This August 2025 MEA News Digest article gives an update on major developments in the Middle East & Africa telecom markets.
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Middle East & Africa News Digest – August 2025
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Danson Njue
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Danson Njue is a Senior Research Analyst with Omdia. He works as part of the Middle East and Africa team, focusing on providing insights on telco and vendor strategies across Sub-Saharan Africa. His research includes operator network and digital strategies, disruptive technologies, and regulatory frameworks in sub-Saharan Africa.
Danson joined Omdia, formerly Ovum, in March 2011 as a Research Analyst. Before that, he was a wireless training engineer at Huawei Technologies Limited in Kenya and has also worked as a base station subsystem engineer at Safaricom PLC. Danson holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering, specializing in telecommunications, a master’s degree in electrical and electronic systems, and an honors degree in electrical and electronics engineering.
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Ravi Shende
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Based in India, Ravi works with the Omdia forecasting and data analysis team. He covers telecoms operator performance, tracks TMT developments across the MENA region, provides quarterly updates of telecoms operators through the Omdia model, and focuses on improving the quality of data available to the clients.
Ravi has almost three years’ experience in the research industry. He also has experience in market and competitive analysis, product benchmarking, qualitative and quantitative research, forecasting, and in-database management processes. Before joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked at Infiniti Research on syndicated reports for seven months. Prior to Infiniti Research, he also worked across various industries, such as telecoms, IT, and retail at Netscribes for 1.5 years. He provided insights on companies’ business and technology strategies to clients. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and communication engineering from KITS College and a postgraduate diploma in management in telecom.
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As part of Omdia’s forecasting and data analysis team in India, Sanket covers telecoms operators’ performance and tracks TMT developments across the African region. He provides quarterly updates of telecoms operators through the Omdia model, focuses on improving the quality of data available to clients, and contributes to several products.
Sanket has more than two years’ work experience in the research industry. He has experience in market and competitive analysis, product benchmarking, sales enablement, qualitative and quantitative research, forecasting, and in-database management processes. Before joining Informa (now Omdia), he worked as an analyst at Mordor Intelligence LLP on syndicated reports and market estimates. He has worked on various syndicated reports in telecoms, electronics, automation, and IT domains. He has also worked with various tools such as Factiva, DiscoverOrg, Capital IQ, and ONESOURCE. In 2019, Sanket received his postgraduate diploma in management in marketing and analytics from the Institute of Management Technology, Nagpur.
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Mangesh Nagapurkar
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Market research professional armed with secondary and primary research methodologies that provides data-driven insights specifically for telecom sector. The body of current work involves analysis and forecasting of telecom operators’ and regulator’s quarterly data for 2G, 3G, and 5G subscriptions as well as their financial KPIs such as ARPU, service revenues, capex, and EBITDA. Plus, tracing M&A in the MEA region.
Lately, handling markets of the Middle East and Africa region. Landed in the market research industry in the year 2019 with a master’s degree in business administration and a bachelor’s degree in the field of mechanical engineering. Worked under couple of market research and consulting firms such as MarketsandMarkets and GlobalData that involved team handling, data and company analysis, deciding go-to-market strategy, and forecasting for clients in telecom, technology, consumers, and agricultural businesses.
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