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Huawei has signed an MoU with du to build a 5G-advanced country project in the Middle East. -
The Mongolian Government and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to boost AI cooperation.
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Batelco, part of the Beyon Group, and e& have signed an MoU for the landing of Al Khaleej subsea cable in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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Infonas and FastIraq, leading national players across Bahrain and Iraq, have merged to create a corridor between Europe and the Middle East, avoiding the Red Sea.
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Fresh off of several announcements, Adel Al Daylami, CEO of Alliance Networks spoke to Saf Malik to discuss the wider goals of the company
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e& Carrier & Wholesale will land the 2Africa subsea cable at its neutral SmartHub data centre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
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UAE mobile network operator du has teamed up with global satellite operator Intelsat to provide coverage to remote areas of the gulf nation.
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The UAE and Kazakhstan have signed a strategic agreement to create a framework for investment cooperation in data centres and AI projects in the Central Asian country.
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Dubai’s internet is at the “highest international standards” after the rapid growth in its local internet infrastructure over the last decade.
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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.
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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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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.
