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March 21, 2018

SAMENA Council Delivered Operators’ Perspectives at ITU’s World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS 2018) in Geneva, Switzerland

SAMENA Telecommunications Council delivered telecom operators' perspectives on financing mechanisms to accelerate Digital Transformation during the WSIS Innovation Track held on 19 March 2018 and highlighted and delivered key priorities to bridge the Digital Divide in SAMENA Region in a Policy Statement submitted during the WSIS High-Level Policy Track on “Bridging Digital Divides”, held on 20 March 2018...

Member News

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Batelco marks the occasion of Bahrain’s Mothers’ Day

Batelco has marked the occasion of Mothers’ Day in Bahrain with a visit to retirees at Muharraq Social Welfare Centre to distribute gifts...

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Zain Jordan signs partnership agreement with EQUIIS

Zain Jordan has finalised apartnership agreement with EQUIIS Technologies which allows Zain Jordan to offer its enterprise clients access to the EQUIIS Secure Enterprise Communications platform...

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Etisalat AGM approves full-year 2017 dividends of 80 fils per share

At Etisalat’s annual general meeting, held at the company’s headquarters in Abu Dhabi, shareholders have backed the board’s recommendation to pay full-year 2017 dividends of 80 fils per share...

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Industry consortium successfully tests blockchain solution developed by Accenture

A consortium comprising AB InBev, Accenture, APL, Kuehne + Nagel and a European customs organization has successfully tested a blockchain solution that can eliminate the need for printed shipping documents and save the...

Policy and Regulation

•	TRA opens centre to monitor mobile network coverage The UAE's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has officially launched a Coverage Centre that detects the quality of mobile network coverage in the UAE...

•	SIGET opens public consultation for 1900MHz, AWS spectrum auction El Salvador’s Electricity and Telecommunications Superintendency has launched a public consultation on its plans to hold the auction of 140MHz of mobile spectrum in the 1900MHz and 1700MHz/2100MHz bands...

Middle East

•	InfoFort's CBK Soft and Ark Technology collaborate to advance e-signature technology CBK Soft has announced its cooperation with Ark Technology to boost e-signature usage and its adoption in the region...

•	Nigeria looks up to Turkey to develop satellite market The Nigerian Communications Satellite Ltd, NIGCOMSAT, is engaging Turkish satellite operator, Turksat A.S on the possibility of expanding their market across various industries to deepen services at more affordable rates...

South Asia

•	Mobitel to enhance enterprise mobile security Sri Lanka operator Mobitel has teamed up with IBM to enhance enterprise mobile security in Sri Lanka....

•	Chinese vendors make gains in the Bangladeshi smartphone market Smartphone shipments in Bangladesh grew by 20.6% year-on-year during 2017 to reach a total of 8.1 million devices...

3G and 4G Networks

•	LG Uplus to use iBasis IPX for LTE roaming South Korea's LG Uplus has signed an agreement to use the iBasis IPX network to enable LTE roaming services...

•	Smart strengthens nationwide lead in LTE speed PLDT wireless arm Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) has further strengthened its lead in LTE download speeds nationwide and in all major regions in Philippines...

North Africa

•	Jumia Egypt aims to sell 80,000 phones during Mobile Week E-commerce company Jumia aims to increase its sales of mobile phones to 80,000 during its Mobile Week from 30,000 during the same event in 2017...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	HD Austria reaches 125,000 customers HD Austria, M7 Group’s hybrid DTH television platform for Austria on Astra (19.2° East), now reaches 125,000 customers...

•	German envia TEL launches IPTV with Ocilion German regional network operator envia TEL has opted for the IPTV wholesale solution from Austrian service provider Ocilion...

Alternative Telecom

•	Salt enters fixed broadband market Swiss mobile provider Salt has announced its entry into the fixed broadband market with the launch of an aggressively-priced triple-play bundle, undercutting its competitors by a substantial margin...

•	Rostelecom to launch broadband in North Ossetia villages Russian national operator Rostelecom will launch its broadband services in five villages in the Republic of North Ossetia by October...

Global Telecom Update

•	Alibaba Cloud launches Indonesia data center Alibaba Cloud has commenced operations for its first data center in Indonesia, which will offer a comprehensive suite of cloud products and services ranging from elastic computing, database service, networking, security and...

•	Vodafone works on backend operations for 5G network Vodafone Fiji is laying the ground work for the fifth generation mobile network...

•	Dialog and Ideamart host Sri Lanka's first ever NB-IoT Hackathon Dialog Axiata in collaboration with Ideamart, hosted Sri Lanka's first NB-IoT Hackathon (NB-IoT: Narrowband Internet of Things)...

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