Telecommunications has without doubt been the greatest boom market in the Middle East for the past five years. Infrastructure improvement contracts in all of the Middle East markets have contributed to a total spend of almost $10 billion in that time.

Saudi Arabia alone has spent almost $6 billion on public switched network and GSM network expansion projects this decade and the spending has not stopped. Telephone Expansion Project 8 (TEP8) is about to begin with the major telecommunications companies bidding for a slice of a $2 billion contract.

The key driving force for telecoms expansions this decade has been the digitisation of the networks. Today, the drive for privatisation, particularly in Africa, is creating further opportunities. Add to that the growth in overall business activity and the booming corporate PBX market and you understand why the world’s telecommunications vendors are prepared to invest so heavily in the Middle East and Africa.

CommsMEA has been serving the Middle East and African telecommunications market for almost 12 years with incisive news coverage of major developments and in-depth features about local market trends and technology issues.

The magazine’s readership is dominated by the key executives that make the decisions on major PTT projects as well as teleco managers in the major government and private organisations. Readers know that if they need to keep abreast of how to improve the service their telecommunications equipment delivers to customers and colleagues, they need to read CommsMEA. It has consistently proved that it is first to the news, and can dig underneath the story to create articles that are immediately relevant and useful to its readers.

CommsMEA is dedicated to the interests of its readership in the Arab League states and the African continent. The magazine covers every aspect of communications equipment, products, services and usage in those regions, with a particular emphasis on the provision of cost-effective solutions to problems encountered by users and service providers.