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The enterprise division of Etisalat has formed a joint venture to build the largest pure play cloud managed and professional services provider in its region. -
Abu Dhabi-owned Mubadala Investment Company has bought a stake in Scandinavian carrier GlobalConnect from Swedish investor EQT.
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du says it has pushed the download speed of 5G to more than 4.5Gbps, in a project with Nokia and MediaTek.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has launched its second cloud region in the Abu Dhabi, known as the AWS Middle East (UAE) region.
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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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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%.
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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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