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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 3, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
STC Participates to Strengthen Saudi Arabia’s Presence in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018 in Dubai
 
 
Saudi Telecom Company(STC) Group, represented on behalf of its Group CEO, Eng. Nasser Al Nasser, by Eng. Zyad AlKhwaiter, GM - Regulatory Affairs, has ensured its active participation in the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2018, currently being hosted by Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA) in Dubai, UAE. STC is also supporting the CITC during the ITU elections...
 
VIVA Bahrain to introduce eSIM technology
 
 
VIVA's innovative eSIM service offers flexibility and convenience by enabling customers to use both SIM card slots available in their Apple devices, such as iPhone Xs, Xs Max or Xr...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Batelco Group announces 2018 third quarter financial results
Member Logo Batelco announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2018, the three month period ended 30 September 2018 (Q3) and for the first nine months of 2018. In line with the promising figures announced for the first six...
 
•  Etisalat sponsors 3rd ‘Emirati Women – Future is Now’ Conference
Member Logo Etisalat ​announced its sponsorship of the ‘Emirati Women – Future is Now’ 2018 conference and exhibition on 1st November in Abu Dhabi. The event will be held under the theme ‘Emirati...
 
•  Zain main sponsor of Kuwait International Rally 2018
Member Logo Zain, has announced its main sponsorship of the Kuwait International Rally 2018 organized by Kuwait International Automobile Club (KIAC) in collaboration with the Public Authority for Sport and Basel Salem Al Sabah Motor...
 
•  BT claims positive momentum in first half
Member Logo BT continued to generate positive momentum in the second quarter after reporting a 2% rise in adjusted EBITDA for its first half, thanks in part to restructuring-related cost savings...
 
•  Huawei leads home and mobile broadband products in Sri Lanka
Member Logo Huawei has emerged as the number one home broadband provider in Sri Lanka over the years according to the company...
 
•  Exercises with stock options of Nokia Corporation
Member Logo Based on Nokia Corporation's 2011 Stock Option Plan a total of 41 500 Nokia shares were subscribed for between September 25 and October 29, 2018. The subscription price was EUR 2.08 per share for 19 000 shares and EUR...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Du signs network services tie-up with China’s CCS
 
•  Bubbletone and SIMYO to launch a pilot project
 
•  Etisalat wins ‘Best Nationalisation Initiative’ award in the GCC private sector
 
•  ITU Plenipotentiary Conference brings more than 2500 ICT decision-makers together from around the world
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
4 firms get mobile phone tower sharing license
The firms are edotco Bangladesh Tower Company Limited, TASC Summit Tower, Kirtankhola Tower Bangladesh Limited and AB HiTech Consortium Limited...
 
Spain to stage 700MHz 5G auction in 1Q19
Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez has indicated that the government intends to auction spectrum in the 694MHz-790MHz band in the first quarter of 2019, with a view to supporting the country’s 5G deployments...
 
South Asia
 
Telecom attracts 1.5m new users in three months
The subscriber base of cellular mobile operators of Pakistan has recorded a reasonable growth as they attracted around 1.5 million new customers to their networks in the first quarter of the current fiscal year...
 
NT’s 4G expansion likely to gather pace soon
Nepal Telecom’s plan to expand 4G service throughout the country is likely to gather pace soon, as CIAA has given a green signal to resume the stalled work...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Globe on track for 95% LTE coverage by year end
The Philippines' Globe Telecom has announced it is on track to reach its target of extending LTE coverage to 95% of cities and municipalities in the nation by the end of the year...
 
Three UK brings LTE-A to major cities
Three UK has switched on carrier aggregation on almost 3,000 sites across the country, potentially increasing speeds by as much as a third...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Nedap launches Narrow Band Internet of Things parking sensor for new 5G cellular networks
Netherlands-based parking and vehicle detection technology company Nedap has launched a new NB-IoT (Narrow Band Internet of Things) version of its SENSIT smart parking sensor...
 
Telefonica expands Voice in the Cloud service in Latin America
Telefonica’s wholesale business unit has announced the addition of geographic numbers for Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico and Panama to its global SIP trunk service, Voice in the Cloud...
 
 
Middle East
 
Vodafone Turkey offers 'V by Vodafone' IoT products
Vodafone Turkey became the 7th Vodafone operator to start selling consumer-oriented IoT products from Vodafone's 'V by Vodafone' range...
 
Oman- Sas48H challenge launches in Oman
The event will be held at the Bank Muscat headquarters to promote entrepreneurship culture and innovation spirit in the ICT field...
 
Al Zarooni Group, Crypto Bulls launch cryptocurrency exchange
Al Zarooni Group, Crypto Bulls, and Gulf Coin Gold (GCG) have partnered to launch the first officially registered cryptocurrency exchange in the United Arab Emirates...
 
North Africa
 
Etisalat Misr and MediaTek launch voice and video calling in MENA
Etisalat Misr and MediaTek have announced the commercial launch of next generation voice and video calling technologies (VoLTE & ViLTE) for the first time in the Middle East and Africa...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
York Press launches York-E digital learning platform with MMT Digital
York Press has launched a brand new innovative digital platform, York-E, which aims to bring digital to the forefront of the education sector...
 
Conviva reports 54% growth in live TV streaming
Video measurement and analytics company, Conviva, measured 54% year-on-year growth in global live TV streaming in the third quarter...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
KT launches 10Gbps-capable broadband service
KT Corp has announced that it will begin offering a broadband internet service with downlink speeds of up to 10Gbps from 1 November, making it the first of South Korea’s operators to commercialise such speeds...
 
BT Openreach pushing ahead with ultrafast broadband
The UK telco reported it had passed almost 2 million ultrafast premises to date with a further 13,000 being passed every week...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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