Telecom Italia Sparkle and Etisalat announce collaboration on Global Media and Broadcasting Services

Etisalat Carrier & Wholesale Services and Telecom Italia Sparkle announced today their intent to partner and extend video transport services availability across the globe benefitting their customers spread over a wider geographic reach. The partnership will combine the strengths of TI Sparkle’s global network focused in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia Regions, with Etisalat’s leading network and leading position in the UAE, Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) area and the Middle Eastern region.

As part of the agreement, TI Sparkle and Etisalat will pool together their market and network capabilities to offer services for the transmission of media events including fiber, teleport and satellite services, providing support for all the latest video formats and encoding standards, Playout and Head End capabilities, streaming and distribution to Multichannel integrated platform (DTT, DTH, CDN).

TI Sparkle can offer global turn-key Broadcasting Services managing all aspects of the Video Marketplace by leveraging on its global network and commercial presence together with a strong partnership with Persidera, a Telecom Italia Group subsidiary and leading independent TV broadcast network operator in Italy as well as reference supplier of Playout, Head-end and diffusion services for national and international TV players.

“We are very pleased to be in partnership with Etisalat as this is the type of alliance we are looking for to strengthen our presence on the global video services market”, said Alessandro Talotta, CEO of TI Sparkle.

“We look forward to the results of our collaboration with TI Sparkle. The interconnection of our companies’ networks and capabilities will greatly benefit our customers requiring global solutions,” commented Ali Amiri, Executive Vice President, Carrier & Wholesale Services, Etisalat.

Etisalat is one of the world’s fastest-growing telecom groups, rapidly expanding across Asia and Africa. Its UAE operations, strategically located at the crossroads of East and West, enables Etisalat to be the major hub in the Middle East for Internet, voice, broadcast, roaming and corporate data services.