Dawiyat Integrated (wholly owned by Saudi Electricity Company - SEC)

Dawiyat Integrated Telecommunications & Information Technology Company is a Saudi telecommunications and digital infrastructure provider, wholly owned by Saudi Electricity Company (now Saudi Energy). Founded in 2009 and based in Riyadh, it was established to optimally invest in SEC’s optical fiber resources and has developed a nationwide fiber network covering more than 80,000 km across all regions and cities of Saudi Arabia, including villages, hamlets, deserts and border areas, and extending interconnections to GCC states. The company operates in building and operating fiber optics for homes and fixed telecommunications, and provides wholesale infrastructure services to major telecom operators, along with dark fiber, ISP, IoT connectivity, managed services, and retail colocation. Its fiber network underpins a significant share of the Kingdom’s broadband infrastructure and is growing by around 5% annually. Dawiyat’s strategy focuses on enabling a robust, resilient digital infrastructure that supports Saudi Vision 2030 and the National Transformation Program. It works across residential, industrial, educational, financial and economic projects, including connecting industrial cities such as Sudair and Jeddah’s Second Industrial City, and housing projects developed with the National Housing Company. It has installed around 870,000 FTTX households since inception, of which 609,000 have been activated at least once, and supports about 2.5 million IoT smart meters. Under MCIT’s fiber expansion program, it was awarded 34 remote cities with SAR 414 million in government support to extend broadband. The company is investing SAR 9.8 billion to expand digital infrastructure, including a global fiber footprint, three large data centers totaling 144 MW, and a network of 100 small data centers. Dawiyat pursues extensive partnerships and cross-border connectivity initiatives. Domestically, it has signed MoUs and agreements with STC, Mobily, Integrated Telecom Company and others to deploy fiber-to-the-home and open-access broadband, allowing end users to choose services from their preferred operators over Dawiyat’s network. Regionally, it has a cooperation agreement with Oman Broadband to build terrestrial fiber connectivity between Saudi Arabia and Oman and to conduct joint studies, knowledge exchange and R&D in fiber technologies. Internationally, Dawiyat has agreed with Greece’s Grid Telecom to develop a subsea cable system linking Saudi Arabia, Crete and other destinations in Europe and the Arabian Peninsula, aimed at improving network resiliency, creating a new entry point to Europe and enabling future hyperscale-ready data center projects. Through these initiatives, Dawiyat positions itself as an integrated digital infrastructure provider serving telecom operators, data centers, and national connectivity programs across Saudi Arabia and beyond.