The World Is In Your Hands

Central Region Technical Review

Date 8-5-2023
Korek Telecom is the fastest growing mobile operator in
Iraq . We offer the largest and most reliable mobile
network. Our network covers the entire country and its
cutting edge technology ensures we match the best
network quality with best in class services.
Baghdad / CI & CII Regions

Topics:
• Baghdad Technical Organization

• Network Growth

• SWOT Analysis

• Ongoing Technical Projects

• O&M outage review

• Management support
Baghdad Technical Organization
Technology Regional
Manager

69 Technical
budget
Investment Headcounts

NW Core NW Planning
Monitoring & Operation Transport NW
& Field Operation & Planning & Radio Access
PMO & Performance Maintenance Optimization NW Planning &
Regional FLM, Maintenance CS & PS Optimization
Coordination (10) (2)
Operation
Monitoring 24/7 (17) Monitoring 24/7 (12)
(7) 1604 sites (2) 2 ISP service provider
Managing 2 FLM service provider
Deploying new sites outages ,alarms ,MOP Baghdad ,Erbil ,Basra, Mousel Baghdad & Basra
(insource) 9 governorates 4 Optimization
2 network (E/// + Huawei) Packet core projects 2 Planning
Managing projects M2M solutions
(PMO) 5 Drive Tester
Quality Inspection +
Spare Part Mgmt. Core Operation 20,031 cells
(11) 2G ,3G ,4G/9 Gov.
(8) New sites creation
Service quality vs quality standards Operating & Monitoring 24/7 4
core locations /monitoring
Contract Management Resolving customer
(Baghdad , Babil)
MS Provider performance complaints
Technical data analysis CMC complaints
Change management
SP management
dedicated team to implement insource project
Network Overview

Four Core Sites

1- BG1 ( BIAP )
2- BG2 ( IZ )
3- BG3 ( Wazeriah )
4- Babel core

Radio sites information

1656 Active sites
1225 sites 2G+3G+4G
430 sites 2G+3G
1 site 3G
52 total site increment
45 sites Huawei
7 sites Ericsson
Ericsson 33% (559)
Huawei 67% (1097) 56 sites Fiber node in the region
Nine governorates
Regional Network Resources growth

Total Total %
Brand 2022 revenue 2023 revenue Delta Achieve
M$ M$ ment

Tadano 132 122 212 195 80 60% ↗

KUMATSU 341 177 576 461 235 68% ↗

HINO 1254 55 2378 103.95 1124 89% ↗

Others 122 10 133 10.9 11 9%

Network Coverage
Total sites :1656
Salahdeen :
Operational
60
2G
: 60 Diyala : 61
3G 2G : 61
: 60 3G : 61
4G 4G
Baghdad: 0:
: 30 875
1
Anbar : 2G :
Dismantled
178 872
site
2G : 3G :
178 873
3G : 4G :
178 Babil
868 :
4G
Karbala :: 124
2 Halted
165
95 2G
sites :
2G : 124
95 3G :
3G : 124
95 Qadisya
4G ::
4G : 89
29
Najaf
40 : 2G :
135 89
2G : 3G :
135 89
3G : Muthanna
4G ::
135 39
22
4G : 2G :
63 39
3G :
39
4G :
SWOT Analysis
• Highly experience team managing 9
governorates. •Overload due to Team turnover,
• capability to implement insource sites . •Used/faulty Telecom material for new sites.
• Mean time to restore (1:05 Hour) with •Ericson spare parts availability
availability 99.9% •Secure sites transmission by fiber to site
• Capability to implement heavy and light •Delay in RFQ process.
network changes ( project , TXN WOs) Strengths Weaknesses •Re activate EPR yearly bonus
• Region invested in sites generators and
engines by adding ( 13 new Gen. set , 15
new engines ) to enhance performance

•Temporary E/// BSS license. •New packet core and new sites will
•Heavy rain effect on Ericson links ( high utilization acquire new customers in high
links ) Threats Opportunities protentional areas.
•Capacity limitation for Ericson MW links in CII.
•Upgrade sites capacity ( 4T4R swap
•Fiber flaps (DIL-ITPC)
project ).
•Commercial power stability Activate Automation tools.
•Passive spare parts shortage with FLM ( CII area )
•Phase 0 sites expired contracts and problems in
green field site acquisition for replacement
effecting on network typology ( TXN wise )
CI,CII ongoing rollout projects

1- Outsourced projects 2- Insourced Projects

200 FTK sites project ( Bee Cable ) 211 FTK (Korek insource )
102 on air handed over 196 on air
May plan 33 sites with 0 on air plan till 11 may due to delay in delivery materials to region. 7 sites were relocated based on marketing plan in Babel .
Anbar security situation caused delay in delivery. 8 remaining site replacement with cost impact (problematic).
5/38 sites dropped from plan due TXN dependency.
20 FTK Karbala
10 on air
Babel Protection Fiber
9 ongoing
Babel core – ITPC protection connection planned to be done within 2 weeks.
1 owner problem (new owner change his mind) .
Baghdad Packet Core Expansion
Second power source done by Korek Power team ( HQ-Region).
integration ongoing with testing and acceptance by Korek Packet core and IP core with
Huawei .
CI,CII O&M W18 Review : Total trouble ticketed
outages 48
R1 R2
Route cause classification for R2
Route cause classification for R1

Software Bug; 2; 8%
DC battery expire;
Software Bug; 2; 9% 3; 14% PWRs Sparepart; 1; 4%
Design; 5; 19%
NP/EP Problem; 2; 8%

Exceed_RolloutMOP;
2; 9%
Fiber_Cut; 3; 12%
Project; 2; 9%
NP/EP Problem; 2;
9% Fiber_Cut; 1; 5%
Maintenance; 3; 12%

HW_faulty; 3; 12%
HW_faulty; 3; 14%
Maintenance; 5; Legal Korek; 4; 15%
23% Legal Contractor; 1;
Legal Contractor; 3; 12%
Legal Korek; 1; 5% 5%

Total Number of outages 22 Total Number of outages 26

Support Needed from Management :

1- Core sites enhancement responsibility as 4 core sites in CI,CII need civil and
infrastructure repairs .

2- Ericson spare parts availability as we have 0 stock for some active items and
environmental items (CLU).

3- Phase 0 site relocation SOW submitted and waiting PO .

4- pending RFQs related to civil repairs in operational sites .

5- review phase 0 sites cases ( VVIP sites ) with high traffic dependency by related
departments to avoid relocation and lose green fielded sites in urban location as it cannot
be compensated .

6- re activate technical training for new technologies established over network and
depend result part of annual EPR.
THANK YOU