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

The National Basketball Association (NBA), WNBA (Women's National Basketball Association), and AT&T have announced the launch of the fourth generation of the High-Speed Arena Network (HSAN), the latest evolution of the leagues’ connectivity platform built to quickly and reliably transport live game content, highlights, replays, in-arena... read more

Omantel has launched a strategic Research and Development (R&D) Initiative, marking the establishment of its first centralised and structured R&D function. The initiative places research at the heart of Omantel’s technology development model, creating a clear pathway from promising ideas to market-relevant solutions and commercially viable... read more

Digital Continuity Forum 2026, in motion. On September 23 at Atlantis, The Palm, Dubai, the SAMENA Council brought together regulators, operators, technology providers and industry bodies under the theme “Advancing Resilient Connectivity for the Intelligence-led 6G Era.” The premise was simple: connectivity is no longer enough on its own.... read more

stc Bahrain has selected Telenor Linx as its Firebase Phone Number Verification provider, becoming the first mobile operator in the Middle East to deploy the advanced verification service. The strategic agreement was announced during Capacity Europe 2026, further solidifying stc Bahrain’s leadership in advancing the region’s digital ecosystem... read more

H.E. Eng. Majed Sultan Al Mesmar, Director-General of the Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA), has affirmed that the future of telecommunications will be shaped not by entities that wait for technological developments, but by those that prepare for them, invest in them, and contribute to defining their direction.... read more

MTN Group hosted its annual Ambassadors’ Appreciation Dinner in Sandton, welcoming South Africa’s Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, together with ambassadors, high commissioners, and representatives of development institutions and international organisations from across MTN’s markets. During the evening, MTN... read more