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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 2, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
STC wins award for best wholesale operator in the Middle East
 
 
STC took part in the European conference for international capacities ‘Capacity Europe2017’ that was held in London where Saudi Telecom represented by Wholesale sector won the award for best operator for wholesale services in the Middle East...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  iPhone X arrives at Etisalat on 3 November
Member Logo Etisalat today announced it will offer iPhone X, the future of the smartphone, featuring a revolutionary new design with a stunning all-screen display...
 
•  iPhone X arrives at VIVA on Friday, 3 November
Member Logo VIVA has announced that it will offer iPhone X, the future of the smartphone, featuring a revolutionary new design with a stunning all-screen display in stores starting on Friday, 3 November 2017...
 
•  Cloud-native Nokia Session Border Controller sets benchmark for performance and security in fixed, cable and mobile networks
Member Logo Nokia has announced its next-generation Session Border Controller software, offering service providers dramatically higher levels of performance and security for their cloud-native deployments...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
NBTC to hold spectrum auction in May 2018
Thailand's National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) expects to hold auctions of the 900 and 1800 megahertz (MHz) airwave frequencies in May 2018...
 
NCC plans on direct payment using mobile phone airtime
The Nigerian Communications Commission has said that citizien will soon start to pay for consumer goods and services directly using their mobile phone airtime...
 
Joint venture between Slovenia and Bangladesh wins MNP bid
Infozillion BD Teletech Consortium Limited, a Slovenian-Bangladeshi joint venture, has won the license bid of mobile phone number portability (MNP) service and the license will be handed over on November 7...
 
South Asia
 
Zong 4G upgrades backbone transmission network
In order to keep up with its fast rising subscriber base, Zong 4G has successfully expanded its backbone transmission network from multiples of 10Gbps to 100Gbps...
 
Telenor Group keen to invest in Bangladesh
Telenor Group is keen to invest heavily in Bangladesh to broaden its digital services, especially in the 4G segment...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Exterity IPTV hospital system delivers entertainment and training in Turkey
Exterity’s IPTV system has been deployed by TOBB ETÜ Hospital in Ankara, Turkey to provide patient entertainment and enhance staff development...
 
Bango expands presence in South Korea
Mobile payments company Bango has expanded its presence in South Korea to increase payment opportunities for digital, physical and internet of things (IoT) services in the nation...
 
Dutch DTH platform goes hybrid
Dutch DTH platform Canal Digitaal, has gone hybrid with a combined satellite and IPTV offer...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
DOCOMO and MediaTek announce successful 5G trial
According to NTT DOCOMO, in a joint trial conducted with MediaTek it has successfully developed a chipset to increase the spectral efficiency of mobile devices by up to 2.3 times compared to existing LTE technology...
 
Malaysian mobile operator launches vEPC network
A virtual evolved packet core (vEPC) network has been deployed and launched hy webe digital using equipment from ZTE...
 
 
Middle East
 
STC launches IPhoneX in the Kingdom starting from third of November
STC announced, launching IPhoneX- the future of smart phones- featuring a revolutionary new design with a stunning all-screen display...
 
Batelco holds workshop for management as part of iLead programme
Batelco in line with its commitment to develop its employees held a workshop for its middle and senior managers as part of the Company’s iLead programme...
 
Mobile subscriptions in UAE reach 19.7 million
Mobile phone subscriptions in the UAE reached 19.7 million by the end of September, based on the latest statistics released the telecom operators...
 
North Africa
 
ADSL internet subscribers rise in Egypt
According to latest statistics, there has been a significant addition in ADSL Internet subscribers in Egypt, marking a 13.3% growth in August 2017, where the number increased from 4.35 million users in August 2016 to 4.92...
 
Risks of cyber attacks threaten ‘Internet Economy’ in MENA
The Middle East and North Africa face more significant challenges related to securing information and infrastructure from cyber-attacks by hackers focused on sabotaging, extorting, or defrauding their victims...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Singapore's 4G speed the highest among 77 nations
According to a recent OpenSignal report, Singapore has the best 4G LTE experience with a 46.64Mbps average download speed among 77 nations...
 
Netherlands based KPN expands B2B VoLTE
KPN has announced that it is expanding the availability of its VoLTE services into the business customer sector over the coming weeks for B2B users with compatible smartphones...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Comcast to boost internet speeds
Comcast will begin boosting its internet speeds to most of its Chattanooga customers next week and by mid December to complete increases in internet speeds from 75 Mbps to 100 Mbps for Blast! customers...
 
China announces ambitious inflight internet plan
China has announced an ambitious Five-year Plan for the Inflight Internet to be completed by 2022.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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