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Qatar National Broadband Network (Qnbn) is a shareholding and a commercially registered company wholly owned by the Government of Qatar. It was established in 2011 by the Supreme Council of Information & Communication Technology (ictQATAR) as one of the region’s first government initiatives giving full backing for Qatar’s fiber optic network rollout throughout the country. Qnbn focuses solely on the deployment of a passive network infrastructure, providing equal and open access to current and future operators. The company is mandated to accelerate the roll-out of a nationwide, open, and accessible high-speed (100+ Mbit/s) broadband Fiber to the Home (FTTH) network.

Role
In line with Qatar National Vision 2030, Qnbn is a major catalyst of Qatar’s advancement providing the latest technology platforms to help achieve a knowledge-based sustainable economy. Qnbn develops a broadband infrastructure to provide an ICT infrastructure for homes, government, businesses and key sectors across the economy. Qnbn signed agreements with state licensed telecommunication operators in Qatar to bring fiber broadband to the country, and plans to achieve 95% coverage of households and 100% coverage of businesses.

Regulation/License
ictQATAR issued an Authorization to Qnbn on July 14th, 2011 followed by a 25 year license in July 2012 to provide Qatar with fiber optic broadband throughout the country, offering wholesale broadband fiber optics infrastructure services to licensed network service providers and operators. Licensed Operators provide the active telecommunications infrastructure, equipment and services component, in order to make retail telecommunications networks and services available to their customers and end-users.