The SAMENA Telecommunications Council and the World WLAN Application Alliance (WAA) are strengthening their institutional cooperation through a series of engagements in Dubai, Muscat, and Shenzhen, bringing global WLAN technology development into closer contact with infrastructure requirements, operator priorities, and investment opportunities... read more

Zain Group and Ooredoo Group have announced the first closing of their regional tower transaction, bringing together the initial tower portfolios within a regional tower platform jointly owned by the two groups, each holding a 50% stake. The first closing combines the tower assets of Zain Kuwait (ITK) and Ooredoo Qatar (Al Abraj) within the... read more

At the Net5.5G Intelligent IP Network Summit during UBBF 2026, John Cai, Vice President of Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line, delivered a keynote highlighting AI as a definitive opportunity in an uncertain future. He noted that the widespread deployment of the NG WAN Solution marks the full-scale commercialization of NG WAN, and that... read more

Cisco has released the Splunk State of Observability 2026: Restoring Predictability in the AI Era report, marking its sixth analysis of the observability industry. Based on a survey of 2,050 ITOps and engineering respondents across 10 countries, the research exposes a significant disconnect: the urgency to deploy AI agents is rapidly outpacing the... read more

Eutelsat has announced an expansion of its capacity agreement with EuroSkyPark GmbH, a German specialist in secure communications for critical infrastructure, to support Amprion, one of Germany’s largest electricity transmission system operators. The expansion extends satellite connectivity from Amprion’s onshore substations across Germany to... read more

The SAMENA Telecommunications Council participated in the 6G MENA Summit 2026, organized by the UAE Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) in Abu Dhabi, contributing an operator perspective on 6G readiness with emphasis on connectivity, intelligence, digital continuity, and trust. Addressing the Summit, Bocar Ba, CEO... read more

From Dubai to Muscat to Shenzhen, SAMENA Telecommunications Council Council and the World WLAN Application Alliance (WAA) are bringing global WLAN developments closer to the infrastructure, investment, and operating realities of SA-ME-NA telecommunications markets. The cooperation gathered momentum at SAMENA Council’s Digital Continuity Forum... read more

Nokia has announced an agreement with SoftBank Group Corp. to conduct a commercial AI-RAN field trial in Japan in 2027. The planned deployment will use Nokia’s anyRAN software on SoftBank’s AITRAS, its core platform for AI-RAN, with NVIDIA Aerial RAN Computer (ARC), in conjunction with the AITRAS Orchestrator, validating AI-RAN technology in a... read more