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Interviews & Viewpoints | Khalid Balkheyour, President and CEO, Arabsat: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2016
Interviews & Viewpoints | Ahmed Farroukh, CEO, Mobily: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2016
How can mobile operators reduce the burden on the mobile wireless broadband networks created by high data consumers?
Articles & Analysis | Investments in new technology drive ICT sector expansion in Saudi Arabia from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2016
Telecommunications companies in Saudi Arabia are continuing to invest in new generations of technology that will enhance the user experience for mobile broadband customers. Both Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) and Zain have partnered with China’s Huawei to introduce systems that have produced network throughput speeds of 1 Gbps. As 4G...
Saudi Arabia is the biggest ICT market in the Middle East, with annual sector spending expected to reach about SR140bn ($37.3bn) by 2017. At a time of shrinking oil revenues, the government has identified ICT as a key driver of smart, cost-effective solutions for government and commerce alike, and as a major pillar of the Kingdom’s long-term development strategy, Vision 2030. However, there...
2016 witnessed the launch of the Kingdom’s historic Vision 2030 and the accompanying National Transformation Programme, both of which call for a major overhaul of the state’s economic apparatus and envision a more open market framework and more dynamic, private sector-led growth moving ahead.
Articles & Analysis | Dubai playing major role in UAE space agency's planned probe to Mars from The Report: Dubai 2016
In July 2014 the UAE’s leaders announced the launch of a full-fledged space exploration programme. The establishment of the UAE Space Agency (UAESA) followed more than a decade of development activities in aerospace engineering and satellite communications, and is at the centre of a long-term plan to build Emirati capabilities “in the fields...