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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
June 25, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Abu Dhabi Police saves US$353 million from digital services
Abu Dhabi Police has reportedly processed 4,462,784 digital transactions last year, which has enabled savings of up to US$353 million (AED1.3 billion) and 9.5 million client visits...
 
Egyptian e-health startup ElBalto launches mobile consultation service
Egyptian startup ElBalto has launched a mobile application that provides users with easy, reliable, timely and affordable online video consultations via a network of customer-rated and licensed doctors...
 
FCC publishes draft rulemaking notice to promote flexible use of C-band
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has issued a draft copy of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) yesterday which solicits comment on proposals to open the 3.7-4.2 GHz band to terrestrial fifth-generation (5G) wireless services...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Batelco sponsors 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee
Member Logo Batelco has announced its support for the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee, which began 24th June and will run until 4th July at the UNESCO Village located at the Ritz Carlton Hotel...
 
•  PCCW Media Limited delivers live UHD HDR coverage of world-class sports events with Harmonic
Member Logo Harmonic announced that PCCW Media Limited is delivering 4K live coverage of world-class sports events using an UHD HDR solution from Harmonic...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Ofcom begins radio deregulation consultation
Ofcom has begun a consultation process to evaluate the ‘localness’ guidelines for local commercial radio broadcasters...
 
FCC publishes draft rulemaking notice to promote flexible use of C-band
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has issued a draft copy of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) yesterday which solicits comment on proposals to open the 3.7-4.2 GHz band to terrestrial fifth-generation (5G) wireless services...
 
Middle East
 
Turkcell opens new data center in Izmir
TurkcelL announced the opening of its data center in Izmir – as part of the strategy to secure data in its home market...
 
Abu Dhabi Police saves US$353 million from digital services
Abu Dhabi Police has reportedly processed 4,462,784 digital transactions last year, which has enabled savings of up to US$353 million (AED1.3 billion) and 9.5 million client visits...
 
North Africa
 
Egyptian e-health startup ElBalto launches mobile consultation service
Egyptian startup ElBalto has launched a mobile application that provides users with easy, reliable, timely and affordable online video consultations via a network of customer-rated and licensed doctors...
 
Algeria’s Mobilis confirms bid for Mali’s fourth mobile licence
Mobilis, the cellular division of state-backed Algerie Telecom, has lodged an application to compete for the fourth mobile operator licence in Mali...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Openreach rolls out ultrafast broadband to 59 new locations
Openreach has unveiled 59 new locations that will benefit from ultrafast broadband, adding to the existing 46 locations around Britain...
 
KT unveils ICT-based emergency rescue platform
KT has unveiled its disaster and safety management platform based on the firm's distinguished network infrastructure and ICT strengths...
 
 
South Asia
 
Pakistan's PakTES-1A satellite to launch in July
Pakistan will be launching PakTES-1A, a remote sensing satellite (RSS), in July of this year...
 
Sri Lanka's John Keells IT to accelerate business innovation with Microsoft
Microsoft recently announced a strategic partnership with John Keells IT to accelerate John Keells Holdings' Digital Transformation journey as well as enable them to build on this value proposition as a Partner across...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery join forces to create German Hulu
ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery join forces to build the leading German OTT platform by integrating their existing streaming venture 7TV, video-on-demand service maxdome and Eurosport Player in one place...
 
World Cup boosts Kwesé iflix service
The Fifa 2018 World Cup tournament has been a boon for the uptake of Kwesé iflix, Econet Media’s recently launched video-on-demand service, which offers top sports and entertainment content on mobile phones,...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Movistar reaches one million 4G subscribers in Venezuela
Movistar Venezuela, the country’s second largest cellco by subscribers, has extended the reach of its LTE network to three further cities, with its 4G network now surpassing one million subscribers...
 
Ucell continues 3G, LTE network expansion
Uzbekistan mobile operator Ucell continues the expansion of its 3G and LTE networks, adding 76 3G base stations and eight LTE base stations in the period 4 June to 17 June...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Mobile operator 3 Hong Kong plans to deploy cloud-based network by early 2019
3 Hong Kong, the mobile telecom arm of Hutchison Telecommunications Hong Kong plans to deploy a fully cloud-based core network by the first quarter of 2019, as it tries to steal a march on debuting 5G mobile services in the...
 
Beeline and Ericsson launch pilot zone for IoT solutions in Moscow
Russian telecom PJSC Vimplecom Beeline has launched a trial zone in a residential area of Moscow, Russia in partnership with Ericsson...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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