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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From a game-changing cable to reinventing the carrier business model, Veer Arjun Passi, CEO of Kalaam Telecom Group, tells Melanie Mingas how an award-winning acquisition strategy is driving future growth
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Etisalat has offered to increase its stake in Saudi Arabia’s Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) in a deal that could be worth more than $2.2 billion.
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The Middle East is seeing growing demand for advanced services, a trend that is only set to continue. Manolo Ortiz, Nokia’s head for the EMEA region in the webscale business, writes on the need for dynamic interconnection fabrics to cater for these changes.
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TIP and Intel have joined forced with operators from across the Middle East to establish the region’s "first Open RAN centralised test lab".
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Ericsson has not commented so far about last night’s publication of allegations about its activities in Iraq
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from tower sales to contract announcements and the use cases for 6G.
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Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) has published its financial results for FY 2021, recording strong growth for the period.
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SubCom and the SEA-ME-WE 6 consortium confirm that contract is in force and it has started the supply and installation of the SEA-ME-WE 6 subsea cable.
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Arc Solutions and Israeli internet service provider (ISP) Bezeq International have signed an agreement to connect the UAE and Bahrain directly to Israel.
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AFR-IX has selected Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN) as the vendor supplier for its recently announced Medusa Submarine Cable System.
