Data-driven applications and use cases have literally exploded in numbers in the last decade. Business and data analytics, artificial intelligence, internet of things, machine-to-machine applications, augmented and virtual reality, medical diagnostics, are just some examples among many more. This type of services has been increasingly relying on the availability of proper computational resources and software […]
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The futuristic league of 5G, Blockchain, and IoT will birth a balanced ecosystem, colliding telcos capabilities, IoT applications, and a cryptographic ledger to optimize business and daily functions. The mobile wireless network industry witnessed heavy alternations and developments throughout the years. Developments that brought it to the advanced level it is in right now. Communication […]
The word “metaverse” is the most popular in the worldwide tech market today. Big tech companies worldwide are racing for a piece of the virtual pie that analysts expect will be worth trillions. Companies Developing the Metaverse are concentrating on creating new technologies and features that will allow users to communicate with one another more […]
Omantel (formerly known as General Telecommunications Organization) is the first telecom company in Oman founded in the 1990s and offering a wide range of services including fixed telephony, fixed and mobile broadband, and mobile voice and data services. The last few years were not all rosy for the leading Omani operators. One of the first […]
U.S. investment firm Warburg Pincus has appointed an executive of Germany’s SAP as a senior adviser to its technology group as it turns to industry leaders to source new investments and boost the value of existing portfolio companies. Irfan Khan, who is in charge of SAP’s data management and analytics portfolio as president of its […]
The Bahrain Telecommunications Company was established in 1981 as the sole communications service provider in the country. The operator is mostly owned (directly or indirectly) by the Bahraini government with a total of 77 percent (more than 50 percent shared between Mumtalakat holding company and the social insurance organization). However, the telecommunications regulatory authority (TRA) […]
The Saudi telecom market is highly competitive with the existence of three major mobile network operators, STC, Mobily, and Zain KSA and several mobile virtual network operators (MVNO) licensed by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), the main communications regulatory authority in the KSA. Although each with a different strategy, they have been all […]
The internet of things (IoT) is certainly not a new concept in the world of technology and engineering. With the improvement in connectivity, new use cases notably IoT healthcare applications have emerged. The idea of connected physical devices or “things” has existed for a long time with software-enabled sensing devices communicating data among others or […]
Interruptions are the biggest concern around hybrid for 67 per cent of virtual participants Large scale in-person events are back with a bang, with hundreds of thousands of people gathering in-person for conferences, summits and tradeshows across the world. But is ‘in-person’ always necessary? Here, Douglas Mulvihill, UK & Ireland marketing manager at cloud phone […]
Zain is undoubtedly one of the pillars of the telecom sector in the Middle East and North Africa. The story started in 1983 with the establishment of the Mobile Telecommunications Company (MTC), in a time where digital mobile communications was still being developed with mostly predominant fixed telephony. MTC soon became among the first providers […]