Reports and Coverage

If you want to find out how big data is helping to make the world a better place, there’s no better example than the uses being found for it in healthcare.

At the Telecom Review Summit 2020, the Middle East’s largest ICT gathering, Verizon was awarded the ‘Best North American Wholesale Operator’ This year’s Summit was organized both physically and virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, allowing panelists and attendees to participate in the hybrid event from anywhere in the world.

By Charles Yang, President of Huawei Middle East

As more governments and enterprises embrace intelligent infrastructure and go digital, the region’s ICT sector has incredible potential for growth. GITEX presents an ideal opportunity to showcase to the region and to the world this potential—whether in the area of telecommunications, enterprise transformation, cloud and AI applications. Open discussions amongst the ICT ecosystem are all the more important during COVID-19 times. Our dialogue is essential to supporting various industries to achieve recovery, stability, and spur overall socio-economic development.

Western Union, global money transfer firm, has acquired a 15 percent stake in the digital payment unit of stc for $200 million.

Surging demand for bandwidth-intensive communication services during the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the urgent need to bridge digital divides, according to a new OECD report.

At the 14th edition of Telecom Review Summit, the ICT industry’s biggest event in the Middle East, SES won ‘Best Satellite Operator’. This year’s Summit was organized both physically and virtually due to the ongoing pandemic, allowing panelists and attendees to participate in the hybrid event from anywhere in the world.

Saudi Telecom Co. (stc) has announced the resignation of their CEO, Eng. Nasser Al-Nasser on 28 November, due to personal circumstances.

This year saw a record number of nominations for the Telecom Review Excellence Awards. The winners were announced on the evening of November 18th during a gala dinner at the Meydan Hotel, Dubai, UAE.

The radio interfaces that will be used in full-scale commercial deployment of fifth generation mobile communication networks have achieved global validation with the successful evaluation by ITU of three new technologies that conform to the International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020) vision and stringent performance requirement. 

The 14th edition of the Telecom Review Leaders’ Summit, the global ICT industry’s largest event, was held both physically and virtually this year.