To what extent are unlimited data services sustainable from a profitability standpoint?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | Prince Naif bin Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer, Chairman, Zain Saudi Arabia: Interview from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2018
Accounting for 6% of GDP and 10% of non-oil GDP in 2016, according to the Communications and Information Technology Commission, Saudi Arabia’s ICT sector plays an important part in the Kingdom’s economy. Spending in the sector exceeded SR130bn ($34.7bn) in 2016, and in 2017 it was expected to reach SR138bn ($36.8bn) despite economic headwinds. The government’s recently finalised economic...
Articles & Analysis | Broad appeal: The broadband network is expanding rapidly, though fixed connections are far outnumbered by mobile subscriptions from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2018
With a land mass bigger than that of both Iran and Pakistan, Saudi Arabian telecoms firms intending to roll out infrastructure to the country’s widely distributed population face an expensive proposition. Rural areas, in particular, have historically represented a financially unattractive prospect, lacking the client base that would make large-scale...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Building drive: Essam Alshiha, CEO, Saudi Business Machines, on IT spending and digital transformation from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2018
Interviews & Viewpoints | Data driven: Prince Naif bin Sultan bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer, Chairman, Zain Saudi Arabia, on growing data services and profitability in a competitive environment from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2018
To what extent are unlimited data services sustainable from a profitability standpoint?
Articles & Analysis | Digital arms: Government initiatives help drive digitisation across the economy from The Report: Saudi Arabia 2018
Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 strategy establishes ICT as a central pillar of the Kingdom’s future development. A number of Saudi ministries have been actively pursuing an ICT agenda for some years, and this work is set to accelerate as they strive to meet the shorter-term objectives recently defined by the National Transformation Programme (NTP)....