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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 23, 2017
 
 
 
 
Beyond Connectivity 2017
 
 
NTT to demo new subsea cable fibre-optic system at 1.44 petabit
even though research into and development of improved subsea cables continues apace it seldom gets the sort of industry or media attention that is routinely lavished on 5G or network transformation based on SDN and NFV. However, today comes the news that the Japanese telco, NTT, is about to demonstrate a new fibre-optic system that, by placing 12 separate cores (or light paths) within a single 125 micron glass fibre, will be able to handle traffic at 1.44 petabit per second (a petabit is one quadrillion binary digits or one thousand...
 
Tata buys 35% in IoT specialist Teleena
Tata Communications has boosted its interest in mobile virtual networks and machine-to-machine communications by becoming the largest shareholder in Teleena, taking a 35% holding. Teleena is a mobile virtual network enabler (MVNE) and internet of things (IoT) specialist based in Nieuwegein, near Utrecht in the Netherlands. It is an unquoted company, so no price has been disclosed for the purchase. Tata Communications disclosed the information in a filing to the Bombay Stock Exchange on Friday. The company said the...
 
Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia, Genesys partner to enhance digital services
Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia has announced Genesys will provide a digital services centres to help its customers and also facilitate their communication with operations with minimal effort. The partnership will see Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia strengthen the trust between themselves and its customers, through the unification of the company's points and communication channels, including their accounts on social networks. Previously, operators depended on the call centre as a tool to respond to customer requests whereby...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Thuraya & Ooredoo set to transform communications in Indonesia
Member Logo The agreement has created a framework for collaboration in three main areas. New services will be developed using Indosat SIM cards roaming on the Thuraya network as well as bundling satellite devices with Indosat Ooredoo...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Service providers switching to OTT
 
•  M1 and Huawei reach 35Gbps speeds during 5G trial
 
•  Artificial Intelligence service launched on social networking platform in Dubai
 
•  5G could give $3trn boost to global GDP – Qualcomm
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
SIMs sale rises in Bangladesh: BTRC
According to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, Mobile operators sold more than 1.6 million SIMs after the government launched mandatory biometric re-registration of SIMs...
 
TRAI sets recommendations on in-building infrastructure
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India issued recommendations on ‘In-Building Access to reduces competition and eliminates consumers’ rights to select a service provider that suits their needs...
 
ARCT calls on ISPs to sign up to IXP
In order to help internet access in the East African country, DG Burundi’s Agency for Regulation and Control of Telecommunications called on domestic ISPs to sign up to the country’s national Internet Exchange...
 
South Asia
 
Nepal Telecom to launch prepaid 4G on Feb 4
Nepal Telecom has signed up around 40,000 LTE customers in the first 15 days since launching Nepal's first commercial 4G network and will be launching prepaid services from 4 February...
 
Pakistani researchers set to build Urdu speech recognition system
ITU’s Center for Speech and Language Technologies laboratory released a corpus of Urdu sentences that covers all possible distinct sounds, called phoneme by linguists, used in everyday speech...
 
PMTA plans mobile app for metro bus service
The Punjab Mass Transit Authority is planning to launch a mobile App to provide easy access to people to get information about Multan Metro Bus Service...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
China 4G subscribers account for almost half of 4G users globally
China, the world’s largest LTE market by a large margin, added 347 million 4G subscribers in 2016 to take the country’s 4G penetration to 57 per cent...
 
SK Telecom, Nokia develop MCPTT service over VoLTE
South Korean operator SK Telecom and Nokia have jointly developed a ‘Mission-Critical Push-To-Talk (MCPTT)’ service, a push-to-talk communications technology over VoLTE...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
WeChat Launches Cloud-Based Mini Apps
WeChat launched Cloud-Based Mini Apps.It is an idea wherein apps work better if it is embedded in a single program rather than them being proliferated across the home screen...
 
RTI Connectivity taps NEC for HK-Guam cable
RTI Connectivity, a subsea cable development company established by US entrepreneurs in Singapore, has contracted NEC to supply a subsea cable linking Hong Kong and Guam...
 
Spain's Sarenet expands FTTH network to Tarragona, Cantabria
Spanish operator Sarenet has announced that its symmetric 100 Mbps FTTH offer is now available in the regions of Tarragona and Cantabria...
 
 
Middle East
 
Oracle enhances capabilities in UAE to support cloud growth
Oracle plans to continue its extensive infrastructure investments and expands its cloud footprint in the US, UK and Turkey...
 
Samsung introducing mobile payment service to UAE
Samsung Pay has launched its mobile payment service in the UAE with Mashreq Bank and all debit and credit cardholders can now use Samsung Pay to make payments...
 
App designed to keep tabs on blind pupils in Oman
The Omar bin Al Khattab School for the Blind is making a mobile application for parents to monitor their children’s status as well as access the bus drivers’ details for enhanced safety...
 
Virgin Mobile Saudi Arabia, Genesys partner to enhance digital services
Previously, operators depended on the call centre as a tool to respond to customer requests whereby the customer is walked through an automated voice menu to reach a call agent who will then attend to his request. However,...
 
North Africa
 
Orange Egypt set to launch new services
According to Orange Egypt, it will launch the new 4G internet services after it completes experimental networking, and obtains final approval from the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Ciena boosts Cablevision’s network in Argentina
Cablevisión has chosen Ciena to lay the foundation to meet the rising demand for video offerings, including its IPTV services...
 
ShowMax teams up with SEACOM for faster content delivery
ShowMax, has partnered with SEACOM for East and Southern Africa to host ShowMax caching servers in Nairobi, Kenya, allowing for peering to take place with local internet service providers (ISPs)...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Singapore 2G Switchoff Highlights Digital Divide
When Singapore pulls the plug on its 2G mobile phone network this year, thousands of people could be stuck without a signal - digital have-nots left behind by the relentless march of technology...
 
Australian start-up combines technology, physical activity & online gaming
Elanation CEO combined technology, physical activity & online gaming into a new type of wearable device, designed specifically for kids...
 
NTT to demo new subsea cable fibre-optic system at 1.44 petabit
Generally, efforts to increase optical network capacity to accommodate ever-increasing data traffic have been focused on lowering the cost of infrastructure by developing more efficient optical communications equipment...
 
Tata buys 35% in IoT specialist Teleena
Tata Communications has boosted its interest in mobile virtual networks and machine-to-machine communications by becoming the largest shareholder in Teleena, taking a 35% holding. Teleena is ten years old and says it manages...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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