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April 9, 2018

Omantel inks strategic pact with Muriya

Muriya has signed a strategic partnership with Omantel, to offer Hawana Salalah and Jebel Sifah destinations with Omantel’s suite of voice and data offerings...

Viva Bahrain in deal to upgrade Menatelecom network

Viva Bahrain and Huawei, have signed a system and network transformation contract to upgrade Menatelecom’s network infrastructure...

Member News

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STC is no longer a conventional telecom provider, but an enabler of digitization: Al Nasser

Nasser Al Nasser, STC GCEO, confirmed that STC is working on Digitization through huge investments in infrastructure within Broadband project, in cooperation with Ministry of CIT...

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Batelco warns customers to be on the alert for fraudulent calls promising cash prizes

Batelco alerted its customers to be aware of fraudulent calls informing them that they have won a large sum of money...

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du expands smart home product portfolio with TP-Link

du will offer the TP-Link's range of smart home, smart bulb and smart IP camera products to its customers across the UAE...

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Nokia ranked #1 in China Mobile central bid, will provide transport network to support data center interconnect and future 5G services

Nokia announced that China Mobile ranked it #1 in a central bid to supply equipment for its regional optical transport network, with deployment of the new network having already started...

Policy and Regulation

•	Malta allocates 800MHz and 2600MHz spectrum The Malta Communications Authority (MCA) has awarded five licences in the 800MHz and 2600MHz bands to the country’s three mobile network operators (MNOs)...

•	UAE and Bahrain's telecommunications authorities discuss cooperation The General Authority for Regulating the Telecommunications Sector, TRA, has received a delegation from the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in Bahrain...

•	Spectrum slot surge on the NBTC agenda The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) plans to allocate 380 megahertz of downlink and uplink slots through four spectrum ranges by 2020...

South Asia

•	Pakistan IT industry advancing rapidly According to official data Pakistan’s IT industry has exhibited positive growth trends for the last four years with 100% growth in export earnings...

•	STAX launches digital offering STAX announced the launch of a new suite of digital solutions geared towards unleashing the full potential of Sri Lankan corporates...

3G and 4G Networks

•	Ukraine LTE launch attracts 1 million users in first week Around 1 million Ukrainian mobile subscribers used LTE services in the first week after the launch of 4G networks in the country...

•	New station to connect community A second mobile telecommunications base station has been erected in Norseman in what has been dubbed a “game-changer” for network coverage in the Goldfields town...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	BBC inks key Russian OTT/VOD deals BBC Studios has signed a number of content sales agreements with leading digital platforms in Russia...

•	Kenyans can now connect M-PESA cccounts to PayPal PayPal and Safaricom announced a new collaboration that will enable people living in Kenya to move money between their M-PESA and PayPal accounts...

Middle East

•	UAE tops GCC nations in 4G speed UAE has topped its neighbouring GCC countries when it cames to 4G speeds, where it averaged 27.47Mbps...

•	Memorandum of Understanding between the Saudi Cyber Security Union and VirtuPort VirtuPort will participate in the activities of the Saudi Federation for Cyber Security and Programming...

•	Alibaba Cloud expands into Turkey Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, and E-Glober announced a partnership to bring powerful, reliable and cost-effective cloud computing products and services to the Turkish market...

North Africa

•	"Freelance Tunisie" announces launch of freelancing website in Tunisia Zouza.co is a Tunisian crowdsourcing marketplace website, which allows potential employers to post jobs that freelancers in Tunisia can then bid to complete...

•	Central African Republic starts fiber network supported by EU and AfDB The Central African Republic has launched a national fiber optic network project, which is being funded by the European Union and the African Development Bank (AfDB), which are also co-financing the Trans-Saharan Fibre-Optic...

Alternative Telecom

•	Small telcos band together to push for NBN market share Macquarie Telecom, MNF, Amaysim, MyRepublic, Vocus, Inabox, Southern Phone, TasmaNet, and others have announced banding together to form Commpete, with a goal of attaining 30 percent NBN market share...

Global Telecom Update

•	Rakuten to build mobile network Japanese e-commerce group Rakuten has got the go-ahead to build its own telecom outfit...

•	Telefonica deploys ASSIA’s CloudCheck Wi-Fi solution ASSIA (Adaptive Spectrum and Signal Alignment) announced the widespread deployment of ASSIA’s CloudCheck software solution for Wi-Fi monitoring and optimization...

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