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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William Natta, communication officer at Télécoms Sans Frontières, outlines the importance of connectivity in education – and how the NGO supports children in crisis
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To keep up with exploding demand for bandwidth, broadband operators are spending significant amounts of money on their networks. Of course, they want to see a healthy return on that investment, but with traffic growing many times faster than revenues, that can be a challenge. How do you close the gap? Where do you invest to increase revenues or reduce cost
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Zain Group has announced that Zain Esports has partnered with the Kuwait Olympic committee to manage a four-weekend esports event from 12 November to 4 December.
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Project Kuiper launch dates; telco negotiation tactics; and GSMA's Stephanie Lynch-Habib
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Global spending on cloud services reached a new record in Q3 2021, to hit US$49.4 billion, however the impact of the global chip shortage on the data centre industry is "imminent".
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Saudi Arabia's STC will deploy Infinera’s ICE6 800G-capable technology on its submarine networks to enable new infrastructure developments, including the development of "cognitive cities".
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EQT confirms that the EQT Infrastructure V fund has held its final close at €15.7 billion in 'fee-generating assets'.
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Communication service providers believe that AI software is key to reducing network energy demand and emissions, according to research from Nokia and GSMA Intelligence.
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Vodafone Foundation has launched an international search for climate change research partners to help expand the focus of its DreamLab smartphone app.
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In this episode of the Digital Digest, we roundup the biggest stories of the week from geopolitics in TMT to sustainability in Poland.
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IBM has published the results of its latest global study on cloud transformation which has found that there is drastic shift in business needs positioning hybrid cloud as the dominant IT architecture.
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Iraq-based ISP ScopeSky is expending its services footprint by deploying SD-WAN for enterprise network automation.
