This regional outlook report looks at the current state of the telecom market in the Middle East and provides the 2025–30 outlook for subscriptions and service revenue in the mobile and fixed broadband segments.
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Walaa Ibrahim
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Walaa Ibrahim is a senior research analyst with Omdia. She works as part of the Middle East & Africa team, focusing on providing insights on telco across the Middle East and North Africa. Her research includes analyzing telecom, media, technology trends, and regulatory frameworks in the Middle East and North Africa.
Walaa joined Omdia in July 2023 as a senior research analyst. Before that, she was a data analyst at Al Futtaim in Dubai, UAE and has also worked as a research supervisor at Stat Solutions in Khartoum, Sudan. Walaa holds a master’s degree in econometrics and social statistics.
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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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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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