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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
March 11, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
SAMENA Council to Hold "Beyond Connectivity 2018 - In the Future" summit with Tech Mahindra
 
 
Beyond Connectivity conference 2018 and Tech Mahindra’s Annual CME Summit 2018 to bring telecom and ICT industry stakeholders under one roof in Dubai...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain Group partners with Axiata Digital’s Apigate to streamline API Hub offerings
Member Logo Zain Group has announced a strategic partnership with Apigate, a subsidiary of Axiata Digital, to procure and provide API services via Zain’s API Hub for its operating companies and end users...
 
•  Mobily launches FiberNet service with speeds that meets the needs of SME
Member Logo Etihad Etisalat (Mobily) has launched the new FiberNet service through FTTH technology, in a step aims to support Small Medium Enterprises(SME) in the business sector...
 
•  Company culture is key to unlocking gender equality, new Accenture research finds
Member Logo New research from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has identified 40 workplace factors that create a culture of equality — including 14 factors that matter the most...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• Australian communications minister approves sale process for 3.6GHz spectrum
Australia’s government has approved the sale process for 5G-suitable frequencies, confirming that 125MHz of spectrum in the 3.6GHz band will be offered via competitive auction...
 
• NCC: regulation for spectrum trading, licence transfer coming
A new flexible regulation for spectrum trading and transfer of licencee rights and obligations, from one party to another, would soon come to effect as the framework has concluded...
 
South Asia
 
• Mobitel, Commercial Bank launch data service, credit card bundle in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka mobile operator Mobitel has partnered with the Commercial Bank of Sri Lanka to offer a services bundle that includes credit card and data connection...
 
• Digital system vital to reach the unbanked
According to various stakeholders, a digital financial system is vital to bring Nepal’s large unbanked population into the formal financial sector so that they can have access to financial services...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• 3 Hong Kong’s five-band carrier aggregation LTE goes live this month
3 Hong Kong and Huawei have announced the completion of 2100MHz band re-farming to enable the launch of an LTE-A network upgrade utilising carrier aggregation (CA) across five distinct licensed frequency bands...
 
• T-Mobile CTO says more low-band LTE upgrades have been rolled out
T-Mobile has added low-band LTE to hundreds of cell sites in two weeks...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• YouTube adds more livestream features
Google has added new features to YouTube’s live streaming capability that it says will make live streams more accessible by helping users to search, interact with, and watch live videos on the platform...
 
• Vivacom sees IPTV success
Bulgarian telco Vivacom grew its TV base by 9% last year to end 2017 with 447,000 pay TV customers, of which 46% took its IPTV service, up from 42% a year earlier...
 
 
Middle East
 
• DIFC inks deal to develop tech for VC ecosystem
Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP) to facilitate exchange of information on the latest trends in the finance industry, with a focus...
 
North Africa
 
• Ooredoo Algeria launches Sahla Box LTE-based plans for B2B and residential customers
Ooredoo Algeria has added the Sahla Box packages to its range of LTE-based broadband offers for B2B customers, following the recent launch of this proposition in the residential market...
 
• Google adopts Kenya’s M-Pesa for payments on Playstore
Google has announced the adoption of M-Pesa as a mode of payment in its games and app store to tap into the massive mobile buying power of Africans...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• Optus to build fiber network for 2018 Commonwealth Games
Australia's Optus Business has teamed up with Cisco to build the smart network which will be used to connect next month's Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games to the world...
 
• Telekom enables 100Mbps broadband for 750,000 more homes
Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed and mobile operating unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), has expanded its VDSL vectoring network to an additional 745,000 households...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• Telenor backs internet of things research lab
The CEO of Telenor has opened a laboratory for internet of things (IoT) research and development in the city of Trondheim...
 
• Bath and Bristol secure funding to trial 5G
Tourist destinations in Bristol and Bath have secured funding from the government to trial a 5G network...
 
• Canada poised to launch emergency alert system on smartphones
A system to alert Canadians to natural disasters and other public safety emergencies via their smartphones is another step closer to reality...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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