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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
June 22, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat and Ericsson showcase 5G demonstrations in UAE
 
 
Following a series of major breakthroughs in 5G, Etisalat has collaborated with Ericsson to showcase emerging 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) trends, technology updates, Artificial Intelligence and automation in a unique technology roadshow...
 
Batelco Gold Sponsor of 100 years of Formal Education Forum
 
 
A management team from Batelco has attended the “100 Years of Formal Education Forum”, organized by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in the Company’s capacity as Gold Sponsor...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  STC Group launches 5G commercial services in Saudi Arabia
Member Logo STC Group has officially announced the launch of 5G commercial services in Saudi Arabia as the first operator in the Kingdom to provide this service commercially...
 
•  WWE® and BT Sport announce new partnership
Member Logo WWE® and BT Sport have announced a new multi-year exclusive pay TV agreement that will make WWE’s weekly flagship programming available live in the U.K. and Ireland on BT Sport beginning January 2020...
 
•  AT&T named the nation’s fastest and most reliable wireless network by PCMag
Member Logo Based on PCMag results, AT&T’s wireless network performed better in more cities and across more regions than any other provider, and offered the best experience in all rural areas measured...
 
•  New Sersat and SES Satellite TV platform to enable easy content delivery across Latin America
Member Logo Pay TV operators, content owners and broadcasters to leverage new content distribution platform on SES-14 satellite to reach millions of pay TV subscribers across the region...
 
•  Nokia Bell Labs, Amber researchers formulate new battery design for 5G world
Member Logo Researchers at Nokia Bell Labs and AMBE have created a new, innovative formula for battery composition that makes batteries more powerful by packing 2.5 times the battery life than anything currently on the market...
 
 
 
 
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Policy and Regulation
 
The level of 5G radiation in Bahrain does not exceed 1% of the level allowed internationally
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority’s (TRA) initiated an exercise to measure the level of emissions produced by radio-communications stations of mobile telecommunication operators that have successfully...
 
TRA welcomes Microsoft cloud services in UAE
Hamad Obaid Al Mansoori, TRA Director-General, has said that the launch of Microsoft cloud services in the UAE confirms the country's leading role in the ICT sector and as one of the world's leading hubs of digital...
 
South Asia
 
Pakistan Post and Finja join forces to introduce digitized services
Pakistan Post and Finja Pvt Ltd have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to digitize their services in order to benefit the people...
 
Child Safe Net launches cyber safety awareness campaign in Nepal
Child Safe Net has launched the “Stop Think and Connect” cyber safety awareness campaign in Nepal this month and has set up a Nepal web-site to provide cyber security awareness messaging...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Telstra deploys private LTE network in PNG volcanic crater gold mine
The mining services arm of Telstra has completed and switched on a private LTE network for Newcrest Mining at its Lihir gold mine in Papua New Guinea...
 
APT looking to raise funds for potential 5G network deployment
Taiwan’s Asia Pacific Telecom (APT) has said that it is seeking capital to fund a possible future network deployment...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
fuboTV extends deal with Discovery
OTT streamer fuboTV is adding more live and on-demand entertainment content, in English and Spanish, thanks to a multi-year carriage agreement with Discovery...
 
Czech TV revamps top HbbTV app
The Czech public broadcaster Ceska Televize (CT) has launched a new version of its most visited HbbTV app iVysilani...
 
 
Middle East
 
Space Hellas to provide telecom services in Jordan
The Space Hellas facility provides telecommunication services and interconnection with broadband telecommunications providers, bringing Jordan to Europe and its Space Hellas nodes in Greece, Cyprus, Malta, Serbia and...
 
Consumer data exchange firm launched in UAE
Combining proprietary software and hardware solutions, the company’s ecosystem serves as a data exchange platform, connecting consumers with businesses...
 
UAE IT firms back public cloud for future tech
Integrating different future technology solutions together on one digital platform can deliver a major business benefit, according to global technology company SAP...
 
North Africa
 
Tunisia gets US$175 million loan for digital transformation
The World Bank reported that it has granted Tunisia two loans both worth US$175 million to finance two projects in digital transformation and economy...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Ethio Telecom building fiber along new 754km rail line to Red Sea at Djibouti
Ethio Telecom is working with its neighbour in Djibouti to run a fiber link from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia...
 
SaT5G reports successful demos of 5G over satellite use cases
Fifth-generation (5G) mobile communications delivered over satellite are set to benefit the maritime industry as demonstrated in trials by the SaT5G project...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Colombia set to reach 66.2 million mobile subscriptions by 2023 as 4G becomes the leading technology
With 60.8 million mobile subscriptions at the end of 2018, Colombia accounted for approx 8.5% of total mobile subscriptions in Latin America...
 
Kudelski Group and Sequans create a secure connectivity solution for LTE-M and NB-IoT devices
When combined with a SIM card or eSIM personalized with the Kudelski Root of Trust, the joint solution provides robust device identity and protects the device, data, decisions, commands and actions...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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