Characterised by high penetration rates, early adoption of new technology and healthy average revenue per user, the Kuwait telecommunications sector is a small but profitable market in which three major regional providers compete. Faced with the erosion of traditional voice and text revenue streams, all three companies are focusing on strategies to improve services while also monetising data...
Kuwait ICT Articles & Analysis
As Kuwait’s economy continues to adjust to the new oil price environment the country’s government is pushing ahead with investment plans and reforms that promise to put the country on a sustainable growth path in the coming years.
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Tech businesses are expected to be among the beneficiaries of several new initiatives being rolled out in Kuwait targeting start-ups and e-government expansion.
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait's telecoms sector adapts to increasingly digitised world from The Report: Kuwait 2017
Characterised by high penetration rates, early adoption of new technology and healthy average revenue per user (ARPU), the Kuwait telecommunications sector is a small but profitable market in which three major regional providers compete. Faced with the erosion of traditional voice and text revenue streams, all three companies are focusing on...
Interviews & Viewpoints | Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Badran, CEO, VIVA Kuwait: Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2017
What are the challenges of 5G networks, and what services are likely to shape future 5G offerings?
Interviews & Viewpoints | Qusai Al Shatti, Acting Director-General, Central Agency for Information Technology (CAIT): Interview from The Report: Kuwait 2017
What are the most important impacts of ICT on the processes of government organisations?
Articles & Analysis | Kuwait's government embraces change and innovation in ICT sector from The Report: Kuwait 2017
ICT sits at the heart of the government’s 2035 strategy, New Kuwait, launched in 2017, but Kuwait has already made great strides in the digital economy. In the “Global Information Technology Report 2016” by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the country was among the biggest risers, and regulatory reforms are being put in place to usher in an era...
Articles & Analysis | Innovative programmes foster Kuwait's entrepreneurial spirit from The Report: Kuwait 2017
Given Kuwait’s cosmopolitan taste for fine dining from around the world, it is unsurprising that its most celebrated start-up story has a culinary flavour. It may be two years since the German company Rocket Internet paid $165m for Talabat, the Kuwaiti restaurant delivery app, but the story of its success has given a new generation of...