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UAE telecom subscribers reaches 22.11 million by end of May 2020: Official data
The number of UAE subscribers to telecommunications services hit 22.11 million by the end of May 2020, according to official data released by the ... Telecoms -
US customers with T-Mobile, Verizon experience nationwide phone calling outage
Customers with wireless carriers T-Mobile, Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T are currently experiencing phone calling outage in several parts of the United ... World News -
Virgin Media, O2 agree on $38 billion merger, create UK’s biggest telecoms company
Telefonica SA and Liberty Global Plc have agreed to create the UK’s largest phone and internet operator, a deal that threatens its rivals and marks ... Economy -
Saudi Telecom will buy majority stake in Vodafone Egypt for $2.39 billion
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) announced that it would purchase a 55 percent controlling stake in Vodafone Egypt for $2.39 billion on Wednesday. The deal ... Technology -
India’s Supreme Court says Kashmir internet shutdown unconstitutional
India’s Supreme Court said on Friday that shutting down the internet in the disputed region of Kashmir was unconstitutional in a rebuke for ... World News -
France’s Orange moves closer to IPO of MidEast, Africa operations
France’s biggest telecoms group Orange is bringing its operations in the Middle East and Africa into a single entity, paving the way for a ... Financial Markets -
UAE telecom du, India’s Wipro tie up to address IoT security challenges
UAE based telecom operator du and Indian software firm Wipro Ltd have partnered to build an identity an access management platform for ... Business -
Egypt to start work on $2.4-bln telecom network for new capital city
Egypt’s communications ministry will begin work on a 40 billion Egyptian pound ($2.44 billion) telecommunications network in the first phase of ... Technology -
Maroc Telecom signs $1 billion investment deal with Moroccan government
Maroc Telecom, Morocco's largest telecoms operator, said on Monday it had signed a deal worth 10 billion dirhams ($1 billion) with the Moroccan ... Economy -
New internet calling and messaging app with translation launches in UAE
On Wednesday a new messaging app, YZER, launched at an event held at the Jumeriah al-Naseem Hotel in Dubai, UAE. YZER is aimed at providing individual ... Economy -
Internet in Ethiopia hit by week-old cuts
Most of Ethiopia was without internet access on Tuesday on the eighth consecutive day of an unexplained break.An AFP investigation found that with the ... Digital -
Morocco favors local institutional investors in Maroc Telecom stake sale
The Moroccan government, which plans to sell an 8 percent stake in Maroc Telecom, will sell 6 percent of that this month as a block order to local ... Technology -
British telecoms giant EE says to launch 5G without Huawei
Telecoms giant EE will this month become the first operator in Britain to launch a 5G network but will do so without Huawei technology as originally ... Economy -
Saudi Telecom issues $1.25 billion debut sukuk
State-run Saudi Telecom has issued $1.25 billion in international sukuk, or Islamic bonds, the company said on Sunday. The 10-year bonds ... Technology -
China’s Huawei sues US over federal ban on using its products
Huawei said Thursday it was suing the United States for barring government agencies from buying the Chinese telecom giant’s products, opening a ... Technology -
Anti-graft body exposes Yemen’s telecom firms’ spending on igniting war
A whopping 1.5 billion riyals is the average spend by Yemeni telecommunications companies such as Sabafon, Yemen Mobile and MTN in less ... Gulf -
VIDEO: Internet Society CEO says network resilience can help tackle Dark Web
On September 1, 2018, Andrew Sullivan was appointed as the new President and Chief Executive Officer of Internet Society, the US-based global ... Features -
Parts of troubled Libya get 4G telecoms service
Libya’s state-owned mobile phone operator al-Madar launched the first 4G services in the North African country, a rare investment in a country ... Technology -
The madness of telecommunications revolution
Making calls via the internet at the beginning of the internet era required an office and a desktop. One would make the call and then wait while ... Middle East -
Egypt might have its own Facebook very soon
Egypt has a very high number of users on Facebook that’s estimated at 33 million accounts. It’s a high number particularly when compared ... Digital -
Egyptian professor claims he is the mastermind behind WiFi development
Dr. Hatem Zaghloul is well known among major global companies in the field of telecommunications and technology. Zaghloul is said to have contribute ... Variety -
Egyptian man blackmails flight attendant with private pictures to get Dubai job
A 30-year-old clerk stood trial in a Dubai court for threatening an airhostess of sending private photos of her to her boss and ex-husband if she does ... Variety -
UAE telco du Q4 net profit rises 14.9 pct
Du, the United Arab Emirates’ No.2 telecom operator, reported a 14.9 percent rise in fourth-quarter net profit on Thursday, boosted by a rise in ... Technology -
Palestinians to get 3G in West Bank, after Israel lifts ban
Palestinians in the West Bank are finally getting high-speed mobile data services, after a years-long Israeli ban that cost their fragile economy ... Business -
Telecom Egypt says internet services to be restored in days
Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s largest internet provider, said on Tuesday it expected its internet services to be restored “gradually” after ... Financial Markets -
Social media access restricted on Iran mobiles: agencies
Access to the popular photo sharing and messaging apps Instagram and Telegram was restricted on mobile phones, Iranian media reported on Sunday, after ... Middle East -
Orange boss, Bernard Tapie ordered to stand trial in France
French businessman Bernard Tapie and Stephane Richard, the head of telecoms company Orange, are being ordered to stand trial over a disputed financial ... Economy -
Saudi Postal plans new distribution centers with view to privatization
The head of Saudi Arabia’s government-owned postal service said on Wednesday the institution was setting up new distribution centers as part of ... Economy -
Saudi Arabia to lift ban on VOIP in one week
Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Abdullah al-Sawaha, announced on Wednesday that the ban on Voice over Internet ... Technology -
High-speed 4G mobile internet to come into effect in Egypt this month
Egypt’s telecoms operators will begin offering high-speed 4G mobile broadband services in September, the telecoms minister said on Monday. The ... Technology