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Industry News Briefing
January 1, 2018

Saudi Telecom Company begins construction of largest network operation center in Middle East

Saudi Telecom Company (STC) announced the start of constructing the largest network operations center in the Middle East, in order to enhance the company’s strategy for digital transformation...

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OneWeb to fully deploy multi-gigabit global satellite network by 2021

OneWeb is launching a global 2.5 gigabit per second satellite internet service by 2021...

Policy and Regulation

•	Elections drive up Kenya's Q3 SMS and voice traffic Kenya held two elections between August and November this year, giving the telecommunications industry a huge boost with increased volume of Short Messages Service (SMS) and voice traffic...

•	South Korea to auction 5G spectrum in June 2018 The government expects fifth-generation (5G) network to be commercialized in March 2019 and deployed nationwide by 2022...

North Africa

•	Subscribers of We mobile network exceed 7 million by end of 2017 The number of subscribers of Egypt’s recently launched We mobile network has surpassed seven million by the end of 2017...

•	Telecom Egypt passes budget for the fiscal year 2018 Telecom Egypt (TE) approved its budget for the fiscal year 2018, targeting total revenue growth in the range of high single-digit to low double-digits, the company said in a statement…

3G and 4G Networks

•	LTE subscribers top 50 million in Korea The number of mobile users subscribing to the long-term evolution (LTE) network has topped 50 million in South Korea...

Global Telecom Update

•	ZTE makes global push in 5G technology By the end of 2017, ZTE has deployed over 110 Pre5G networks in more than 60 countries around the world...

Middle East

•	Amazon Web Services plans expansion into Saudi Arabia To offer its services in Saudi Arabia, Amazon Web Services is in talks with the Saudia Arabia on procuring a license to operate cloud computing services inside the country…

•	DIP workers’ units to have affordable wi-fi Dubai Industrial Park will have wi-fi connectivity across all its labour accommodation units at an affordable rate for their more than 14,000 residents...

South Asia

•	NT set to launch pre-paid system for PSTN service Nepal Telecom is planning to launch pre-paid system for its Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) service, popularly known as landline phone service…

•	Robi to provide cloud services to DataFort Bangladeshi mobile operator Robi has will provide cloud services to DataFort, which provides records management services in 19 countries including Bangladesh...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	1&1 launches digital TV service with Zattoo and ABOX42 German DSL provider 1&1 has set up a digital TV platform in collaboration with B2B service providers Zattoo and ABOX42...

Alternative Telecom

•	Record year for fiber optic expansion in Germany Deutsche Telekom is driving the broadband expansion in Germany, as the company installed 40,000 km of fiber optic cables for the first time in 2017...

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