Middle East
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Ooredoo Qatar has teamed up with Doha Bank to bring banking and telecommunications products to customers.
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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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Capacity shares five key stories from around the world making headlines today.
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Serverfarm announces the development of ISR1, its first hyperscale data centre facility in Israel.
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Zain Group has announced that its operation in Jordan had entered agreed to sell and leaseback its 2,607 tower portfolio in Jordan to TASC Towers for $88 million.
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Hughes Network Systems (Hughes), confirms that Omantel has selected the Hughes JUPITER System to extend its mobile networks to serve more customers.
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Next generation networks are tipped to transform industry and gaming – but when it comes to sport, 5G, private networks and enhanced broadcasting tech are creating new business cases for network operators. Melanie Mingas explains why it’s a match made in heaven
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Egypt’s telecoms regulator is to spend the equivalent of US$32.6 million improving services in the Sinai peninsula.
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Israeli telco Bezeq has selected Ribbon Communications (Ribbon) to build its new flexgrid 400G optical backbone network.
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Quantum security company Arqit has won a deal to provide security for the Saudi Arabian project to build a new smart city, Neom.
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Mobile network operator Veon has incorporated the GSMA’s Mobile Connect standard into what it hopes will be a global identity system.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has announced that it is selling a 5.01% stake in Saudi Telecom (STC) through a secondary share offering.
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Schneider Electric has released what its describes as a 'comprehensive novel framework' for environmentally sustainable data centres.
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Batelco has named Hani Askar as its new chief global business officer, effective as of last month.