Telecoms

Will 5G Kill Me? When Telecom Politics Become a Deadly Sin

5G is undeniably the talk of the moment, much more in the business corridors and governmental strategies, than in the telecom community. This does not come as a surprise since 5G with its promising capabilities paves the way to a myriad of new business use cases and digital transformation opportunities. 5G and the trend in wireless network […]

Everything We Know So Far About the Asus ROG Phone 6

We may only be a few months away from seeing Asus’s 6th iteration of a long history of rolling out high-tech premium smartphones, the Asus ROG Phone 6. Although no one knows for sure, when you get the phone depends largely on where you live. The Asus Rog Phone 6, with ROG standing for ‘Republic […]

Batelco and the Effects of the Bahraini Market Liberalization

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) […]

Iconic Historic Women of the Tech Industry

Women never failed to leave their mark as they created their path in various professional industries, and one industry is no stranger to the success of the historic women of the tech industry. Throughout the years, we have read the books of some of the most intellectual women from Jane Austen and Anna Frank, who […]

Mobily: A Unique Strategy to Get Back into Competition

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 […]

AT&T Taps Company Veteran as Chief Operating Officer

AT&T Inc on Friday named Jeff McElfresh, who headed its largest business unit, as chief operating officer, part of the U.S. carrier’s efforts to refocus on its connectivity business following the merger of its WarnerMedia unit with Discovery Inc. McElfresh has been with the company for more than 20 years and was most recently the […]

Will High Altitude Platforms Become an Integral Part of 6G?

The sixth generation of the in the evolution of wireless evolution promises to be disruptive in terms of the extreme solutions envisioned to meet the projected targets in terms of data rates, latencies, coverage, use cases, etc. The drive to ubiquitous connectivity and ever-increasing capacity requirements have pushed designers to foresee a vertical expansion of […]

Zain Kuwait, and the Urgent Need to “Globalize” the Local Identity

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 […]

5G and Standalone Networks: The Unstoppable Duo Fuelling the 4.0 Paradigm

Standalone networks are key to unlocking new use cases Telcos and consumers are well-versed in the high-capacity, low-latency, high-speed connectivity benefits of 5G for the consumer market. What’s lesser known is that businesses can also unlock greater value with the rise of 5G standalone (SA) technology to access the increased levels of reliability, speed and […]