Saud Al-Bawardi and Faisal Al-Bannai at the signing of agreement. Mobile Telecommunication Company Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA), announced that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Axiom Telecom Saudi Arabia, allowing them to provide and distribute Zain products and offers directly through Axiom branches and selling points deployed in various regions of the Kingdom. The agreement was signed during the Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. Saud Al-Bawardi, Chief Operation Officer at Zain KSA, said the agreement comes as an activation to the company's operational plans to expand and enhance customers access points to Zain products, services, and special offers, explaining that the company's postpaid and prepaid lines, Internet devices and smartphones and tablets, will be available via Axiom branches which exceeds more than 400 around the Kingdom. Al-Bawardi hailed Axiom Telecom for gaining customers confidence in Saudi Arabia and in the Gulf countries, adding that this agreement will enhance the two companies' ability to provide the best services to all customers. Meanwhile, Faisal Al-Bannai, Axiom Telecom CEO, said the partnership agreement with Zain KSA will help the two sides in providing various communications solutions and customers services directly through Axiom branches, stressing that Axiom is a well experienced company in the field of telecommunications, considering the numerous partnerships it has signed with a number of mobile operators in the Gulf countries, and for providing a wide range of smartphone and tablet devices in the Kingdom and the Gulf countries markets. — SG
