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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
September 21, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Capacity on four Eutelsat satellites mobilised for TV coverage by German and international media outlets
Member Logo Capacity on four satellites operated by Eutelsat Communications is mobilised by leading German and international media to cover the German federal election...
 
•  STC launches fresh graduates program in cooperation with international ICT companies
Member Logo STC has announced launching “fresh graduates” program for 75 students representing the first batch of the program ..
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Ukraine’s first telecom satellite launching ‘early 2018’
 
•  Orange Jordan to be the exclusive provider of telecom services to Al Hussein Technical University
 
•  BOCRA: 4G network covers 45% of population
 
•  Zain Kuwait achieves over 70Gbps speed in 5G trial
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Zambia to license fourth mobile operator
The Zambian government has given the go ahead for a fourth mobile operator to be selected to compete with Airtel, MTN and Zamtel...
 
Cell-phone subscriber numbers increased in UAE
According to the TRA, total subscriptions to UAE telecommunication services increased to 23.36 million by the end of July from 23.31 million in June 2017…
 
NCC plans achieving 30% broadband penetration by 2018
According to the Nigerian Communications Commission, it is committed to achieve the 30 per cent approved National Broadband Implementation Plan by 2018…
 
Middle East
 
Syniverse enables LTE roaming for Alfa Telecom in Lebanon
Syniverse’s global, reliable and secure platform provides global LTE coverage with enhanced experience...
 
STC wins five international awards in Dubai
STC Won five awards on the margin of its participation in (Telecoms World Middle East 2017) which was held in Dubai this week…
 
GE inks deal with Hewlett Packard Enterprise for digital solutions
GE has signed a strategic partnership agreement with HPE that will bring GE Digital’s breakthrough digital industrial solutions at scale to the Middle East, Africa and Turkey…
 
Phone calls from UAE to Saudi Arabia at half the price till Saturday
A day after the UAE’s telecom operators changed their network names on their customers’ phones, a bigger news followed — 50 per cent discounts for calls made from the UAE to Saudi Arabia...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt based starup raises investment for its e-payment services
The Egyptian fintech startup Vapulus for E-payment has closed seed investment deal with a regional venture capital fund raising US$ 250,000 as it prepares to launch its first phase of operations in Egypt, Jordan, and...
 
Unearthing Africa’s telecoms sector growth potential
Africa is the second largest continent in the world, with a population of more than one billion people and the social and economic impact that telecommunications have had on Africa over the past decade is astounding...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
GeoLinks teams with Mimosa to deliver fiber-fast broadband
To revolutionize internet access at underserved government, educational, and healthcare organizations, GeoLinks joined Mimosa to deliver fiber-fast broadband…
 
Open Fiber inks wholesale FTTH deal with Wind Tre
Open Fiber inked an agreement with Wind Tre that will see the recently-merged mobile operator offer FTTH to 60% of the Italian population using its wholesale fibre network…
 
 
South Asia
 
Dialog's mobile services fully restored in Sri Lanka
While expressing regrets over the inconvenience to its customers arising from network disturbances, Dialog announced that the services were fully restored in less than 60 minutes...
 
4G driving data consumption ratefor telecom operators in Nepal
The domestic telecommunication companies have recorded a significant surge in data consumption rate after the launch of 4G service in Nepal…
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Anevia, Mirada partner to power broadcasters through OTT transition
Madrid-based Mirada and French provider of video delivery technology Anevia are joining forces to better address operators and broadcasters in their transition OTT...
 
Chunghwa Telecom, Fox+ partner on OTT services
Taiwanese operator Chunghwa Telecom teamed up with video streaming platform Fox+, a unit of Fox Networks Group, to provide OTT services on the local market…
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Tele2 Estonia upgrades LTE network for faster speeds
Mobile operator Tele2 Estonia has started upgrading 112 of its LTE base stations which will allow upto three times faster mobile internet speeds for end-users…
 
Merged VSAT and 4G marine communications technology unveiled
NSSLGlobal introduced FusionIP, which combines VSAT and mobile phone network connectivity within a Cobham Satcom device...
 
China 4G subscriber base hits 927 million
China’s big three mobile operators continued their steady march toward 1 billion 4G subscriptions with figures from each company showing they picked up a combined 23.5 million LTE subscribers in August, taking their...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Rome to launch 5G trial in 2018
Italian telecommunications operator Fastweb has signed an agreement with the Rome city council to begin trials of 5G and future Wi-Fi technologies in 2018...
 
Google signs handset partnership with HTC
Google has signed a handset deal with HTC which will see Google acquire HTC's Pixel division as part of the software giant's latest investment in smartphone...
 
Orange pre-installs cellular connectivity to aid IoT growth
Orange has partnered on what it claimed is the first Internet of Things module with integrated cellular connectivity and launched a programme aimed at growing the cellular IoT ecosystem...
 
BT joins Hitachi to develop Industrial and enterprise IOT solutions
BT teams up with Hitachi to develop Industrial and Enterprise IOT solutions initial focus on Asset Intelligence and Predictive Maintenance Use Cases...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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