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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 8, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Paltel Group Joins Leading Operators to Promote its Digital Readiness as a SAMENA Council Member
 
 
SAMENA Telecommunications Council has announced that Paltel Group has joined as its operator member. As the largest private-sector company in Palestine, Paltel Group is embracing the future with a new, innovative spirit, centered on providing greater quality and variety of integrated telecoms services to its subscriber base and on realizing greater operational efficiencies as well as stakeholder value...
 
For the first time, more than half of the world’s population is using the Internet
 
 
ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), estimates that at the end of 2018, 51.2 per cent of the global population, or 3.9 billion people, will be using the Internet...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  China Mobile International joins Etisalat’s SmartHub to expand its ME services
Member Logo Etisalat and China Mobile International Limited (CMI) have come together to establish point of presence at Etisalat’s SmartHub Data Centre in UAE, improving CMI’s reach across partners in the region and meeting...
 
•  Telecom Egypt and Liquid Telecom Sign MoU as Part of Egypt FDI Initiative
Member Logo Telecom Egypt, Egypt’s first integrated telecom operator and international connectivity provider, and Liquid Telecom, the leading pan-African telecoms group, announce the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)...
 
•  Nokia and China Mobile Research Institute launch industry-first commercially ready 5G hybrid indoor radio solution
Member Logo Nokia and China Mobile Research Institute launched the industry's first hybrid indoor radio solution with location services to meet 5G connectivity demands...
 
•  Intel and Huawei achieve world‘s first 2.6GHz 5G interoperability testing under SA
Member Logo Intel and Huawei announced that they have successfully completed 2.6GHz 5G NR Interoperability and Development Testing (IoDT) based on the 3GPP Release 15 global standard September version...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  NHK partners with Eutelsat for the launch of the world’s first 8K channel
 
•  VIVA inaugurates its flagship store at Marina Mall
 
•  Digital Economy fuels, facilitates and works as a catalyst in the Knowledge Economy
 
•  Batelco hosts telecommunications briefing session for Al-Khawarizmi Primary Boys School students
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• BTRC bars mobile packages with less than 7-day validity
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has scrapped all the voice and data packages and offers of the mobile phone operators with up to 6 days validity...
 
• Dubai's RTA working on autonomous mobility, AI projects
Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is working on a series of projects related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous mobility, and shared mobility/transport including the Dubai Sky pods...
 
• Saudi Communications & Information Technology Commission hosts roundtable meeting on Managing Internet Resources in Arab Countries
The RIPE Network Coordination Centre (NCC) held recently roundtable meeting in Saudi Arabia, hosted by the country’s Communications & Information Technology Commission (CITC)...
 
Middle East
 
• Beam goes global after major retail acquisition
Dubai-based mobile payments platform Beam will expand into seven new markets next year, seeking international growth in the increasingly competitive and fragmented payments sector...
 
• RAK SmartPay launched as integrated e-payment system in Ras Al Khaimah
RAK SmartPay is a unified central payment platform that enhances accessibility to e-government services...
 
• Oman signs cybersecurity deal with World Economic Forum
It aims to explore opportunities for building a non-exclusive collaboration towards promoting cybersecurity...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• ETECSA officially launches 3G internet for Cubans
Cuba’s state-owned telecoms operator ETECSA has officially launched 3G mobile internet access for pre-paid customers...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• Digicel to switch on fiber to businesses in Bermuda
Digicel Bermuda is launching its ‘fiber-to-the-business’ (‘FTTB’) service and ‘looking to empower all businesses’ with what it terms ‘incomparable high speed data...
 
 
South Asia
 
• PTCL embarks on network transformation project
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), has embarked upon a massive network transformation Project (NTP) under which PTCL plans to upgrade 100 exchanges across Pakistan,..
 
• Hutch Lanka completes merger with Etisalat Lanka
CK Hutchison has completed the merger of its operations in Sri Lanka with Etislat Lanka, the subsidiary of Emirati based Etisalat...
 
North Africa
 
• North African demand for feature phones surges in Q3
There is huge demand for feature phones in the North African mobile phone market, comprising Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco, according to the International Data Corporation...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• Ivi goes on Roku
Russia’s leading OTT service ivi is now available to Roku users in the US, Canada and UK...
 
• Comcast rolls out Amazon Prime Video on X1
Amazon Prime Video will be integrated into the X1 guide, letting customers browse the Prime Video catalogue on Xfinity on Demand...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• Docomo, Metawave demo meta-structure technology for 5G
Japan's NTT Docomo has completed a joint 5G demonstration in collaboration with Metawave Corporation involving the use of a world-first meta-structure reflect-array technology...
 
• Myriota promises first real-time direct-to-orbit IoT
Adelaide based startup Myriota has become the third satellites-for-IoT operator in the past month to launch its first nanosatellites and is differentiating itself by claiming to be building the world’s first real-time,...
 
• For the first time, more than half of the world’s population is using the Internet
ITU, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies (ICTs), estimates that at the end of 2018, 51.2 per cent of the global population, or 3.9 billion people, will be using the Internet...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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