Middle East & Africa

Telco & CSP

Zain Group introduces revolutionary HR policy embracing working mothers

Network Services

Etisalat Digital partners with FEWA on hosted business messaging platform

Mobile

TV5MONDE chooses Orange Media Delivery Boost to optimise the end-user mobile content experience for customers in Africa

Network Services

Ooredoo Announces Strategic Partnership with Uber

Security

Ooredoo Myanmar picks Nokia's Managed Security Services to protect its network against cyber threats

via Flickr © Janitors (CC BY 2.0)

Security

Huawei's Hu hoisted with his own petard

Devices

Middle East, Africa, & Turkey wearable devices market enjoys strong growth

Cellular IoT

Zain Kuwait enters pioneering agreement with Zain Drone for tower inspection and maintenance services

Business Models

Etisalat first telco to provide Home Insurance solution

Optical

ECI debuts 1.2T dual channel blade for new age of adaptive optical networking

Research and Trials

North Africa mobile market sees strong growth as demand for feature phones surges

Data Centres

China Mobile International joins Etisalat’s SmartHub to expand its ME services

Network Services

MTN launches world first music streaming service, MusicTime

5G

Ooredoo’s 5G Network Tests are in full swing In The Desert

4G LTE

MTC and Huawei jointly deploy the first LTE 4T6S solution in Africa

HP

HP commits to educate 100,000 across africa in the next three years, opens HP LIFE Center for entrepreneurship in South Africa

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Mobile

Orange looks to increase its banking revenues as part of its DSP strategy

Policy & Regulation

GSMA highlights policy reforms to lift Nigeria’s economy

IoT Services & Applications

MTN Group joins IoT World Alliance

4G LTE

MTN becomes the first mobile network to cover 90% of South Africa with high speed LTE coverage

Telco & CSP

Wataniya Mobile becomes Ooredoo Palestine

via Flickr © Peter Krantz (CC BY 2.0)

5G

China’s unstoppable progress to 5G dominance

Transformation

Telcos are the backbone of the digital transformation dictating the evolution path of the ICT transformation journey

Devices

Africa's mobile phone shipments flatline as major markets experience differing fortunes