Spending by Saudi Arabian Internet users reached over US$3.2 billion last year...

Reliance Communications’ Fibre-optic Link Around the Globe subsidiary is set to achieve its ambition of becoming the world’s largest IP network over submarine cabling. FLAG has awarded Fujitsu the contract which will double FLAG’s size and build four new cable systems across the Mediterranean,

Encouraging developments within the Gulf have formed the basis of several reports on Developing Telecoms but there must come a time when these Gulf markets enjoy total or almost total teledensity. Daniel Jones, Research Analyst with Analysis, believes that acquiring operators who are active

Real mobile market penetration rates may be less than two thirds conventional figures. This claim is made by the Arab Advisors Group following a recent survey in Jordan...

The Middle Eastern mobile market presents greater revenue opportunities than markets in Europe when taking

Huawei has successfully deployed the largest High Speed Packet Access network in the Middle East ...

The influential Arab Advisors Group has surveyed cellular users in ...

Qtel is leveraging its strong balance sheet resulting from its monopoly of telecommunications in its home market to expand regionally and globally...

United Arab Emirates is the most connected country in the Arab World according to the Arab Advisors Group's annually released Total Country Connectivity Measure (TCCM)...

Saudi Arabia has just awarded its third mobile licence, in this case to MTC. Here, we discuss the implications for MTC's business portfolio in the Middle

Jordan Telecom Group, a subsidiary of France Telecom, has acquired a majority stake in Lightspeed Communications, ...

A group led by Bahrain Telecommunications Co., Hong Kong's PCCW and U.S. Verizon Communications have won initial approval to operate Saudi Arabia's new fixed-line phone network, Saudi regulators have announced...

Siemens Networks has been commissioned by the Arabian mobile operator Qatar Telecom (Qtel) to operate its UMTS mobile network in the State of Qatar... 

Qatar's broadband boom is continuing apace. Broadband accounts grew by 90% in 2006 and now make up two thirds of all Qatari accounts. In recent

Saudi Arabia is on the verge of conducting her third mobile licensing procedure. This represents the last major opportunity for Gulf-oriented

Financial analyst Deloitte has revealed the countries whose rates of taxation, direct or indirect, on mobile communications are the highest in the world. Heaviest tax is in Turkey, where the taxation rate as a cost of mobile ownership is over

Financial analyst Deloitte has revealed the countries whose rates of taxation, direct or indirect, on mobile communications are the highest in the world. Heaviest tax is in Turkey, where the taxation rate as a cost of mobile ownership is over 2.5

Aperto Networks, builder of WiMax-certified base stations and subscriber units, has announced that Arab Telecom is deploying a nationwide broadband wireless network in

Egypt's telecom market is fairly liberalised, declares the Arab Advisors Group. By December 2006, the regulator (NTRA) had issued more than 200 telecom licences, three cellular licences, two payphone licences, two prepaid calling card licences, four VSAT licences and four international GMPCS

Mobile Telecommunications Company, isset to deliver high-speed mobile services such as mobile video, multimedia messaging and web browsing in

Arab Advisors Group has launched a new reportwhich analyses the cellular tariffs for 42 cellular operators in 19 Arab countries.

Emerging Markets Communications (EMC) has recently connected anEMC Quick Deployment kit which is now fully operational in Beirut,

Egypt's Minister of Communications and Information Technology and the Minister of Education will deploy Lucent Technologies' and TeleTech's products and expertise to speed up the delivery of data to their country's schools...

The boom in free satellite TV channels in the Arab region may have stifled the growth of local terrestrial TV.

Following our report that

End-to-end Internet Protocol Television in Morocco is now a reality thanks to a solution commissioned for Maroc Telecom from Huawei Technologies Co...

Nyasha Mutsekwa, a project manager for Oracle, explains how ICT is boosting e-Learning in Africa...

Sony Ericsson has announced a new phone in the Middle East  - the K510i...

GSM penetration in Morocco ...

One of Turkey 's leading

The Arab Advisors Group is now completing its multi-client major survey of individual GSM users in ...

WiMAX is now commercially available in ...

Jordan stands on the cusp of a milestone year for its already successful broadband sector...