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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 13, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat signs agreement with ENOC Group to provide Cloud Managed Wireless connectivity across its ZOOM retail outlets
 
 
Etisalat has signed an agreement with ENOC to provide its retail outlets with Cloud Managed Wi-Fi solution....
 
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz honored Huawei with the First Place Prize of the King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award
 
 
King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness (RC) Award has honored Huawei with the first place prize of the prestigious King Khalid Responsible Competitiveness Award...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Al-Kharafi spearheads Zain’s empowerment of women with revolutionary steps
Member Logo Zain Group hosted its second annual Women Empowerment (WE) forum at the Four Seasons Hotel, Kuwait, gathering 300 female participants from across the Group...
 
•  Orange accelerates its multi-service operator strategy in Africa
Member Logo At AfricaCom, Orange presents its latest innovations to democratise access to smartphones, encourage e-education and support the startup ecosystem...
 
•  Comprehensive study of satellite television reception places Eutelsat as market leader across Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast
Member Logo A far-reaching in-depth study, led by Nielsen, of television reception throughout Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast, has positioned Eutelsat as satellite market leader within these countries...
 
•  Nokia to sharpen customer organization focus as the 5G era accelerates and announces changes in the composition of the Nokia Group Leadership Team
Member Logo Nokia announced plans to realign its primary customer-facing organization into two regional groups: one covering the Americas and the other responsible for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Batelco distributes Bahrain International Air Show tickets to staff
 
•  Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has been elected to the GSMA Board, the world's largest mobile organization
 
•  PCCW Global and Administration Committee of Hengqin New District sign collaboration agreement to foster smart city development
 
•  Zain Group reports robust third-quarter 2018 results
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
NCC clears 9mobile takeover
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has approved the takeover of 9mobile, the country’s fourth largest wireless operator by subscribers, by Teleology Holdings...
 
Government telecom unit seeks regulatory authority over ISPs, IIGs
National Telecommunication Monitoring Centre has requested Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to empower it with regulatory authority over Internet Service Providers and International Internet Gateway...
 
North Africa
 
Energizer announces growth of its mobile phone
Since last year Energizer has grown a lot, especially in North Africa from Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya and Egypt with Egypt being the biggest market in Africa for all their phones...
 
Nokia connects Africa through collaboration and innovation
This year, Nokia will showcase how it is shaping the future of technology to transform human experiences with effortless, simple and dependable technologies at AfricaCom 2018...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Telkom signs LTE roaming agreement with Vodacom
Telkom has signed an extensive roaming agreement with Vodacom to roam on its 2G, 3G, and 4G networks in South Africa...
 
Greenland fully covered with 4G
Tele-Post recently offered 4G to residents of Qeqertaq, and with this upgrade, the company can now offer 4G in all of Greenland’s populated places...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
UK's EE announces 5G launch locations for 2019
EE announced that it is switching on 5G sites in 16 UK cities in 2019...
 
True Corp expands convergence platform to cover IoT
Thailand's True Corporation has signed an expanded contract with Amdocs aimed at enhancing the operator's convergence platform to support IoT services for enterprises and consumers...
 
 
Middle East
 
Zain Kuwait partners with Bildarb app for table reservations, food collection and discounts
Zain Kuwait has announced an agreement with Bildarb, a mobile application for table reservations and restaurant order collection...
 
Zulekha Healthcare Group partners with SAP for innovative change management
Zulekha Healthcare Group has partnered with SAP in order to support and enhance its organisational efficiencies...
 
Vodafone Turkey service revenue up 15% in September quarter
Vodafone Turkey saw its service revenue increase 15.2 percent on an organic basis, supported by strong net adds in consumer contract, increased mobile data revenue, and good fixed line customer growth...
 
South Asia
 
Robi launches IoT-based smart attendance solution in Bangladesh
Mobile operator Robi has launched an IoT-based telco enterprise solution called the Smart Attendance Solution...
 
Pakistan Post launches electronic money order service
Pakistan plans to digitalize the postal services for providing modern and fastest facilities to the consumers...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
MTN to offer mobile banking in Nigeria next year
MTN Group will apply for a mobile banking licence in Nigeria and plans to launch the service there next year,..
 
DAZN to launch in Spain in early 2019
Sports streaming service DAZN has announced plans to launch in Spain early next year, having secured the rights for English Premier League football and MotoGP motorcycle racing...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Vodafone UK grows to nearly half a million home broadband users
Mobile operator and ISP Vodafone UK has reported that they added +44,000 new fixed line home broadband customers during the last quarter (Q2 FY19) to total 479,000...
 
Deutsche Telekom starts FTTH roll-out in Bautzen
Deutsche Telekom announced the start of one of the biggest publicly funded fibre network projects in Germany...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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