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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
February 27, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Renowned Industry Leaders Elected to the SAMENA Council Board of Directors during the General Assembly in Barcelona
 
 
The South Asia - Middle East - North Africa region’s premier telecommunications industry association, SAMENA Council, has announced the election of Mr. Osman Sultan, CEO - du, Mr. Ahmed El Beheiry, CEO & MD - Telecom Egypt, Mr. Tarig Hamza Zain Alabdeen, CEO - Sudatel, Mr. Marwan Hayek, Chairman & CEO - Alfa Mobile, and the re-election of Mr. Scott Gegenheimer, CEO of Operations - Zain Group, and Eng. Salman Al Badran, CEO - Viva Kuwait to the SAMENA Council Board of Directors...
 
Saudi Telecom Company launched an extraordinary participation in MWC, Barcelona
 
 
STC launched an extraordinary participation during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2018 in Barcelona, Spain from Feb 26th, to March 1st, 2018, in presence of STC board chairman Abdullah Al-Abdulqader, STC's then-Group CEO, Dr. Khaled Biyari, and several corporate executives...
 
Zain Group publishes its latest thought leadership report entitled ‘Saving Lives by Empowering People through Zain Cash’
 
 
Zain Group announces the publication of its annual thought leadership report, this year entitled, ‘Saving Lives by Empowering People through Zain Cash’...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Emirates Data Clearing House and Expresso Senegal partner to launch E-Money service
Member Logo Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH), a subsidiary of Etisalat Services Holding, announced the launch of a new suite of mobile financial services for Expresso Telecom based in Senegal, Africa...
 
•  Batelco among Founder Partners of Bahrain FinTech Bay
Member Logo Batelco, in line with its commitment to foster the development of Bahrain’s FinTech industry is proud to announce its role as a founding partner of Bahrain FinTech Bay (BFB)...
 
•  VIVA main sponsor of NUKS UK’s annual conference
Member Logo VIVA announced its sponsorship of the annual conference of the National Union of Kuwaiti Students (NUKS) - United Kingdom branch...
 
•  Huawei launches full range of 5G end-to-end product solutions
Member Logo At the World Mobile World Congress (MWC) held in Barcelona, Spain, Yang Chaobin, President of Huawei 5G Product Line, unveiled a full range of end-to-end (E2E) 3GPP-compliant 5G product solutions...
 
•  Cisco releases 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report
Member Logo Cisco 2018 Annual Cybersecurity Report reveals security leaders rely on and invest in automation, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence to defend against threats...
 
•  Nokia, Intel and Verizon collaborate on new virtualized RAN architectures on path to commercialization
Member Logo Nokia, Intel and Verizon are collaborating on new groundbreaking Cloud RAN architectures to provide the flexibility needed for the operator's future services and requirements for 4G, 5G and IoT in the cloud...
 
•  Facebook overtakes YouTube on mobile video front
Member Logo While remaining the most popular mobile video platform, online behemoth YouTube is seeing real competition, with Facebook rapidly closing the gap, and even overtaking it in some markets...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  UAE ranked as global leader in Fiber Optic Network for a second year in a row
 
•  Cybersecurity Provider KoolSpan Joins SAMENA Council as New Member
 
•  Etisalat, Ericsson and Intel launch ‘Driving the Future of 5G Innovation' university competition
 
•  Telecom Egypt joins SAMENA Telecommunications Council as a Member
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Ofcom approves six bidders for upcoming frequency auction
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has confirmed that six companies have qualified to participate in its forthcoming spectrum auction, which it expects to start in late-March...
 
Middle East
 
Etisalat forms consortium of Global Technology Leaders to introduce 2nd generation SDN/NFV cloud
Etisalat announced its plans of working with a consortium of global technology leaders to introduce a new vendor agnostic platform that will aim to provide cloud telecom infrastructure to host emerging futuristic...
 
Turkey targets US$13 billion in e-Commerce in 2018
Turkey aims to increase the volume of its e-commerce to $13.2 billion by the end of this year...
 
Booming fintech industry takes spotlight in Dubai
Held in partnership with the UAE Ministry of Finance, and showing off the latest products in action as well as boosting the UAE as an international hub for fintech, FinovateMiddleEast opened on 26th February and runs for two...
 
North Africa
 
Orange starts deploying LTE-A services in Morocco
Orange Morocco announced on Twitter that it has started rolling out LTE-A network upgrades enabling theoretical speeds of 500 Mbps...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Openserve’s million-home fiber push
Telkom’s Openserve has shifted its focus on fiber-to-the-home from “homes passed” to the number of homes connected...
 
Global household internet access nears 50%
The number of households connected to the internet has improved by 8.3% to just under half (48.6%), according to the latest Inclusive Internet Index from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)...
 
 
South Asia
 
Banglalink's 4G to reach all district HQs by June
Banglalink aims to provide 4G mobile services in all district headquarters by June this year, reaching about 30 percent of the population...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
YouTube goes local with location tagging for uploads and live streams
YouTube now allows creators to tag their video uploads and live streams with locations, which in turn makes it possible for viewers to find videos and streams by location...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
NetNumber expands private LTE Network solution ecosystem
NetNumber has announced a collaboration with SiRRAN Communications, a telecommunications software and services company specializing in global mobile network software solutions...
 
Brunei scores high in 4G speed, availability
Brunei Darussalam’s 4G speeds are much faster compared most of its Southeast Asian neighbours, according to a report published by UK-based wireless coverage mapping specialist OpenSignal...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Telecom26 launches global Wi-Fi roaming services using Emirates Data Clearing House Wi-Fi hub services
Telecom26 has partnered with Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH) - Middle East’s largest Data and Financial Clearing House to launch global Wi-Fi roaming services to support its connectivity platform enabling Global...
 
Governor of CITC: proud of STC’s investment in Saudi youth
“STC’s participation was special”, His Excellency the Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission, Dr. Abdulaziz bin Salem Al Ruwais, quoted describing the participation of STC in...
 
Thailand sets sights on spearheading IoT alliance
The Digital Economy Promotion Agency (Depa) says Thailand is planning to lead an international Internet of Things (IoT) alliance, strengthening the potential of the country's IoT initiative that will be driven by...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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