Middle East & Africa

Green

GSMA Signs £38 Million Funding Partnership with the Department of International Development

Mobile

Youth Population to Drive Strong Subscriber Growth Across Sub-Saharan Africa, Finds New GSMA Study

Optical

BOnline harnesses ADVA FSP 3000 for scalable nationwide network

Telco & CSP

Zain Group launches ‘WE ABLE’ initiative, aiming to be Disability Inclusive by 2022

IoT

New technology trialled to better monitor human-gorilla conflict in Uganda

Mobile

Orange and KaiOS Technologies reinforce their partnership to close Africa’s digital divide

5G

STC Group launches 5G commercial services in Saudi Arabia

Transformation

Telecom Egypt and Juniper Networks partner to enable digital transformation for Egypt's enterprises

SD-WAN

A regional first: GBI pioneers multi-national SD-WAN in Middle East and Africa with Nuage Networks

Telecoms Vendors & OEMs

Nokia and UNICEF launch partnership to boost digital literacy in primary schools in Kenya

Devices

Economic Challenges Cause Decline in Africa's Smartphone Market

Mobile

EMEA smartphone market stable in Q1 but Middle East slump pulls down value

AI & ML

MTN Group launches Africa’s first artificial intelligence service for mobile money

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Network Slicing

Slicing the fibre: fixed network slicing opens up access

Network Slicing

Ogero trials Nokia fixed access network slicing virtualization solution to enhance its wholesale capabilities

Green

Zain publishes its eighth annual sustainability report, titled ‘Time to Act’

4G LTE

Vodafone Egypt deploys Nokia Subscriber Data Management over telco cloud for faster rollout of LTE services

5G

Zain first operator to offer 5G technology in Kuwait and GCC

Telco & CSP

Telkom doubles mobile subscribers, delivers solid group performance

Mobile

Zain Iraq becomes first operator in the Middle East to introduce purchase solution via Facebook

Mobile

GCC mobile phone market enjoys encouraging start to 2019

FTTx

Soweto first South African township to get fibre to the home

5G

Nokia to help Ooredoo Qatar take 5G lead with its cloud native core network

5G

Zain Saudi Arabia places first 5G call