Dubai, UAE – 16 December 2025 – A new milestone in digital healthcare has been set: Zain Omantel International (ZOI), together with Zain Kuwait, enabled a Guinness World Record-breaking remote robotic surgery over 12,034 km, linking a surgical team in Kuwait with a patient in Brazil in near real-time.
Powered by ZOI’s ultra-low latency international backbone and Zain Kuwait’s local access network, the operation achieved 199ms end-to-end latency, 80 Mbps average bandwidth, and just 0.19% packet loss, allowing surgeons to control robotic instruments with precision across continents.
The operation, performed at Jaber Al-Ahmad Hospital (Kuwait) and SCOLLA, Hospital Cruz Vermelha (Brazil), involved inguinal TAPP robotic surgery. Guinness World Records recognized it as the longest-distance telesurgery ever performed, confirming that complex medical procedures can now happen globally, in real-time, without geographic limits.
Sohail Qadir, CEO of ZOI, emphasized the network’s critical role:
“This achievement shows what’s possible when every part of the network is engineered for predictable low-latency performance. We made the network the guarantee; the surgeons focused entirely on the patient.”
The project leveraged multiple diverse international paths, a purpose-built route via Kuwait, Marseille, and São Paulo, and collaboration with KFAS, Edge Medical, and AUMET, proving that digital infrastructure can support sensitive, life-critical applications at a global scale.
Beyond the headline, this operation demonstrates the potential of AI-ready, high-capacity networks in telemedicine, robotics, and other latency-sensitive sectors, setting a blueprint for the next generation of global digital services.
