In many respects, Kuwait has established itself as a telecoms innovator in the region, becoming the first GCC country to license a second mobile operator (in 1999) and thereafter overseeing a new era of competition in the mobile segment. The government continues to play a dominant role in the fixed-line sector and has yet to follow its regional...
Like many around the world, Kuwait’s construction sector endured a challenging period as a result of the global economic recession. However, thanks to the implementation of a national development strategy that aims to overhaul Kuwait’s infrastructure and diversify its hydrocarbons-focused economy, a raft of new developments are taking shape across a...
In October 2012 the Kuwaiti Ministry of Communications (MoC) issued a decree authorising Kuwait’s three mobile providers to roll out their long-anticipated fourth-generation long-term evolution (4G LTE) high-speed data services. The nation’s increasingly data-hungry consumer base will have a much smoother experience streaming video on handsets and...
The twin concepts of independent power producers (IPPs) and independent water and power projects (IWPPs) are well established in the GCC. According to the Electricity and Co-generation Regulatory Authority of Saudi Arabia, some 24,000 MW of the region’s total capacity was derived from IPP/IWPP projects in 2010 – a figure which the authority...
In the wake of new legislation, to what extent have public-private partnership (PPP) projects been able to attract participation from foreign companies?
In what areas will Kuwait need the help of international oil companies (IOCs) to reach the target of 4m barrels per day (bpd) by 2020?
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