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.
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Ericsson has warned shareholders to be prepared for bad news, following a US decision to investigate its alleged corruption in Iraq.
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G42 and the former Etisalat – now e& – have combined their data centre operations, forming what they claim is the Middle East’s largest data centre provider, aiming for 300MW by the end of next year.
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Internet usage patterns in majority Muslim countries changed drastically as they observed Ramadan according to research from Ookla.
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Bezeq International and Serverfarm will collaborate to build a new data centre in Bnei Zion, Israel.
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DE-CIX is setting up interconnection platforms in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Libya and Nigeria as the start of a plan to expand through Africa.
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Algérie Telecom has built a nationwide IP metro commercial network to support demands for increased capacity as well as future needs driven by 5G and fibre services.
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Colt has selected connectivity provider Nour Global to provide MPLS and internet services across the Middle East.
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stc Group and Alibaba Group have established Alibaba Cloud in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, with an initial capital investment of $238.3 million (SAR 894 million).
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Capacity shares five key stories making headlines around the world today.
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David Mizrahi, the CEO of Israel’s biggest telecoms group Bezeq International will step down from his role.
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STC, Nokia and MediaTek have verified 3 component carrier aggregation (3CC-CA) in a 5G standalone (SA) network for the first time in the Middle East and Africa.
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The owners of Mauritano-Tunisienne des Télécommunications, which trades as Mattel, have agreed to sell 100% of its shares to Telecel Group.
