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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 3, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mobily Business Unit holds its 7th CIO Summit
 
 
Mobily Business conducted its 7th CIO Summit in London, in the presence of several IT executives from both public and private sectors in the Kingdom...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Etisalat clarifies no increase on price of recharge cards
Member Logo Etisalat has clarified that it had not increased the prices of prepaid recharge cards after the implementation of VAT in the UAE...
 
•  Nokia, T-Mobile US and Intel collaborate to bring T-Mobile's first commercial hardware based 5G 28 GHz cell on air
Member Logo Nokia, T-Mobile and Intel have reached a major milestone in their 5G collaboration by bringing a 28 GHz outdoor 5G commercial radio system on air in the busy downtown corridor of Bellevue in Washington state...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
MACRA halves mobile termination rates
The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority has initiated a cut in mobile termination rates with the aim of making retail services more affordable for consumers...
 
Trai invites inputs on new telecom policy
The telecom regulator Trai has invited public views on inputs for the proposed National Telecom Policy (NTP), which is under formulation by the government...
 
South Asia
 
Sri Lanka Telecom to deliver WiFi connectivity to subscriber base
Sri Lanka Telecom has signed a deal with Fon that will enable SLT Group to deliver WiFi connectivity to their subscriber base...
 
Nepal’s Dish Media Network furthers long term satellite connection
Nepal’s Dish Media Network has furthered its long-term connection on the Amos 4 satellite with a contract for more capacity...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Smart to expand 4CC LTE-A deployment in 2018
PLDT’s wireless arm Smart Communications plans to expand its LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) service with carrier aggregation to more areas of the country to push up mobile internet speeds in the Philippines in 2018...
 
Kolbi to inaugurate LTE-A this month
Costa Rican cellco Kolbi is set to launch LTE-A services this month...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
ONEm to launch first cryptocurrency accessible outside domain of the Internet
ONEm, based in London, is launching a unique digital currency called “m”, in collaboration with top cryptocurrency technologists...
 
Airtel Uganda hits 10 million customer mark
Airtel Uganda has started the new year by hitting the 10 million customer mark...
 
 
Middle East
 
Masterpass launched in Bahrain
CrediMax and Mastercard recently launched the Masterpass service in Bahrain for the first time by integrating the service in the CrediMax Digital Wallet - MaxWallet...
 
Equate moves to cloud platform with SAP
Equate Group announced the next phase of its partnership with digital transformation enabler SAP, in an effort to drive the company’s global business growth...
 
Local app seeks to streamline medical industry in Lebanon
TrackMD enables users to customize their search in order to identify the right practitioner according to a set of criteria...
 
North Africa
 
Telecom Egypt restores internet service after undersea cable cut
Telecom Egypt (TE) said that it has fully restored its internet services after a cut in an undersea cable had caused disruption...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Saudi Arabia to launch English-language news channel
Plans are afoot in Saudi Arabia for an English-language news channel to be jointly run by the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) and Radio and Television Corporation...
 
WeChat Pay arrives at Vietnam’s SASCO DF stores
Vietnamese mobile payment platform VIMO has partnered with Southern Airports Services Joint Stock Company (SASCO) to allow Chinese travellers in Vietnam to pay for their duty free shopping using WeChat...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
New subsea cable to connect Africa and Asia
A submarine telecommunications system may soon connect South Africa and countries along Africa’s eastern shoreline to the rest of the world...
 
Claro to invest in broadband and other services
Claro Chile is planning to invest US$ 300 million in its residential and SME division, covering the operator’s fixed broadband, pay-TV and VoD services over the next three years...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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