,” Abuaisha said. “High-rise buildings and hotels normally have bad mobile telephone reception and connectivity, because radio signals cannot penetrate them.”

The contract, thought to be the biggest IBS project in North Africa, will take nine months to complete. Work is expected to start in about a month when the first shipment of parts, including some 95 km of copper cable, arrives.

(Source: Libya Herald)