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Orange initiates in-person listening to customers in 17 MEA countries

Automation/AI
The operator despatched 10,000 employees from all functions to meet 15,000 customers in 120 cities and villages, on the same day, to gain a better understanding of what they want
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Starlink stalls in South Africa despite progress elsewhere on the continent

Middle East & Africa
Regulations in Elon Musk's native country insist overseas firms must have 30% South African ownership, which the US-based billionaire says are "a barrier"
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Raxio secures $100m to expand African data centres

Cloud/NFV
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) loan will help to operator expand its footprint in sub-Saharan Africa
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MTN Group, Airtel Africa to share networks in Uganda and Nigeria

Access
This could be just the first such agreement between the two and could be extended to the RAN and fibre, but the partnership does not exclude deals with other parties
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e& UAE partners Motorola Mobility to provide enterprise solutions like MDM

5G & Beyond
The operator will used Motorola’s mobile device management for businesses large and small
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Entries for CTO of the Year Awards 2025 are now OPEN

CTO of the year
If you are responsible for running telecoms infrastructure in Europe, the Middle East or Africa, this could be your year.
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Zain Group entices IoT OEMs with Global M2M offering

5G & Beyond
The telco, operating in eight markets, wants to be the connectivity partner of choice for device OEMs looking to crack the Middle East
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Google shrugs off antitrust worries with $32bn Wiz acquisition

BSS/OSS/CX
The proposed deal is Google’s largest ever and eclipses the $23bn offer it made for the cybersecurity company under a year ago
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Microsoft invests extra €254m in South African cloud infrastructure

Automation/AI
The investment comes at a time when the market is awash with speculation on just how many billions Microsoft may have wound back on global data centre commitments
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Orange Egypt signs €284m wholesale fibre deals with Telecom Egypt

5G & Beyond
The deal will help Orange Egypt roll out 5G in the country and the operator believes the commercial terms were improved in the process
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Middle East smartphone sales surpass global markets, growing at 14%

Access
Canalys reports that the region, excluding Turkey, surged in 2024, with sales of 48.4 million handsets, although growth slowed in Q4
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Batelco launches fixed-mobile One Plan bundle

5G & Beyond
Beyon’s rebranding of Batelco to diversify into offers like finance now sees a converged fixed mobile bundle hit the market
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Equinix commits to $1bn data centre in Saudi Arabia 

Access
The kingdom’s Leap 2025 tech show has already seen $14.9bn of commitments in AI and cloud infrastructure
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Tunisia to launch 5G services by mid-February

5G & Beyond
Tunisie Télécom, Ooredoo Tunisie and Orange Tunisie have fulfilled all the technical and administrative requirements and will start marketing around Valentine’s day
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Nigerian operators get half their wish with 50% tariffs rise

Financial/Regulation
Earlier this month some operators had asked the regulator for permission to raise prices by up to 100% after they had been held at the same level for 11 years
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