Close on the heels of winning an IT outsourcing deal with Etisalat DB, the Indian arm of Emirates Telecom, Tech Mahindra has secured a deal worth $50 million with Saudi Telecom, which is rolling out GSM services in Bahrain, according to a report.

Saudi Telecom competes with Etisalat and the Zain consortium in its home market. The largest telecom operator in West Asia, Saudi Telecom also has a presence in Indonesia, Malaysia, Turkey, South Africa, Lebanon, Jordan, and Kuwait.

In India, it has a presence through a 25 per cent stake in Maxis Telecom, the Malaysian operator that is the majority stakeholder in Aircel. Earlier this year, it bagged the licence for the third-mobile operator in Bahrain.

“The deal with Tech Mahindra includes IT implementation and managed services. It is one of the largest deals for Tech Mahindra in the region,” a person was quoted as saying in a report in The Economic Times.

He said the deal size could be between $40-$50 million. Multinational firms Hewlett Packard and Cisco, which provide server and networking hardware, have also won different parts of the deal.

Saudi Telecom has announced investments of around $3 billion in the telecom markets of India, Malaysia and Indonesia.