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 Numeric 2013 strategy, which has had an immense...
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Chapter | Telecoms & IT from The Report: Morocco 2013
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Ghassan Al Shibl, CEO, Advanced Electronics Company from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
What more needs to be done to encourage greater depth within the defence, telecoms and manufacturing sectors? How can knowledge transfer be promoted within local industries?
Articles & Analysis | Long-term revolution?: Although take-up of 4G services has so far been slow, growth may come as speed rises from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
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....
Articles & Analysis | Increasing opportunities: Public spending, support for SMEs and e-government services drive growth in the sector from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
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...
Articles & Analysis | Competition calling: Introduction of new offerings expected to improve customer services and push down prices from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
As the largest telecommunications market in the Gulf region, Saudi Arabia also stands out as one of the region’s most competitive markets. Telecoms operators in the Kingdom were the first in the Middle East to launch latest-generation mobile broadband networks. Mobile subscription penetration rates are among the highest in the world, standing at...
Articles & Analysis | Bringing it home: With a number of providers set to introduce fibre-optic infrastructure, internet speeds should rise dramatically from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2013
A number of firms are investing in bringing fibre-optic cables all the way to people’s homes – known as fibre-to-the-home (FTTH). An alternative to FTTH is fibre-to-the-building (FTTB), which brings fibre-optic cable to the consumer’s building, but then completes the final distance to individual rooms via copper wire. Although the FTTH/B segment...