Our latest report summarises the main regulatory developments in the Middle East and North Africa telecoms sector between October 2020 and January 2021:
Some of the highlights include:
- Algeria adopted a procedure for handling consumer complaints.
- Bahrain defined licensing requirements for IP-based voice and message services.
- Kuwait issued a quality of service regulation and adopted an interconnection regulation.
- Oman aligned termination rates for international calls with national calls.
- Qatar plans to release more spectrum for 5G.
- Saudi Arabia updated the cloud computing regulatory framework.
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