Smart Africa and Orange sign three-year pact to foster tech skills and entrepreneurship
Smart Africa and Orange Middle East and Africa have forged a partnership to drive digital transformation in Africa The Smart Africa alliance and Orange Middle East and Africa have announced a three-year agreement that aims to boost the digitalisation of the African continent. The deal, ...
October 22
The Tech Capital partners with Touchdown Middle East on region-wide data centre conference
Bahrain/London, UK, September 06, 2023 - The Tech Capital, a renowned digital media platform, has announced its collaboration with Touchdown Middle East, the GCC’s first region-wide data centre conference taking place on 21st-22nd November 2023 in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The conference is being established by the Gulf Data Centre Association (GDCA) in partnership wit...
September 06
MENA telcos to unite over launch of Gulf’s 30,000 tower assets group
Gulf telecommunication giants are mulling the union of digital infrastructure portfolios to create a giant towerco across the Middle East. Discussions between Ooredoo Q.P.S.C. (ORDS:UH:Abu Dhabi), Mobile Telecommunications Company K.S.C.P. (Zain Group) and UAE-based TASC Towers Holding are ongoing and could eventually combine approximately 30,000 telecommunication tower ass...
July 28
8,700km Portugal-Egypt subsea cable deployment works kick-off
The Medusa Submarine Cable System, which will connect several ports across South Europe and North Africa, has begun construction works. When completed, the 8,700 kilometres route will link Morocco, Portugal, Spain, France, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Egypt. The cable is being developed by Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN), Elettra Tlc, Medusa and Orange. ...
July 04
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