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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
April 24, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
Online travel bookings seeing a boom within MENA
MENA's travellers have been quicker to embrace online travel shopping than in any other emerging market...
 
Mobile operators advised to form partnetship with OTTs
Mobile operators need to partner with over-the-top (OTT) players and transform themselves into digital lifestyle service providers. To survive and maintain revenue growth in the digital era, mobile operators will have to think about how to work closely with OTT players to deal with the digital service revolution...
 
Tunisian, Palestinian posts ink deal to boost digital services
To boost partnership between the Tunisian and Palestinian posts in the digital services field, the Tunisian and Palestinian posts inked a bilateral co-operation agreement…
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  PCCW Global and Ideal Systems collaborated for the world’s first live 360 virtual reality broadcast of the 2017
Member Logo The challenges of real-time live VR streaming compared to traditional TV revolve around the complexity of dealing with data rates which are significantly larger and more demanding...
 
•  Huawei Enterprise Business Grows by 47% in 2016 by focusing on verticals to enable Digital Transformation
Member Logo Huawei's Smart City solution has been successfully deployed in more than 100 cities in over 40 countries...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Ofcom extends consultation on Sky/Fox deal
Ofcom has extended the deadline for submissions regarding the proposed takeover deal between pay-TV giant Sky and 21st Century Fox until 20 June; the original deadline had been set as 16 May 2017…
 
Tunisian, Palestinian posts ink deal to boost digital services
To boost partnership between the Tunisian and Palestinian posts in the digital services field, the Tunisian and Palestinian posts inked a bilateral co-operation agreement…
 
Nkom urges mobile network autonomy requirement
According to Norwegian communications regulator Nkom, it is recommending that mobile communications grids and national transport networks should be obliged to run their networks autonomously…
 
North Africa
 
Vodafone Egypt to enhance subscriber experience
In order to enhance the subscriber experience for its fixed and mobile subscribers, Vodafone Egypt has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar partnership with Procera Networks…
 
Jumia set to establish logistics centres
To boosting buying experience and delivery service in Egypt, Ecommerce player Jumia has upgraded its system to rely on the latest technologies in the first quarter of 2017…
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Geocell presents LTE roaming services
Georgian mobile operator Geocell is considering launching an opportunity to use LTE roaming services from 28 April…
 
Busy 4G LTE offers policy to support youth & SMEs
Busy 4G LTE presented a new policy with a focus on empowering the youth, entrepreneurs and small scale and medium enterprises…
 
China Telecom teams up with Transatel to offer 4G LTE
To provide connectivity options to the Chinese community, China Telecom and Transatel are opening commercial services in China for inbound roaming LTE data services…
 
Airtel Nigeria teams up with 4G Mobile Network
Airtel Nigeria teamed up with other networks by rolling out its fourth generation (4G) wireless mobile telecommunications technology in Nigeria…
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Smart e-commerce platform inaugurated in Nairobi
KOKO Networks, a tech platform that connects suppliers, retailers and consumers has launched their technology in Nairobi…
 
Illinois develops digital-ready workforce
To deliver education curricula to build a digital-ready workforce, the State of Illinois and the IoT Talent Consortium have announced a partnership to become a ‘smart state...
 
5G to create robot cars safer in bad weather
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the 5G-Safe project, which will develop new systems to track and monitor road weather at a hyperlocal level, as well as giving robotic cars the ability to...
 
Aptilo offers Guest Wi-Fi cloud service
Aptilo Networks offered Aptilo Guest Wi-Fi Cloud™, a cloud service designed for multi-site businesses or for large deployments in e.g. shopping malls, smart cities and stadiums…
 
 
Middle East
 
Etisalat considers 5G trials next year
Etisalat says it plans to begin testing 5G technology next year and hopes to launch commercially in 2019…
 
Zain Technology Center launched in KSA
To support the digital transformation of the Kingdom, a new Zain Technology Center in Saudi Arabia is all set to bring added value to the company’s customers and the public in general…
 
Online travel bookings seeing a boom within MENA
MENA's travellers have been quicker to embrace online travel shopping than in any other emerging market...
 
Mobile internet rates slashed for local businesses
Following a mandate issued by the Communication Regulatory Authority of Iran, MTN-Irancell and Mobile Communication Company of Iran, MCI cut Internet tariffs for 210 local websites…
 
Ooredoo plans to expand fiber coverage
Ooredoo is considering to expand the coverage of its highly popular superfast broadband services to new areas which will allow even more families to enjoy amazing internet speeds...
 
South Asia
 
ICT, mobiles & financial sector all set improve Pakistani economy
Information and communication technology, mobile telephony and the financial sectors are all set to expand banking to benefit a larger number of customers in Pakistan…
 
Nepal Tourism Board to boost digital presence
In a move to boost its digital presence and to adhere with the need of the present time and technology, Nepal Tourism Board once again launched its mobile App…
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Eir to launch TV service direct to Meteor mobile customers' phones
Two of Ireland's three biggest TV operators are planning to offer their TV services direct to mobile phone customers…
 
SES boosts Ultra HD presence in US
At least two Multichannel Video Programming Distributors in the US presented the first commercial linear Ultra HD services to cable and IPTV subscriber homes using SES’s satellite-delivered…
 
IPG Mediabrands launches Ansible Singapore
To access global mobile publisher ratecards, exclusive technology partnerships, IPG Mediabrands offered its mobile media and technology business Ansible Singapore…
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Thailand considers Bangkok-China-HK cable connection
In a bid to transform Thailand into Southeast Asia's digital hub, the Thai government is planning to build a new subsea cable linking China, Bangkok and Hong Kong...
 
GTC signs up fifth ISP for FTTH network
In order to support five operators, GTC’s fiber to the home open access network has signed up its fifth independent service provider (ISP), becoming the first in the UK…
 
Ericsson plans to revolutionize OTT with new offerings
Ericsson is planning to transform TV with new OTT dynamic-ad insertion technology, MediaFirst video processing solutions, cloud-based-captioning services, content-discovery tools, and its Unified Delivery Network…
 
Mobile operators advised to form partnetship with OTTs
Mobile operators need to partner with over-the-top (OTT) players and transform themselves into digital lifestyle service providers. To survive and maintain revenue growth in the digital era, mobile operators will have to...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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