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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
February 17, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
Batelco Chairman reviews the readiness of Batelco’s 5G network
 
 
Batelco Chairman Shaikh Abdulla bin Khalifa Al Khalifa visited the company's Training Centre to review the company's readiness for the fifth generation technology and future plans developed by Batelco to enable it to deliver products and services, based on 5G technology which will be introduced gradually over the next three years internationally...
 
Orange Jordan inaugurates its customer service center at the new location
 
 
The new location will enhance the company’s communication and increase its efficiency in managing its relationship with its customers, responding to their needs, and providing them with the company’s offers and services in a more effective way.
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Omantel taps Optiva for next digital transformation phase
Member Logo Omantel gains increased flexibility to create and tailor new products specific to its customers, launch new offerings to market faster and engage with a larger variety of customers and businesses to generate greater business...
 
•  Eutelsat selected by Afghanistan Broadcasting System to provide capacity for new DTH platform
Member Logo Afghanistan Broadcasting System will use EUTELSAT 53A’s Ku-band resources over Central Asia to provide nationwide coverage for the launch of its new DTH platform, Oqaab HD+...
 
•  Telecom Operator in Turkey joins hands with Huawei to build a 5G-oriented all cloud core network
Member Logo Telecom Operator in Turkey announced that it will join hands with Huawei to build a 5G-oriented all-cloud core network. This Project will launch the largest Cloud EPC Network globally, and this will be the first Core Network...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  The 8th edition of the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards has crowned two new continental overall winners
 
•  Batelco celebrates Bahrain National Sports Day 2019
 
•  Etisalat Information Services launches UAE’s first ‘aggregator of aggregators’ app
 
•  Clementvale Baltic OÜ becomes an ITU member to pioneer innovative technologies in telecom
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
NBTC signs with BBL, AWN for mobile ID app
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bangkok Bank and Advanced Wireless Network, for development of a mobile ID application, the electronic identity...
 
NTRA licences Etisalat Misr to provide triple-play services in compounds
The National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has granted the mobile network operator, Etisalat Misr, a triple-play telecom licence that allows the firm to provide mobile and landline services, high-speed...
 
Middle East
 
Bee'ah and Hamriyah Free Zone Authority partner to launch Sharjah's first blockchain platform
The HFZA Waste Permit Portal is the first platform in Sharjah that utilises blockchain technology to validate, process and store transactions...
 
Smartphone application launched to improve public agencies' services in Saudi Arabia
The Watani application, available for iPhone and Android devices, offers around 80,000 services provided by more than 30,000 government service centers...
 
South Asia
 
Dialog and LECO to launch Sri Lanka's first IoT based smart-grid solution
The solution, developed in collaboration with the Dialog Mobile Communications Research Lab at University of Moratuwa, converts a standard electronic meter into a smart meter which can maintain a prepaid wallet to facilitate...
 
Bangladesh to enter 5G era through Teletalk
Fifth generation (5G) mobile technology will be rolled out by the state-owned mobile operator Teletalk in Bangladesh before any other telecom operator...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
DCMS sets out new strategy to boost FTTH and mobile network infrastructure
The new strategy calls on Ofcom to ensure that its forthcoming 700MHz spectrum auction focuses on "materially improving mobile coverage across the UK, particularly in rural areas and on the UK’s major roads," as the...
 
MARii opens first satellite in Sabah
The MARii Satellite Sabah houses advanced product design, process design, data analytics and special training facilities, developed to immediately allow participation of Sabahans in advanced technology applications...
 
 
North Africa
 
Globacom partners with Huawei to empower 30 institutions, 150 students in Nigeria
Globacom and Huawei Technologies have recently planned to reward a hundred and fifty (150) Nigerian students across thirty (30) institutions within the country with high-end smartphones and fast internet service...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Telaria, ZypMedia forge OTT deal
The supply-side video advertising platform Telaria is partnering with the local-focused demand-side platform ZypMedia in an effort to bolster the over-the-top video ad options for local media companies...
 
AMC, T-Mobile strike content deal for Slovakia, Czech Republic
The deal builds on the two companies’ existing partnership by providing carriage of AMCNI CNE’s full portfolio of networks to Slovak Telekom’s Magio and Digi Slovakia and T-Mobile TV Czech Republic...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Hutch (Lanka) and BOI ink US$115 million deal to strengthen 4G network
Hutchison Telecommunications Lanka has signed a supplementary agreement with the Board of Investments (BOI) to invest US$115 million to roll out its islandwide 4G network and support the growth of data and broadband in Sri...
 
Globe to launch 5G services in late Q2
The Philippines' Globe Telecom will press ahead with plans to launch 5G in the second quarter...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Airtel improves rural network coverage
Airtel Malawi has intensified rural areas network towers installation in a bid to improve coverage as an overall economic development strategy of the country...
 
GSMA calls on Europe to safeguard network security and competition in the supply of telecom infrastructure
As with 4G, robust competition amongst network infrastructure suppliers is essential to European operators’ ability to deliver innovative services to European citizens and businesses at competitive and affordable...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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