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April 17, 2018

Etisalat teams up with Indra to enhance its Digital Solutions Portfolio

Etisalat announced its partnership with Indra to enhance and widen its Digital Solutions portfolio in multiple sectors, allowing both parties to share best practices...

Member News

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STC network readiness checked at King Abdulaziz airport in Jeddah

STC Jeddah District and in cooperation with General Authority of Civil Aviation visited King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah and checked on the readiness of STC Network...

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Huawei six-country Middle East roadshow ‘Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation’ kicks off in Abu Dhabi

First New ICT roadshow across the region to demonstrate how all-cloud network, convergent campus, all-flash storage, and Intelligent Video Surveillance will strengthen the region’s digitalization...

Policy and Regulation

•	FICORA extends DNA’s licence to apply roaming surcharges The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) has confirmed it has renewed DNA’s licence to apply surcharges to its subscribers’ roaming consumption in EU and European Economic Area (EEA) countries...

•	PTS holds 700 MHz auction regulation meeting on 04 May Swedish telecoms regulator PTS is holding a meeting on 04 May where it will provide information about the rules that will apply in the 700 MHz spectrum auction that has a preliminary starting date of 04 December...

Middle East

•	STC Business signs MOU to seek opportunities for blockchain technology Riyadh S. Muawad - Key Accounts VP, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CONSENSYS, which aims to seek the available opportunities to transfer the technology of Blockchain to Saudi Arabia...

•	Technology has transformed every aspect of life in UAE The explosion of smartphone ownership in the UAE in the past 10 years, coupled with the country’s high internet penetration and government bodies’ readiness to embrace technology, has transformed nearly every...

•	MENA’s OTT market poised to be 50% of pay TV by 2020 The online subscription videos currently stands at around 25 percent of the pay TV business in the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region...

South Asia

•	Mountainise introduces new trends in AI sector in Pakistan Pakistan based Mountainise is introducing new trend in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning...

•	Walton launches another 'Made in Bangladesh' smartphone Walton has launched another 'Made in Bangladesh' labeled smartphone 'Primo F8' which has been manufactured at the mobile phone plant of Walton Digi-Tech Industries...

Alternative Telecom

•	Open Fiber extends partnership with Vodafone to bring FTTH to 271 Italian cities Open Fiber is extending its collaboration with Vodafone for the development in Italy of ultra-wideband connectivity services for fibre to the home (FTTH)...

•	TIM Brasil launches 2Gbps FTTH in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro TIM Brasil has inaugurated a 2Gbps fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service in selected parts of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro...

North Africa

•	Algeria's Sonatrach to invest in digital technology, solar power Algeria has to find solutions for raising its reserves, including using digital to reduce costs and optimise its output...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Vivicast snags MAVTV OTT rights Vivicast Media has inked over-the-top (OTT) and alternative technologies distribution rights for the MAVTV Motorsports Network in the US and Caribbean...

•	Sygic rolls out Smart Mobility Platform for improved traffic management Sygic, a GPS navigation app with over 200 million users worldwide, has unveiled its Smart Mobility Platform for cities...

3G and 4G Networks

•	Airbus pushes mission-critical standard solutions for 5G networks The 3rd Generation Partnership Project’s pursuit of a complete mission-critical standard solution moves on: a plug test in the US in June 2018 will verify the latest results...

•	KDDI, Nokia complete V2X trials in Japan using LTE broadcast KDDI and Nokia announced that they have successfully demonstrated the use of LTE in Japan to deliver cost-efficient, low-latency connectivity for vehicles...

Global Telecom Update

•	Rogers and Ericsson partner in bringing 5G to Canadian cities Rogers Communications Inc. announced a multi-year 5G network plan that includes working with Ericsson, a North American leader in 5G deployment, to test the high-speed network in Toronto, Ottawa and other select cities over...

•	MIA Telecoms unveils new cloud telephony solution MIA Telecoms, the sole distributor of Samsung telecommunication and PABX equipment in Sub-Saharan Africa, has introduced an enterprise cloud telephony solution...

•	Qualcomm unveils new platform for IoT devices Qualcomm Technologies has launched the Vision Intelligence Platform, featuring its first family of system-on-chips (SoCs) purpose-built for the Internet of Things using advanced 10-nanometer FinFET process technology...

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