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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 22, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Details emerge of Afghan MOUs to boost telecom services
Further details have emerged regarding two memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed in Afghanistan on 11 August to enhance telecommunication services across the country...
 
ANRCETI invites expressions of interest in multi-band spectrum auction
Moldova’s National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications & IT has invited expressions of interest in the potential allocation of wireless frequency blocks across several TDD and FDD spectrum bands...
 
International reports reveal a gap in digital services across Arab countries
Data representing Arab countries’ digital infrastructure and internet services showed great differences when going from one country to another...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Google optimizes search engine for Swahili speakers
Member Logo Google Search has now made it possible for Swahili users to get more contextualised results of people, things and entities that Google already knows about...
 
•  Nokia licensing rate expectations for 5G/NR mobile phones
Member Logo Nokia has outlined its licensing rate expectations for 5G mobile phones...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• ANRCETI invites expressions of interest in multi-band spectrum auction
Moldova’s National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications & IT has invited expressions of interest in the potential allocation of wireless frequency blocks across several TDD and FDD spectrum bands...
 
• ACMA issues enforcement guidelines for NBN service rules
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has set out how it plans to enforce new rules on services delivered over the NBN...
 
South Asia
 
• Details emerge of Afghan MOUs to boost telecom services
Further details have emerged regarding two memoranda of understanding (MOUs) signed in Afghanistan on 11 August to enhance telecommunication services across the country...
 
• UberTuk launches in Colombo
Uber, the on-demand ride-sharing company has announced the launch of its UberTUK service in Colombo...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• Digicel network was resilient through earthquake
Digicel’s new LTE network was able to weather the impact of Tuesday’s earthquake...
 
• Kyivstar launches LTE-1800 services in Kharkiv
Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar has begun offering LTE services on the 1,800 MHz band in the city of Kharkiv, as well as in 145 settlements in the Kharkiv region...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• Docomo adopts 5G network emulation solutions
Japan's NTT Docomo has adopted 5G network emulation solutions from test and measurement solutions provider Keysight Technologies as part of efforts to accelerate its 5G commercialization...
 
• Vietnam’s Viettel Telecom joins enterprise network alliance
Vietnam’s state-owned mobile network operator Viettel Telecom is teaming up with an international coalition of network operators, the Next Generation Enterprise Network Alliance (ngena)...
 
 
Middle East
 
• SAP brings Dubai, UAE data center online
SAP has launched its first data center in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in Dubai, from which it plans to provide cloud-based services to local companies...
 
• UAE is the Silicon valley of the Middle East
Magnitt, a UAE-based startup data platform, indicates that there are 6,000 startups in the region...
 
• International reports reveal a gap in digital services across Arab countries
Data representing Arab countries’ digital infrastructure and internet services showed great differences when going from one country to another...
 
North Africa
 
• Africa’s Treon to widespread blockchain technology in the developing world
Treon (TXO), provider of the world's first “Utilities Token” that securely and seamlessly enables consumers around the world, has delivered a keynote presentation in Kuala Lumpur...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• Online TV services add 868,000 subscribers in Q2
Online TV services such as Sling TV, DirecTV Now, Philo TV and PlayStation Vue added a combined 868,000 subscribers in the second quarter, bringing the total number of virtual MVPD subs to 6.73 million...
 
• Rogers launches Ignite TV in Ontario
Rogers has launched Ignite TV, the company’s Internet-based television service based on Comcast’s X1 cloud-based TV platform...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• VodafoneZiggo tests DOCSIS 3.1 in Utrecht
Dutch cable and mobile network operator VodafoneZiggo announced on its website that it is launching a small-scale test service in Utrecht based on DOCSIS 3.1 fixed broadband technology...
 
• Cell C on the prowl for acquisitions in FTTH
Mobile network Cell C is on the prowl for acquisitions in the fledging fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) sector as it ramps up its transformation into a full-service telecoms group...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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