Before the region talks about deploying 6G, it has to answer a harder question: what will 6G-era infrastructure actually stand on? That is the premise of SAMENA Council's Digital Continuity Forum 2026, taking place in 5 days at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, under the patronage of Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority .... read more

Nokia has announced growing global momentum for AI-RAN, with operators across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Middle East advancing the technology from early evaluation to lab and live field trials, accelerating the evolution toward AI-native 6G networks. Expanding engagement with A1 Group, Chunghwa Telecom, du, e&, Mobily, stc, TPG... read more

Eutelsat and A1 Group, one of Central and Eastern Europe's leading communications providers, have renewed a multi-year, multi-transponder agreement, reaffirming A1's long-standing commitment to Eutelsat's flagship 16° East video neighbourhood. The renewed capacity supports A1 Group's delivery of the technical DTH television platform for A1... read more

MTN Group, the University of Johannesburg (UJ), and The African Editors Forum (TAEF) have welcomed the first cohort of media practitioners to the MTN Pan-African Media Innovation Programme, marking the start of a continental effort to strengthen journalism and build media institutions in a digital world. The inaugural cohort of the six-week course... read more

Nokia has announced that ESpanix, Spain's largest internet exchange point, has selected and deployed Nokia Deepfield Defender to protect its exchange platform and connected networks against distributed denial-of-service attacks. The deployment enables ESpanix to offer DDoS protection as a new, optional value-added service to the more than 200... read more

Cisco has announced new Splunk innovations designed to help enterprises safely and cost-efficiently scale AI wherever their data already lives, including an expanded partnership with NVIDIA to bring Splunk AI to on-premises customers. For customers who cannot move sensitive data to the cloud, Cisco and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to... read more

Eutelsat has selected Arianespace to conduct two dedicated launches for its OneWeb Low Earth Orbit constellation, scheduled for 2027 and 2028 aboard Ariane 64 rockets — the most powerful version of Ariane 6 — from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The two missions support Eutelsat's plan to progressively renew the OneWeb constellation and... read more

Nokia has been selected by Planters Broadband Coopertive to build an AI-ready fiber network delivering fast, secure, and reliable connectivity to rural southeast Georgia — reinforcing Nokia's role as a trusted partner for U.S. regional broadband providers. The BEAD-funded deployment will provide Planters with the ability to offer multi-gigabit... read more