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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Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) is the official charity partner for International Telecoms Week in 2021.
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Radware's telecoms customers saw attack volumes amounting to 18TB per month in Q2, with an average of 600 attacks every 30 days.
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Capacity’s Alan Burkitt-Gray of Capacity TV speaks to Georges Jaber, Vice President, Wholesale Commercial, Salam; on the recent rebrand and what’s coming next for the business
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Cloud and network connectivity provider GBI (Gulf Bridge International) is expanding its collaboration with Equinix by establishing a point-of-presence at the Equinix data centre in Oman.
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Total international bandwidth more than quadrupled between 2016 and 2020, to exceed 2 Pbps.
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NTT Data has carved out a new division, covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America, with a new CEO.
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Google has confirmed two subsea cable projects linking the Middle East with southern Europe and Asia, are to be built and delivered in collaboration with Sparkle.
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The new Europe-to-India cable that Aqua Comms will manage will be the first of a number of new subsea investments by the company’s owner, Digital 9 Infrastructure.
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The owner of Aqua Comms is making its first new investment in a subsea cable following its US$215 million takeover in April.
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Infinera is to deploy its Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON) technology for Hatif Libya, a subsidiary of Libyan Telecommunication Holding Company (LPTIC).
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The last day to submit an entry to the Global Carrier Awards 2021, is 29 July.
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Five Middle East mobile operators have announced they are working together to push forward their work towards open RAN technology in their networks.
