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October 11, 2016

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ITU Telecom World 2016

Members

  1. Oman Air and Omantel team up to provide fixed, Wi-Fi and mobile services
    Member Logo Omantel will deliver a comprehensive suite of fixed, Wi-Fi and mobile services to Oman Air and will connect the company’s branches across the country in Salalah, Sohar, Duqm, Muscat and Khasab...  Read More
  2. STC showcasing latest innovative solutions at GITEX 2016
    Member Logo STC Business, the national operator’s enterprise business unit, will be showcasing the latest state of the art mission critical communication solutions, cloud-based services, IoT and managed services, as well as its small to medium enterprise (SME) focused retail in a box concept at its booth inside Zabeel Hall (Z-G45)...  Read More
  3. Ooredoo empowers over 500 Omanis through specialised spring and summer development courses
    Member Logo Government employees from a variety of different Ministries and promising young students were equipped with skills in critical thinking, data analysis, communication, problem solving, technical business writing, time management, and teamwork...  Read More
  4. Cisco names new MD for Middle East
    Member Logo Salameh is tasked with leading Cisco’s business and operations in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the Levant and Iraq to capitalise on the opportunities created by digitisation...  Read More
  5. Huawei to share Smart City vision at GITEX
    Member Logo This year's key highlights will include solutions developed together with Huawei's technology partners, designed specifically for government, education, hospitality, real estate, banking and transportation sectors in the Middle East...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. EU pushes IoT security regulations
    The body wants to see the creation of a certification process for “Internet of Things” devices that would ensure users are protected... Read More
  2. TRA launches Government Service Bus project
    The GSB project is one of the 22 initiatives of the UAE mGovernment, which networks a number of services for local and federal entities within an easily accessible electronic system where smooth exchange of data between these entities’ systems to serve the customer needs in obtaining the required data... Read More

South Asia

  1. Axiata to continue Dialog Sri Lanka operations with more investments
    Axiata has controlling interests in six mobile operators under the brand names of ‘Celcom’ in Malaysia, ‘XL’ in Indonesia, ‘Dialog’ in Sri Lanka, ‘Robi’ in Bangladesh, ‘Smart’ in Cambodia and ‘Ncell’ in Nepal, with strategic interests in ‘Idea’ in India and ‘M1’ in Singapore... Read More

Middle East

  1. US telecom giant AT&T to provide roaming service in Iran
    RighTel was the only Iranian operator that had started to take measures to establish an international roaming service between Iran and the US. This had made America’s second largest telecommunications services provider the only US provider to offer phone service in Iran... Read More

North Africa

  1. LS telcom joins African Telco Union
    LS telcom will play a key role in assisting ATU to meet its objectives particularly in promoting the rapid development of information and communication technologies and the knowledge society in Africa... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. MTN, Etisalat follow Globacom with Nigerian 4G network launch
    Etisalat Nigeria’s LTE network operates in the 1800MHz frequency band. Unlike MTN, however, Etisalat customers do not need to acquire a new 4G SIM card, as all of the UAE-owned cellco’s SIMs are already LTE-enabled... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Google not trying to be major telco rival
    The repeated denials clearly reflect the growing concern that Google poses a threat to operators through its own telco-like activities. Like other OTTPs, Google has launched various web services that allow customers to make phone calls or send messages without using traditional telco offerings... Read More
  2. Facebook targets business market with new Workplace app
    Workplace by Facebook is offered to businesses for a monthly fee per employee and provides a platform to exchange messages, conduct video calls, collaborate on documents and network with colleagues... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. TalkTalk signs multi-year TV content deal with Sky
    Around 1.4 million customers are signed up to TalkTalk’s TV service, although the company lost 23,000 between April and June. It has made two significant additions to its TV offering this year... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. BT volunteers to take on universal broadband obligation
    BT will volunteer to become the designated universal service provider (USP) to fulfil the government’s planned broadband universal service obligation (USO) of a 10Mbps service to every premises in the UK by 2020... Read More
  2. Nokia adds assurance capabilities to its “carrier-grade” SDN platform
    Assurance provides the missing link that operators need to start large-scale commercial SDN deployment, which in turn is being spurred by the growth of cloud, video and IoT... Read More
  3. Tata Communications to expand in Malaysia and the Middle East
    Tata Communications is looking to set up two new centres in Malaysia and the Middle East for cloud data centres infrastructure, responding to strong demand for internetworking... Read More

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