UAE
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With ambitions to capture the growing potential of enterprise transformation, Abou Mustafa, VP enterprise business and Datamena at EITC, is rolling out a new strategy to target verticals in addition to individual customers. Melanie Mingas reports
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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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Yahsat, which began trading on the Abu Dhabi Stock Exchange (ADX) today, is planning to launch a new satellite in 2023.
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Amazon Web Services says it plans to open an infrastructure region in the United Arab Emirates in the “first half of 2022”.
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Etisalat has announced the expansion of its SmartHub data centre footprint with a third location at Kalba, UAE.
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In the past year, UAE-IX powered by DE-CIX has seen a 63% increase in total customer bandwidth – reaching more than 1400 Gbit – while the number of customers increased by almost 15%.
Forthcoming events
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Global Carrier Awards 2022
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Capacity Europe 2022
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Nokia has deployed its AirScale radio platform in the UAE, based on 3GPP 5G New Radio (NR) standards, for Etisalat.
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The UAE-based Khazna Data Centers is to add 160MW of capacity to 2023, as the megascale operator positions to further CONTRACTS WITH private sector and government.
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du, the UAE-based integrated telco owned by Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC) is to launch two new data centres in the early months of 2021.
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Etisalat has claimed the world’s fastest 5G download speed at 9.1 Gigabits per second, by aggregating three spectrum bands.
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Ericsson has been appointed to implement its advanced 5G Radio and 5G Core network, including User Data Management (UDM), for Etisalat.
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Dubai-based telco du has agreed to sell its 26% stake in Khazna Data Centre to Abu Dhabi’s Technology Holding Company.
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Illinois-based FTTH operator i3 Broadband has been sold to Wren House Infrastructure Management, a subsidiary of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), for an undisclosed sum.
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Five countries in the Middle East are the world’s highest users of virtual private networks (VPNs), according to new research.
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A new International Centre of Digital Innovation, known as I-CoDI, is to open in Geneva, Switzerland, following a partnership between the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates.
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A net debt-free Jio Platforms is looking to lift its fortunes further with a possible public listing by 2024.
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Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has become the 10th investor to back Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms, taking a 2.32% equity stake for US$1.5 billion.
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Orixcom, a cloud and enterprise connectivity provider in the Middle East, has announced a new partnership to facilitate better connectivity.