en.Wedoany.com Reported - Recently, Qatari telecom operator Ooredoo announced the establishment of an independent company, Al Abraj, to operate and manage its passive telecom tower infrastructure assets within Qatar. The company has obtained relevant regulatory approvals, including from the Communications Regulatory Authority of Qatar, marking the first operational asset carve-out under the Ooredoo TowerCo plan.
Al Abraj will take over Ooredoo Qatar's telecom tower assets as an independent entity, with a business focus on the specialized operation of sites, towers, and related passive infrastructure.
Such carve-outs in the telecom industry typically revolve around "asset-light operations" and "infrastructure platformization." For operators, the coverage quality of mobile communication networks still depends on site density, tower resources, power supply assurance, maintenance efficiency, and subsequent expansion capacity. However, these assets tie up capital for long periods, have lengthy maintenance cycles, and involve heavy management chains. By transferring passive telecom tower infrastructure to an independent company, Ooredoo can position spectrum, core networks, mobile services, enterprise digital services, and customer operations more front-end, while allowing tower assets to operate with clearer costs, revenues, and investment pacing. For the Qatari market, centralized management of telecom tower resources also facilitates subsequent 5G expansion, enterprise private networks, IoT nodes, and low-latency communication scenario deployment.
Ooredoo has also appointed Khalid Barzak as General Manager of Al Abraj. He has years of management experience in the telecom industry and has been involved in Ooredoo Group's telecom, digital services, investment, and partnership businesses.
The establishment of Al Abraj continues Ooredoo's recent approach to carving out infrastructure businesses. Previously, the Group had advanced the independent operation of regional data center businesses and planned to spin off its international connectivity and submarine cable infrastructure business into an independent company, Ooredoo Fibre Networks. Telecom operators are re-separating the roles of "network asset holder" and "digital service operator": underlying facilities such as towers, data centers, and cables are closer to long-term asset platforms, while mobile communications, cloud connectivity, enterprise services, and digital applications require faster responses to customer needs. As Qatar is a relatively fast-growing market for digital infrastructure in the Gulf region, whether Al Abraj can achieve scale in site sharing, capital efficiency, 5G network expansion, and cross-operator infrastructure services will directly impact the actual effectiveness of Ooredoo's telecom infrastructure platformization transformation.
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