The Sultanate is prioritising ICT in its economic diversification plans, which would reinvent the country as a centre of technology, education, health care and financial services. The government has set a goal of raising ICT’s contribution to the economy from 1.6% of GDP in 2010 to 6% by 2015. Brunei Darussalam has certain demographic advantages,...
Balancing the marked decrease in fixed-line traffic and continued growth in the mobile communications segment, Morocco’s telecoms players are grappling with a period of intense competition. Since the entry of a third operator, Wana, in 2010, the country’s two established operators, Maroc Telecom and Méditel, have been battling it out on several...
In an effort to increase the speed of mobile internet in the country, Morocco is about to inaugurate 4G accessibility. After some delays, the end of 2013 might be the beginning of a new mobile internet era, with the allocation of at least the first 4G licence, most likely to one of Morocco’s already established operators, Maroc Telecom, Méditel or...
As the government evaluates the initial results of the Maroc Numeric 2013 plan, improved access is pushing the sector to expand. Benefitting from steady economic growth as well as a countrywide strategy to increase information technology (IT) usage, Morocco’s IT sector has seen stable expansion. Governmental policy has been framed under the Maroc...
Following a relatively slow start in launching 3G services, Saudi Arabia in 2011 became the first country in the region to launch long-term evolution (LTE) mobile broadband. All three Saudi mobile operators now offer the service, which has been rolled out to most major cities and is expected to cover almost all of the country within two years....
Infrastructure spending and government investment in health and education are helping to drive growth in the Saudi Arabian information and communications technology (ICT) market, the largest ICT market in the region. Growth is occurring in a number of segments, such as IT services and data centres, as companies and especially government entities...
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