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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
May 1, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat, Intel and Ericsson celebrate the winners of the 5G University Competition
 
 
Etisalat and Intel, together with Ericsson congratulated students from the American University of Sharjah for demonstrating innovative 5G use cases as part of the recently concluded university competition...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  du joins hands with NXN to provide smart energy management solutions across the UAE
Member Logo du's expertise in smart energy management as a service will help introduce advanced energy-saving solutions to UAE to bring smart energy management solutions to buildings and facilities across the UAE...
 
•  Huawei six-country Middle East roadshow ‘Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation’ held in Dubai
Member Logo Huawei is conducting a six-country roadshow across the region from April to May 2018, under the theme ‘Leading New ICT, The Road to Digital Transformation’...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• ICASA to introduce data rollover with no minimum expiry period
South Africa’s telecoms regulator the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has backed down from its draft proposals on minimum data bundle expiry periods of three years, with the final...
 
North Africa
 
• Uber to cover 50% of Egypt by end-2018
Ride-hailing service Uber plans to operate across 50% of Egyptian governorates by the end of this year...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• Blue Wireless launches enterprise-based 4G plans
Blue Wireless, which describes itself as ‘Asia’s first network independent wireless internet service provider for business users’, has launched an improved 4G LTE connectivity option for its Enterprise...
 
• UK operators make geographic 4G coverage gains
Geographic 4G coverage from all UK operators now stands at 57 percent as operators continue to improve their networks...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• Globecast, Hotwire partner for Arabic IPTV channel delivery
Seven Arabic language TV channels are being delivered to Hotwire Communications’ IPTV viewers in the US following a tie-up with media services provider Globecast...
 
• UnionPay continues to expand mobile app acceptance in southeast Asia
UnionPay International is expanding the acceptance scope of the UnionPay app to 25 countries and regions outside mainland China, according to a press release...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• Grupo MASMOVIL FTTH footprint passes 11 million homes
Spanish alternative provider Grupo MASMOVIL has announced that its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network now passes a total of eleven million homes, up from just one million this time last year...
 
• Masmovil hits 11 million mark for FTTH roll out in Spain
The company has pledged to reach 14 million properties in Spain by the end of 2018...
 
 
Middle East
 
• SAP launches public cloud data center in Saudi Arabia
Germany-based global technology company SAP has launched the first live Public Cloud Data Center in Saudi Arabia, empowering Saudi Vision 2030 and marking a major milestone in the kingdom’s digital transformation...
 
• SAMA and Deloitte to jointly develop FinTech ecosystem
The Saudi Arabian Monetary Authority (SAMA), in collaboration with Deloitte Middle East, has announced its plans to develop a Financial Technology (FinTech) ecosystem...
 
• Saudi digital entertainment company Telfaz11 secures USD 9 million funding
Telfaz11, a Saudi digital media company with 20 million YouTube subscribers on its network and an influential digital media company, said it has received a USD 9 million funding from lead investor Saudi Technology Ventures...
 
South Asia
 
• Jazzcash achieves record growth in Q1
JazzCash, a mobile financial product, has achieved record growth in its mobile account customers during the first quarter of 2018 by adding half a million customers...
 
• SLT launches digital economy knowledge sharing project
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has introduced a knowledge sharing programme dubbed 'TelcoNext - Empowering the Digital Economy, Together'...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• Three starts to prepare core network for 5G
Mobile operator Three has enlisted SSE Enterprise Telecoms to bring 20 core datacentres on-net as it prepares to start rolling out 5G...
 
• OPNFV's Fraser release brings NFV closer to cloud native integration
OPNFV is building on the foundation it has laid for integrating cloud-native into NFV with its sixth software release, which is called "Fraser."...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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