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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
September 12, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
Orange Jordan to be the exclusive provider of telecom services to Al Hussein Technical University
 
 
Orange Jordan has signed an agreement with Al Hussein Technical University to provide exclusive telecommunication services for the university...
 
Gulf smart cities face cyber threat
Gulf governments have been warned to take cyber security seriously or risk their smart cities succumbing to future threats and data leaks…
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  MySTC application enables customers to check device availability in sales outlets
Member Logo MySTC application added a new feature which will enable STC customers to search and check the availability of the devices in Sales outlets.
 
•  Sudatel to boost investment in domestic and Pan-African operations
Member Logo The Sudatel Telecom Group today issued its latest financial statement and outlined plans for continued expansion of its telecom infrastructure across West Africa...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  BOCRA: 4G network covers 45% of population
 
•  Zain Kuwait achieves over 70Gbps speed in 5G trial
 
•  Nokia eases IoT market entry for mobile operators
 
•  TRA: iPhones dominate smartphone sales in the UAE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• Philippines regulator considering public-private partnership model for broadband expansion
The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) is mulling options to use a public-private partnership (PPP) model for at least one component of the country’s National Broadband Plan (NBP)
 
• Nepal tops 35.5 mln phone customers in May
According to data from the Nepal Telecommunications Authority, Nepal reached 35.57 million voice telephony subscribers in May, up from 35.2 million in April…
 
• Thailand to auction dtac 4G spectrum in January
Thailand’s telecoms regulator accelerated plans to auction spectrum in the 850MHz and 1.8GHz bands currently operated by dtac…
 
Middle East
 
• Orange Jordan to be the exclusive provider of telecom services to Al Hussein Technical University
Orange Jordan has signed an agreement with Al Hussein Technical University to provide exclusive telecommunication services for the university...
 
• Ooredoo Oman launches new international bundles
Ooredoo Oman says its customers can now talk longer for less with its new international calling bundles...
 
• Ookla selects Awasr as fastest fixed broadband provider in Oman
According to Ookla, the company behind Speedtest, Awasr has been recognized as Oman’s fastest fixed broadband network…
 
• Rural Internet connectivity expanding
High-speed internet has been provided to more than 27,700 villages across Iran…
 
• Gulf smart cities face cyber threat
Gulf governments have been warned to take cyber security seriously or risk their smart cities succumbing to future threats and data leaks…
 
North Africa
 
• Techne Summit returns to Egypt
The annual entrepreneurship and technology Techne Summit is returning to Egypt for the third time at the end of the month, and will feature two startup competitions in addition to the event’s scheduled sessions...
 
• Iflix expands in Africa with Ghana launch
Emerging market SVOD service, Iflix, has expanded its African reach after going live in Ghana last week…
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• AT&T tests 400 Gigabit Ethernet solution
AT&T has successfully tested a single-wavelength 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) data connection across its production network...
 
• Boeing to make 7 satellites for broadband network
Boeing has signed up to build a fleet of seven satellites that will provide broadband internet connectivity from medium Earth orbit for SES’ O3b network…
 
• Broadband speeds soar on Carlisle housing development
Openreach – Britain’s digital network business – is piloting a new way of installing ‘full fiber’ broadband lines across housing developments which builds over its existing copper broadband...
 
 
South Asia
 
• China to assist Bangladeshi ICT projects
China has signed a framework agreement with Bangladesh to fund the country for its development of ICT infrastructure...
 
• Telenor extends A2P SMS partnership
Telenor has renewed its A2P SMS business partnership with Anam Technologies which saw them deliver a patented SMS Firewall and traffic analysis technologies across Telenor networks in Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar, Serbia and...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• Dubai Land Department launches interactive app
Dubai Land Department has developed an interactive multi-platform application that helps investors and developers track the progress of all real estate development projects…
 
• Entel boosts IPTV reach across Bolivia
Entel has revealed ambitious plans to extend its fibre-based services, including IPTV, across Bolivia...
 
• Sky launches OTT VOD platform in Spain
The start of this week has seen a new over-the-top (OTT) player in Spain, with the release of Sky’s video-on-demand (VOD) and live streaming platform in the country…
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• Celcom Axiata plans to increasing LTE coverage to 85%
Celcom Axiata Bhd is confident of increasing its LTE population coverage to 85% by the end of the current year…
 
• Samsung joins Sprint for gigabit LTE
Samsung and Sprint will continue their real-world trials of Massive MIMO in an attempt to attain gigabit speeds on Sprint's live LTE network…
 
• EE refarming 2G spectrum to boost 4G speeds
British mobile network operator EE is upgrading more of its base stations to utilize spectrum previously used for 2G services…
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• SoftBank demonstrates 5G use cases
SoftBank and Huawei Technologies Japan have jointly demonstrated various potential use cases for a 5G network...
 
• China’s IoT sector exceeds USD 142 billion
China’s Internet of Things (IoT) industry has seen its output value exceed RMB 930 billion(USD 142 billion) in 2016 according to the vice minister for Industry and Information Technology...
 
• AudioCode to provide SIP trunking solutions to Portugal Telecom
AudioCodes' Mediant multi-service business routers (MSBR) have been selected by Portugal Telecom for a large-scale, multi-year SIP trunk project...
 
• AT&T unveils cloud-enabled IoT asset management platform
AT&T announced a new IoT platform, called AT&T Asset Management – Operations Center which is used for the deployment of asset monitoring and management products in the cloud…
 
• T-Mobile to launch first narrowband-IoT network next month
T-Mobile plans to initially deploy a NB-IoT network in Las Vegas next month with the goal of completing the deployment across the country by 2018 as a part of an effort to advance its IoT push...
 
• Rohde & Schwarz adds 5GHz bandwidth option for analysers
Rohde & Schwarz is offering a wideband extension for its RTO2064 digital oscilloscope and FSW85 signal and spectrum analyzer…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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