Reports and Coverage

UAE is ranked number one for the highest Fiber to the Home (FTTH) penetration among all its global counterparts for a third year in a row, according to the leading industry body FTTH Council

The Middle East Network Operators Group (MENOG) Meeting & Peering Forum will be held on 3 and 4 April 2018 in Beirut - Lebanon, hosted by OGERO, ISOC Lebanon chapter and the American university of Beirut (AUB).

By Clery Tonneau, head of Products Department and head of Mobile Financial Services, Sofrecom

For some years, telecom and bank regulators have demanded a 100% reliable verification of customers’ identity, also known as KYC (know your customer), in order to prevent identity theft fraud, money laundering and terrorist financing. Unfortunately, traditional KYC methods are both cumbersome and error-prone.

ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the Mobile Internet, today hosted 5G Summit 2019 to showcase its commitment to embracing 5G Era, at Mobile World Congress 2019 in Barcelona.

Cisco’s Visual Networking Index (VNI) Forecast predicts 4.8 billion Internet users to be connected globally by 2022, out of which 549 million will be living in the Middle East and Africa.

Mondia, a leading private digital experiences company, signed a strategic agreement with Apigate, the next generation Application Programming Interface (API) platform. This new bilateral partnership will serve as a bridge for Mondia to extend its Direct Carrier Billing (DCB) and Over-The-Top (OTT) services to the Asia Pacific.  Similarly, Mondia will enable Apigate to extend its services to Europe, Middle East and Africa.

By Charles Yang, president of Huawei Middle East

As Huawei reflects on 2018, the challenges around us today and our goals for 2019, we see one thread linking the past, present and future: our unshakeable commitment to bringing digital to every home, person and organization, for a fully-connected and intelligent world. We are global, regional and local pioneers in transformative ICT, connecting the world on a historically unprecedented scale.

Nexign, a leading Business Support System (BSS) and Internet of Things (IoT) platform provider, today announced new capabilities to its product portfolio that will empower communications service providers (CSPs) to build digital partnerships and collaborate more efficiently, with other industry players, on a global level.

Ja-Square, a Lebanese-based company that specializes in producing smart technological solutions and IoT services has been showcasing its latest innovations at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

By Claire Khoury, Marketing & Communication Director of Sofrecom Group

Digital technology has an impact on the governance of organizations. It profoundly changes the way management takes place in the private sector as well as the governance of public organizations and the training of State civil servants. It implies adopting a continuous improvement approach. It is an opportunity to usher in simplicity and efficiency, and to improve the quality of services provided to users.