A telecom operator's account of full-stack sovereignty in the UAE, useful as a case study in how compute, data, and national infrastructure are packaged together.
Why we selected it
This is a regional operator view of sovereignty as infrastructure, not only as model selection. It belongs in the selection because telecom networks, data centres, cloud platforms, security operations, and AI services can sit under different ownership and jurisdiction even when they are sold as one stack.
Viewing note
Treat the session as a first-party account of du’s position and the UAE market. It is not an independent assessment of the architecture or its sovereignty. Listen for claims that can be turned into tests: control-plane location, key custody, supply-chain dependencies, workload portability, incident authority, and continuity when an external service is unavailable.