IT spending in Mena to hit $243 billion
Countries in the Mena region will spend $243 billion – 5.6 per cent of the global IT spending – by...
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Information technology spending in Saudi Arabia is increasing at the fastest rate
Information technology (IT) spending in Saudi Arabia is increasing at the fastest rate across all countries in Central Europe, the...
Dubai announces $1.22 billion investment in internet, media zones
Dubai is to invest AED4.5 billion ($1.22 billion) over five years in its internet and media free zones, which will...
Egypt plans five tech parks worth $2.8 billion
Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) plans to tender five projects to construct technology parks across the country...
Hamad International Airport deploys 62 eGates
The Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar, is now the airport with one of the largest numbers of automated border...
Saudi e-commerce to hit $13 billion in 2015
Saudi e-commerce market will reach $13.3 billion in 2015, according to research published by a Dubai-based web design and development...
Vodafone Egypt to invest $1.3 billion over three years
Vodafone Egypt will invest around 9.5 billion Egyptian pounds ($1.3 billion) over the next three years to improve its network,...
Bahrain moves to boost digital economy
Efforts to strengthen Bahrain’s digital economy will begin in earnest next year when the kingdom launches a major upgrade of...
Lebanon has four million phone subscriptions
Figures released by the state-owned mobile phone networks Alfa and Touch show that there were four million mobile phone subscriptions...
Saudi Zain signs $1.2 billion supply deals to upgrade network
Zain Saudi, Saudi Arabia's third biggest telecoms operator, said it has signed infrastructure supply contracts worth SR4.5 billion ($1.2 billion)...
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