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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 21, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
The Brightline Initiative Announces the Addition of Saudi Telecom Company
 
 
The Brightline Initiative announced that Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is joining the Brightline Initiative coalition to help advance the discipline of strategic initiative management and bridge gaps between enterprise strategy design and delivery...
 
CommsMEA Awards 2017 celebrates transformation efforts in the industry
CommsMEA Awards 2017 opened to a packed house at Grosvenor House, Dubai, as various stakeholders of the telecommunications industry in the region came together for an evening of appreciation and networking...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Etisalat participates in 'AI, Cyber security and digitization enablers: Challenges & Expectations' at Knowledge Summit
Member Logo Telecom operators play a major role in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution by providing the needed connectivity and infrastructure, including access between the different entities in the digital ecosystem to create...
 
•  Eutelsat all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite set to transform connectivity landscape in Asia-Pacific
Member Logo Eutelsat Communications’ all-electric EUTELSAT 172B satellite that went into full commercial service this morning is now offering greatly enhanced flexibility, power and connectivity for users in a vast region...
 
•  Huawei Releases Position Paper on 5G Spectrum, Appealing for Global Harmonisation
Member Logo Huawei releases a Position Paper on 5G Spectrum, which presents Huawei's insights and recommendations on 5G spectrum policy...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
NCC plans financial stress test for telecom operators
The Nigerian Communications Commission has carefully developed a monitoring and compliance plan effective this last quarter of 2017 to periodically conduct stress tests on its telecommunications licensees...
 
Germany temporarily bans kids smartwatches, citing privacy concerns
Germany’s telecom regulator, the Federal Network Agency, has banned the sales of all smartwatches to kids after it was discovered that many of the devices made for children are at risk of being hacked...
 
North Africa
 
Safaricom launches e-commerce portal
Safaricom has officially announced the launch of its e-commerce portal, which aims to leverage the mobile phone to provide local merchants with unlimited potential to sell their products and services via an online platform...
 
46.9 precent of Egyptian children use mobile phones
According to a report by CAPMAS, 46.9% of Egyptian children whose age ranges between 4 and 17 years, use mobile phones.
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Vodafone Italy launches 550Mbps LTE-A in Naples
Vodafone has introduced 550Mbps 4G LTE-A services in Naples, adding to its previous launches in Florence, Palermo, Milan, Verona, Turin and Bologna...
 
O! expands coverage of LTE network
Kyrgyzstan mobile operator Nur Telecom, working under the O! brand, has expanded the coverage of its LTE network in the Jalal-Abad, Osh, Talas, Issyk-Kul and Chuy regions, as well as in the city of Bishkek...
 
UTL preparing for 4G launch
State-run fixed and mobile operator Uganda Telecom Ltd (UTL) says it is close to finalising its deployment of 4G LTE networks in Uganda's major cities...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
SK Telecom installs 5G-PON for RAN radio access network
South Korean operator SK Telecom installed 5G-PON (Passive Optical Network) for distribution networks, which can deliver both LTE and 5G communications services…
 
ITU to study machine learning in 5G
According to the International Telecommunication Union, it will form a new focus group to establish a basis for ITU standardization to assist machine learning in bringing more automation and intelligence to ICT network...
 
Airtel Malawi engages customers on proper data usages
The country’s leading Smartphone and network provider Airtel Malawi on Monday launched credit data usage tips for its customers...
 
 
Middle East
 
Smart Dubai boosts ‘paperless finance’ drive
Smart Dubai has enhanced its “Paperless Finance” project to cover various Dubai Government entities, where it will fully digitize these entities’ financial operations, eliminating paper transactions…
 
Amazon, Facebook plan to boost Saudi tech sector
In order to boost Saudi Tech sector, Amazon and Facebook, as well as other international companies are interested to work in the cloud computing…
 
UAE online retailer AWOK boosts logistics ahead of Black Friday
AWOK, an e-commerce businesses from the Middle East has partnered with four courier companies in anticipation of a major sales surge...
 
Oman is the safest Arab country in fighting cyber attackers
Oman is ranked fourth on Global Cyber Security Index and first in the Arab region, but cyber security challenges due to growing technology applications lie ahead...
 
South Asia
 
Sri Lanka telecom release financial statements
Sri Lanka Telecom PLC released the financial statements of the Company and Group for the 9 months ending 30th September 2017.
 
Technology revolutionizing Bangladesh judicial system
Modern technology, like the internet, has dramatically changed the modes of retrieving information and the judicial system is no exception in Bangladesh...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Taplytics supports OTT TV app testing
To offer TV programs and movies via internet streaming, Taplytics is now offering full support for testing Over-The-Top (OTT) TV apps…
 
Nations Trust Bank of Sri Lanka partners with Daon to power mobile apps
Nations Trust Bank of Sri Lanka and Daon have announced that the bank is launching the Mobile Banking app and FriMi, its new mobile banking, payments & lifestyle app...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Gigabit broadband reaches in Laois
In order to deliver speeds up to an incredible 1 Gigabit per second, Digiweb “Electric Broadband has been launched to 65,000 premises in fourteen locations…
 
SpaceX to launch 4,000 high speed internet satellites in 2019
Elon Musk and his company SpaceX have announced that they will be sending 4,425 satellites into space that will provide high speed internet to Earth...
 
CommsMEA Awards 2017 celebrates transformation efforts in the industry
CommsMEA Awards 2017 opened to a packed house at Grosvenor House, Dubai, as various stakeholders of the telecommunications industry in the region came together for an evening of appreciation and networking...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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