Dubai offers a healthy environment for ICT operators, with its strong, high-tech and high-coverage network combining well with a tech-savvy and internationally connected population. At the same time, the government of Dubai – and that of the UAE – has repeatedly demonstrated its commitment to become a world leader in terms of IT. Initiatives...
With Dubai long known as a centre for commerce, finance and entrepreneurial can-do, it is not surprising that the emirate is also now working to make itself one of the world’s leading Smart Cities. Indeed, testing new technologies and putting new concepts into practice are very much part of Dubai’s DNA. For some time, the emirate has been...
The main backers of the UAE’s two telecoms operators are public entities, with the federal government being the main public shareholder of the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) and owning a large stake in its rival operator, the Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du), alongside the emirate-level governments of Abu...
Like the UAE as a whole, Dubai has one of the most advanced telecoms and IT markets in the Middle East, boasting high levels of smartphone and internet penetration, fast mobile internet speeds and a rapidly growing start-up scene. While prices in the sector – and the fixed-line market in particular – are relatively high, both the fixed-line...
With 4G connections now well established throughout much of the world, international telecoms players are now working towards the launch of 5G, the next generation of mobile data networks. Notable progress towards this was made in March 2017, when the Third Generation Partnership Project – a group of seven telecoms development organisations...
A leading centre for entrepreneurship in the MENA region, the UAE counted 940 start-ups as of late August 2017, according to Magnitt, a Middle Eastern start-up support service provider and directory. The largest subsegment of this was e-commerce, with 135 listed start-ups. This figure is by far the highest of any country in the Middle East and...
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