My previous Equinix blog post detailed new infrastructure projects intended to meet international demand for diverse telecommunications routes through the Middle East, bypassing the Red Sea. In that blog post, I also related some of the geopolitical, telecom regulatory, technical and commercial hurdles that must be overcome to realize the vision of terrestrial diversity at appropriate scale. But there’s an important perspective not covered in that previous post: how the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations in particular—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE—stand to benefit from addressing these challenges. Can we identify the key factors that would help…

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