**Introduction Aimed at Accelerating the Transition to the Digital Workplace**

Manama, Bahrain: Batelco, Bahrain Telecommunications Company, has announced its introduction of Avaya Spaces, the workstream collaboration platform for the digital workplace, in collaboration with Avaya (NYSE: AVYA), at the Avaya Stand, during GITEX 2021, the region’s leading technology event, taking place at Dubai World Trade Centre, until Thursday, October 21.

The introduction of Avaya Spaces builds on an already successful partnership between Batelco and Avaya, which sees Batelco offer Avaya OneCloud UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service), through its Bahrain-based Data Center.

Avaya Spaces is an all-in-one video meeting and collaboration solution for the digital workplace that changes the way work gets done in nearly 100 countries. Avaya Spaces helps businesses, schools, governments, and other organizations to bring together distributed groups of people instantly with immersive, composable workspaces where they can message, meet, share content, manage tasks and collaborate in the cloud.

Avaya International, President, Nidal Abou-Ltaif said, “We’re proud of our partnership with Batelco as we continue to work together to solve the business challenges of Bahrain’s top organizations. We continue to commit to the digitization of the local workplace, and to help local enterprises journey to the cloud on their own terms. Batelco’s launch of Avaya Spaces helps to ease that transition even further, enabling our joint customers to quickly and seamlessly accelerate their digital transformations.”

Batelco General Manager Enterprise Abdulla Danesh said that Batelco is delighted to announce its introduction of Avaya Spaces in collaboration with Avaya, during the prestigious GITEX 2021 event.

“Our partnership with Avaya has already seen us deliver world-class communication solutions through the cloud, helping organisations to quickly transform via subscription-based models and we have seen significant growth in demand for these cloud-based solutions since their introduction. Our offering of Avaya Spaces takes things even further, enabling our customers to overcome the limitations of traditional PBX with an easy-to-implement, secure workstream collaboration solution that catapults them into the digital workplace.”

“The addition of Avaya Spaces to Batelco’s portfolio will address the needs of organizations in Bahrain that require the convenience, visibility, and accessibility of workstream collaboration tools deployed in the cloud,” Mr. Danesh added.

Batelco’s digital workplace offerings leveraging Avaya Spaces, are on display at Avaya’s stand at GITEX 2021, located in Zabeel Hall, at Dubai World Trade Centre.

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This press release has been issued by Batelco Corporate Communications & Social Responsibility Department. For further information, please contact Public.Relations@btc.com.bh

About Batelco

Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company), listed on the Bahrain Bourse, is the leading digital communications solutions provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Batelco serves the government, enterprise, consumer, and global markets in one of the most competitive environments in the MENA region. The Company’s comprehensive portfolio includes state-of-the-art mobile, internet, data and cloud services and solutions. The wide range of services also includes Data Center solutions from Batelco’s Tier III Uptime Institute certified facilities.

www.batelco.com

About Avaya

Businesses are built by the experiences they provide, and everyday millions of those experiences are delivered by Avaya Holdings Corp. (NYSE: AVYA). Avaya is shaping what’s next for the future of work, with innovation and partnerships that deliver game-changing business benefits. Our cloud communications solutions and multi-cloud application ecosystem power personalized, intelligent, and effortless customer and employee experiences to help achieve strategic ambitions and desired outcomes. Together, we are committed to help grow your business by delivering Experiences that Matter. Learn more at http://www.avaya.com