Posts Tagged ‘MENA’

Helios makes pair of data centre investments in Kenya, Morocco; brings on Guy Willner

November 16, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Helios Investment Partners entered into agreements to buy majority stakes in two African data centre...

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Quantum Switch Tamasuk to deliver first Saudi data centre this year, secures funding; Google the tenant?

October 13, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST), which signed an agreement to develop and operate data centres in Saudi...

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Ooredoo begins three more Oman data centres; 2Africa landings

August 17, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Qatar-based telco Ooredoo broke ground on three new data centres in Oman. ...

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Alibaba Cloud JV launches services, data centres in Saudi Arabia

June 22, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Some more details emerged about the recent launch of a JV between Alibaba Cloud and STC (Saudi Telec...

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Joint venture and merger creating Khazna Data Centers in UAE completed

June 15, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

UAE telco e& (formerly Etisalat) and G42 completed the previously dsiclosed merger of their data...

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AqabaIX being upgraded as more subsea cables come to Jordan

June 6, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Jordan-based AqabaIX will be upgraded to the DE-CIX Apollon interconnection infrastructure. ...

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Khazna Data Centers breaks ground on new Abu Dhabi data centre

April 21, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Khazna Data Centers broke ground on its second data centre in Masdar, close to Abu Dhabi Internation...

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Zain to build new Saudi Arabia-France subsea cable

April 20, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Zain Global Connect (ZGC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Kuwait-based telco Zain Group, will build th...

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GCX opens Oman PoP with Equinix

April 11, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Connectivity provider Global Cloud Xchange (GCX) deployed a PoP in Equinix’s MSC1 data centre in M...

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New venture targets 300MW in Saudi Arabia capacity in five years

March 25, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

Quantum Switch Tamasuk (QST) signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Communications an...

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Equinix expands to new market in Oman; subsea cable angle

March 14, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

There was an interesting addition to Equinix’s EMEA expansions outlined in its 4Q21 results presen...

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New Medusa subsea cable to boost capacity, diversity in Mediterranean

March 8, 2022
Sacha Kavanagh

AFR-IX Telecom and Telecom Egypt inked a landing party agreement for the Medusa subsea cable system....

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