Middle East
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Ooredoo Qatar has teamed up with Doha Bank to bring banking and telecommunications products to customers. -
Nokia has completed the UAE’s first live transport slicing deployment with du, enabling the operator to manage its network infrastructure more efficiently.
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The relentless pace of AI shows no signs of slowing down going into 2025. However, the increased demand for intense workloads has created new challenges such as increased power consumption in high-density data centres.
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Veon has taken a step closer to relocating its group headquarters from Amsterdam to the United Arab Emirates after it received a commercial licence for its new office.
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stc inaugurated two digital infrastructure projects in Bahrain to expand connectivity in the region.
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Mobily and Telecom Egypt have partnered to launch a submarine cable linking Saudi Arabia and Egypt via the Red Sea to expand connectivity in the region.
Forthcoming events
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Saudi Telecom Company (stc) has signed a joint venture agreement with Public Investment Fund (PIF), the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia, to create a new IoT company.
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London Internet Exchange (LINX) and stc have launched two new Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) in Riyadh and Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
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As Capacity Middle East comes to a close, Capacity magazine rounds up the must-follow developments from the last five days.
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Centred on the words of Ivo Ivanov, CEO, DE-CIX International, one Capacity Middle East panel session examined the idea that "latency is the new currency".
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Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) confirms the expansion of its partnership with Equinix through a new point of presence (PoP) in the Equinix MC1 data centre in Muscat, Oman.
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King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) and stc have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to jointly develop telecoms satellite services in Saudi Arabia.
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Back live and in-person at this year's Capacity Middle East conference in Dubai, the keynote panel session had one message to share – its time for carriers to 'rise above the dumb pipe' and enter into the world of softwarisation.
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Edgnex is to build its next data centre in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Batelco-owned Beyon Connect has signed an MoU with Bahrain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to onboard digital identity technology ‘OneID’ and digital postbox solutions ‘OneBox’.
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Bankai Group is now routing all international voice traffic going into Oman for telecoms operator Connect Arabia International (CAI).
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Bahrain’s Arc Solutions and Israel’s Bezeq International are collaborating to deliver a new, low-latency route connecting regional hubs. Arc CEO Mahesh Jaishankar tells Saf Malik what the venture could mean for the region
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Ericsson has told its new chief legal officer, who joined the company yesterday, to start a “comprehensive review of the [company’s] conduct relating to Iraq”.
