AT&T and Amdocs are expanding their longstanding relationship through a multi-year agreement to modernize AT&T’s business and customer operations using AI. The initiative pairs Amdocs aOS, its agentic operating system for telecommunications, with AT&T’s AI-enabled delivery framework, aiming to simplify operations, improve efficiency, deliver... read more

Nokia has published its Global Network Traffic Report, forecasting that AI will drive nearly half of global network traffic by 2035. The findings show networks will increasingly need to serve connected machines as well as people, with AI driving greater uplink demand, faster response times, and more processing closer to users and devices. By 2035,... read more

ZETRIX AI Berhad, in collaboration with the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), has launched a Know Your Agent (KYA) service aimed at bringing greater trust, transparency, and accountability to the rapidly expanding world of AI agents. The service was announced simultaneously at the World Internet Conference in... read more

stc Group, the region’s leading digital enabler, has announced its continued partnership with Riyadh Season as an Official Premium Partner for the 2026-27 edition, extending its longstanding association with one of Saudi Arabia’s major annual events that bring people together from across the country and around the world. Over the years, stc... read more

stc Bahrain has been awarded the “Best Nationalisation Strategy” award at the Future Workplace Awards, held during the annual HR Summit & Expo (HRSE). The accolade honours stc Bahrain’s human capital strategy, aligned with the Kingdom’s Economic Vision 2030, which positions workforce localisation as a business driver accelerating the... read more

NVIDIA and Cisco have announced plans for the Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new high-density 400Gb/s-per-lane optical module built to equip the hardware ecosystem for the next generation of AI factories using pluggable transceivers. As AI models grow and inference demand expands, AI factories must connect more computing systems... read more

Oman continues to strengthen its position as a global connectivity hub with Omantel as the main driver, supported by sustained investment in international subsea and terrestrial networks, data centres, and strategic partnerships. This integrated ecosystem has attracted global hyperscalers, technology companies, and content providers to host their... read more

The SAMENA Telecommunications Council, represented by Bocar Ba, CEO, was pleased to attend Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority ICT Development Forum 2026, held in Dubai on November 4, under the theme *“The Future of Telecommunications in the Agentic AI Era: Toward Autonomous Services and Networks.”* The Forum... read more