Colt scales up Middle East operations to support surge in customer demand across the region

London, UK 9th February 2026 - Colt Technology Services (Colt), the global digital infrastructure company, today announced plans to strengthen its business in the Middle East to meet a surge in growth opportunities in the region driven by cloud adoption, AI investment, digital transformation and financial market growth. With Colt experts in the region, a global network extending to Middle Eastern markets and a strong track record in delivering services in the area, Colt plans to expand its team and continue building its business in its existing markets including Turkey and Dubai. Colt also plans to partner with local operators in markets including Saudia Arabia and additional regions of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman¹.

Demand for high capacity, low latency digital infrastructure across the Middle East is surging, with the area emerging as a significant growth engine. Colt’s customers with existing operations in the area are scaling rapidly. New entrants are also turning to Colt as they establish their own regional presence, while organisations in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific are extending and deepening their connections into the region.

The investment will see Colt expand its digital infrastructure and reinforce its position as gateway into the region, supporting customers who require secure, resilient, and deterministic connectivity with solutions including enhanced Ethernet, direct connections to cloud providers, and low latency services. Part of this investment will see customers benefit from deeper resilience as Colt leases capacity in three subsea cable systems connecting Europe and Asia with countries in the Middle East².

The plans align with Colt’s strategic direction, focused on powering the future of connectivity through world-class fibre infrastructure; delivering an autonomous AI-driven platform that makes services effortless; and providing customers with intelligent solutions that deliver secure, market leading customer experiences.

Keri Gilder, CEO, Colt Technology Services said:

“Businesses are increasingly looking to the Middle East as a land of extraordinary opportunity - a region reshaping the global digital economy and setting the pace for the next era of AI-powered innovation. While many providers are racing to establish a foothold, Colt already has exceptional people, deep regional expertise and robust infrastructure in key Middle Eastern markets - and we have ambitious, exciting plans to scale even further.”

Colt is also seeing demand for connectivity driven by a surge in data centre builds in the Middle East. Hyperscalers are investing heavily in the region, taking advantage of lower power costs

and a favourable regulatory and planning environment with gigawatt campuses and joint ventures supporting their expansion.

The announcement comes as GDP growth in the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council)³ region is forecast to outpace global growth at 4.4% for 2026.

Meet Colt at Capacity Middle East from the 10th to the 12th of February, at the Grand Hyatt Dubai Conference and Exhibition Centre, United Arab Emirates.

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Notes to Editors

¹ In Saudi Arabia, Colt plans to partner with local operators to enable solutions connected to its own infrastructure. In additional regions of the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman, Colt plans to expand via partner-enabled models.

² Customers benefit from capacity leased by Colt in three major subsea cable systems: the Europe India Gateway (EIG), FALCON and HAWK.

About the EIG subsea cable: the Europe India Gateway (EIG) subsea cable spans 15,000 km connecting Europe to the Middle East and India.

About the FALCON subsea cable: FALCON spans over 11,800 km and connects Asia (India, Sri Lanka and the Maldives) to the Middle East, including Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan and Egypt

About the HAWK subsea cable: Hawk connects into FALCON, extending connectivity from India into Europe.

³ GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) markets comprise Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain.