In the mature telecommunications markets of North America and Europe, internet services generally grew out of existing telephone networks. During the 1990s, early adopters around the world can still recall the odd noises of their 56-K dial-up modems. As technologies developed, operators used copper phone, cable television and other fixed...
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Articles & Analysis | Surf’s up: Rapidly expanding broadband usage supports an increasingly dynamic ICT sector from The Report: Oman 2013
A revolution of sorts has been taking place in Oman over the past decade. Around 8% of the country’s population was using the internet in the latter half of the 2000s, at a time when the countries of the OECD had averages hovering between 40% and 60%. By 2011, however, the percentage of internet users had soared, reaching nearly 70%, according to data collected by the...
Articles & Analysis | Keeping ahead in the cloud: Continuing developments in broadband and cyber security are pushing the sector forward from The Report: Oman 2013
In recent years, a confluence of factors like broadband infrastructure, social awareness and mobile penetration have given the ICT sector a major boost in the Middle East. The region as a whole is set to spend over $20bn on information technology in 2012, a 10% increase compared to 2011, according to US-based market research firm Frost &...
Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Salim Sultan Al Ruzaiqi, CEO, Information Technology Authority (ITA) from The Report: Oman 2013
How does the regulatory framework of the information and communications technology (ICT) sector promote competitiveness among players?
Economic update | Jordan: Fourth telecoms provider?
17 Jan 2013
The government is working hard to keep telecoms investment from leaving the country and expand the sector’s role in domestic employment, particularly as the short-term economic outlook looks set to remain strained. As a result the Kingdom is considering the possibility of allowing a new provider to enter the mobile telephony segment.
At the base of the Arabian Peninsula, occupying a landmass slightly larger than Italy, Oman is the largest country in the GCC after Saudi Arabia. In recent years, the non-OPEC oil exporter’s economy has been undergoing a steady transformation, reorienting from oil toward a more diverse set of service and industry-based economic activities. So far, progress has been promising. In 2011 oil and gas accounted for 38.8% GDP.