Mobile users across Africa and the Middle East will be able to access Wikipedia via their devices without incurring data usage charges, via a new partnership...

Uncertainty pervades all four North African states – and, by extension, their telecom sectors...

A new superfast submarine cable link has been launched between Israel and Italy...

The highly-developed UAE telecom sector was rocked this year by the arrival of LTE, introduced by number one operator Etisalat – but competition is already snapping at its heels...

 A major satellite communications provider in Africa has signed a new partnership with a major teleport services provider to expand operations and service delivery in the African and Middle East markets...

 Iran’s increasing mobile penetration is somewhat tempered by a probable base of inactive subscribers, as well as a looming decline in ARPU levels...

Israel boasts one of the few markets in the Middle East with strong competition across all market sectors...

With Bahrain’s mobile market approaching saturation, the growth in the second quarter of 2011 was unexpected but is unlikely to stop...

The ongoing disagreement over the ownership of Algeria’s market leading operator Djezzy could soon come to a close, following the announcement that the country’s government is to become a majority stakeholder in the firm...

 As a result of heavy investments in the telecom sector since the mid-1990s, Tunisia has one of the most developed telecommunications infrastructures in Northern Africa and sports some of the continent’s highest market penetration rates...

 Residential and business customers in Saudi Arabia will soon have access to fixed broadband services using Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) technology via a nationwide fibre network...

Throughout 2011 the societal and political unrest in many Arab countries, termed the Arab Spring, fundamentally changed the progress and pace at which telecommunications infrastructure has, and will continue to be, developed in these countries...

Subscribers of Egypt’s largest telecom operator will soon enjoy a host of customised services...

A new series of cloud-based solutions for contact centres will allow operators in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to reduce their operational expenditure, as well as granting them a higher degree of control, greater design flexibility and simplified migration from on-premise environments...

The market leading telecommunications provider in Israel has launched a new hybrid cloud-based solution for managed storage and data protection...

One of the last countries in the Middle East to liberalise, the telecom market of the United Arab Emirates has benefited from competition, evident from falling tariff prices...

One of the leading operators in Saudi Arabia is extending its LTE coverage to a further 5 cities across the Kingdom...

Since the onset of competition Oman's telecoms market has developed in leaps and bounds...

Egyptian communities living abroad can now access an international top up service to recharge relatives’ phones back in Egypt...

At the end of March 2010 there were 53.3mn subscribers in the Saudi mobile market, according to market data published by the CITC...

Boosted adoption rates have seen mobile subscriber numbers on the rise in Iraq...

With a spate of recent LTE launches in the Middle East, the region is plunging headlong into the next generation – but what are the factors that have led to near-simultaneous launches across several territories? And what does the advent of LTE mean for consumers and operators in the region? DT editor James Barton spoke to Mohamed Abdulrahim, LTE specialist (Middle East) at Nokia Siemens Networks, to find out...

The Egyptian market-leading operator is implementing a solution to improve the reliability and security of its network...

An Iraqi operator has secured financing for a network upgrade, allowing it to improve the quality of services it provides to customers across Iraq as well as to accommodate ongoing growth in subscriber numbers to its network...

Customers of Qtel Group companies in six different markets can now use the pioneering Gmail SMS Chat service...

On Tuesday, United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) called on Huawei Technologies, a Chinese telecommunications company, to immediately end its business in Iran...

obile payment services based on NFC (Near Field Communication) technology will soon be offered by UAE-based operator Etisalat, in partnership with Mastercard Worldwide and Network International...

Saudi Arabian subscribers will soon be able to benefit from cloud security services as a result of a new partnership...

Windows Phone devices will soon be launching across the Middle East and Africa following the announcement of a partnership between Microsoft Middle East & Africa and wireless distributor Brightpoint...

As global demand for Internet on-the-move services grows dramatically, together with the adoption of the latest smartphones and tablet devices, the need for operators to extend their wireless network coverage and capacity is also growing exponentially to cope with this demand...

Kuwaiti internet service provider Zajil will soon offer its customers cloud-delivered web security as value-added service...

With LTE launches in Saudi Arabia and the UAE underway by operators such as Mobily, Etisalat and STC, others – including Qatari QTel and UAE-based Du – are now joining the fray...

The Egyptian market leader Mobinil is replacing a number of disparate third-party systems for tracking infrastructure changes with one unified solution...