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India???or Sri Lanka?
All of it, and more.
UAE has a (de facto) duopoly - DU and Etisalat. Technically you can buy transit directly from their upstreams in the FTZs but this then requires telecom licensing (unlike colo/dedi with them) and implementation of censorship (which also puts you under their "National security" laws which can ask for pretty much anything from you, customer data, server copies, port mirrors...) - BW pricing itself with DU/Etisalat is around 15$/Mbit in Dubai (bit less in Abu Dhabi for some reason), their upstreams (TATA for example) are a bit cheaper on higher commits. I researched that once extensively for EDIS but had to kill the idea as the laws are very strict and government power is not really separated from judicial power (i.e. "Special" Police can make up laws pretty much on the spot without any credible oversight).
KSA has a similar system with a bunch more ISPs - Etihad (iirc now "Mobily"), Saudi Telecom (STC), ITC (not to be confused with Irans ITC) + some more. There are some carriers present on the coast (both sides) and in the capital but all external cables seem to be owned/controlled by Saudi Telecom which does backhaul to Europe and Dubai. Pricing is good for transport (2-3$ to Europe 2014), transit is also not that expensive (don't know exact pricing, but Nashirnet sells at around 5$/Mbit). Selling services to enduser (Webhosting, VPS etc.) requires licensing (harsh enforced, LONG jail sentences), reselling services in KSA (like some here do from Nashirnet) would technically require licensing as well (idea behind that is that each IP must be traceable to enduser data).