Zain Group

Zain Group’s ICT enterprise arm ZainTech penned a strategic agreement with UAE operator du to deliver an enterprise offering which spans IoT, cloud services and drone technologies to businesses in the country.

Zain Group’s ICT enterprise unit ZainTech struck a deal to acquire UAE-based cloud and data analytics company Adfolks for an undisclosed sum, part of a strategy shift towards increasing its digital presence.

Zain Group executives emphasised resilience and careful planning would be key to maintaining growth registered over the opening nine months, noting its markets faced the same socioeconomic challenges affecting many major operators.

Zain Group CTO Nawaf Al-Gharabally outlined plans to boost 5G across its markets to deliver a range of new digital use cases, after inking an agreement with Huawei to accelerate so-called 5. 5G technology.

Zain Group agreed a distribution deal with HTC Vive to bring the device maker’s VR portfolio to the Middle East region, as part of a wider play around enabling access to the metaverse.

Zain Group began due diligence on a $1. 3 billion offer for its mobile and ICT managed services businesses in Sudan made by a subsidiary of local conglomerate Dal Group.

Five of the largest operators in the Middle East pledged to deploy open RAN across their sizeable footprints and collaborate on pushing forward the architecture, which is shaking-up the make-up of mobile networks.