MAP > Internet Providers in United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates operators have continued to strive for the revenue growth in the saturated market. UAE has a strong and vibrant mobile market, and it has closely been guarded by two major operators: Etisalat and du. 2018, both the Etisalat and du have been showing some keen interest in being able to develop 5G technology and have strongly been supported by TRA that has been able to identify spectrum bands that are going to be made available for the deployment. Both the operators have their majority shareholder being the government. In the year 2017, first 2 MVNOs started to offer services in the United Arab Emirates but this never impacted upon the competition in any important way as two of them are fully owned either by Etisalat and du.

The Operators have however faced challenges with a saturated mobile market that stifles the mobile growth. The Etisalat and du have gone ahead and deployed very sophisticated LTE and HSPA+ networks which covers a large part of the population, therefore, underpinning the growth opportunities centered on the mobile broadband, content and the applications. Smartphones have become very popular, accounting for majority of mobile handsets, Growing availability of the low-cost smartphones has been able to drive mobile broadband penetration up very sharply in the last few years that have passed.

The report offers valuable insights into UAE’s highly developed telecom sector that offers the broadband that has high coverage and the well serviced mobile market. UAE boasts of very high mobile penetration that allows the operators to start capitalizing on the mobile broadband opportunities. The report analyses mobile, broadband and internet, supported by the wide range of valuable statistics. There are some smart technology developments which are underway in the United Arab Emirates.

Well-developed fiber broadband network in the United Arab Emirates has been providing operators with the opportunities to be able to grow the new services as well as offerings such as the triple play. Some of the companies mentioned in the report includes Virgin Mobile; Swyp, du; Etisalat; Thuraya; and Yahsat.

In this report, some of the key developments includes: UAE hopes to be able commercially to launch the 5G in 2020, TRA encouraging very affordable roaming rates within the GCC countries; for the year 2018 Etisalat sold the shares (28%) of the Thuraya, Licensed VoIP offering got to be launched by operators in the year 2017, UAE has been able to attract the international interest from the data center operators.