• SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing

    3rd July, 2026

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Etihad Salam Telecom Company (Salam) has opened its second Research and Technical Innovation Center at the Girls' Technical College in Al-Ahsa, marking a strategic expansion of its partnership with the Technical and Vocational Training Corporation and its commitment to empowering Saudi youth in technical and digital fields. The inauguration was... read more

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Nokia has been selected by Orange Belgium as the sole supplier for a major transformation of the operator's transport infrastructure, unifying fixed and mobile networks into a single, converged optical transport network across Belgium. The multi-year project will modernize Orange Belgium's infrastructure to create a more resilient, secure, and... read more

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Huawei OceanStor A800 storage has claimed the top spot on the latest IO500 rankings, with the Peng Cheng Cloud Brain III system achieving a score of 603,334.58 — 2.8 times higher than the previous record — earning the number one position on both the Research List and the Full List. The IO500 is the benchmarking standard for measuring storage... read more

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The OpenAN project has been officially released, led by Huawei and industry partners, with the inaugural meeting of its eight founding members held to establish governance systems, operation models, code contribution rules, and implementation roadmaps for the open-source community. The project addresses prominent challenges facing global... read more

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Zain Group has been awarded a 25-year license to operate a mobile telecommunications network in the Syrian Arab Republic, marking the company's entry as the second operator into one of the Levant's most promising markets. The license was secured through a competitive tender process conducted by Syria's Ministry of Communications and Information... read more

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New research from Cisco, conducted in partnership with Foundry and based on a survey of 200 IT leaders in the UAE and 3,472 globally, reveals that UAE organizations have approximately three years before AI-driven network traffic increases significantly, network capacity reaches its limit, and attack surfaces expand beyond what current defenses can... read more

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stc Bahrain has been awarded the Gold Prize at the International CSR Excellence Awards 2026, recognizing its commitment to empowering people, fostering innovation, and creating sustainable opportunities that support economic and social development in the Kingdom. The award reflects stc Bahrain's holistic approach to corporate responsibility across... read more

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Zain Group and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency in Kuwait, marked World Refugee Day with an event celebrating a decade of partnership dedicated to supporting forcibly displaced communities around the world, held under the patronage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Over the past ten years, Zain's contributions to UNHCR's campaigns have helped... read more

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Leaders' Summit 2024 (Highlights)
Evolving toward Integration, Intelligence & Sustainability in Infrastructure
ITU GSR-24 Interview: Bocar A. Ba, CEO, SAMENA Telecommunications Council
How can digital technologies rescue the SDGs? - Reflection by Commissioner Mr. Bocar Ba
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