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November 30, 2019

Batelco hosts digital transformation workshop for enterprise customers

In light of the Company’s role as a key player in the Kingdom’s ICT sector, Batelco held a digital transformation workshop for enterprise customers at Jumeirah Royal Saray on November 25 and 26, in collaboration with Bin Hindi Informatics, the Kingdom’s official Samsung agent...

Huawei Atlas 500 wins the top 10 Edge Computing Solutions 2019 award

At the Edge Computing Industry Summit 2019 (ECIS2019) , Huawei's Atlas 500 AI edge station won the Top 10 Edge Computing Solutions 2019 award for its compact size, superb computing power, easy deployment, and low consumption...

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5G network plays a critical role in enabling ‘Intelligent Connectivity’ empowering industries and societies

5G network forms the underlying layer to digitally transform and bring new capabilities across industries, entertainment and public services changing the role of telcos to facilitate services that will enable futuristic use...

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du and Emirates Airline Festival of Literature announce new partnership

du and Emirates Airline Festival of Literature announced a new partnership intended to bring all corners of the UAE together with some of the world’s greatest writers as they visit the Festival in 2020...

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Accenture launches myNav, cloud platform to help enterprises navigate the cloud landscape

Accenture has launched myNav, a cloud platform that helps organizations design and simulate different cloud solutions to identify the ones that best fit their specific business requirements...

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Syniverse and China Telecom Global lre-launch connectivity services to Africa for mobile operators

China Telecom Global and Syniverse have reaffirmed their strategic partnership and pre-launched a new suite of connectivity solutions to provide services for mobile operators in Africa for quickly and cost-effectively...

Policy and Regulation

•	UAE consumers not to pay extra for 5G: TRA Majed Al Mesmar, Deputy General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA), has declared that there won’t be any additional costs from consumers migrating from 4G to next-generation services...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Smart sees 82% rise in LTE data users on back of network upgrades The mobile unit recorded an 82% year-on-year increase in 4G data users in the year to 30 September 2019, boosted by the deployment of 5,500 additional LTE base stations in the first nine months of this year...

•	5G broadband introduced into five heartland communities Spark 5G wireless broadband services are now live in selected areas of Westport, Clyde, Twizel, Tekapo, and Hokitika...

Satellite & Internet

•	First Juncker Plan project in Malta brings broadband to 70,000 homes The project, to be implemented over three years, will support GO's investments targeting a fixed line and mobile very high capacity (VHC) network throughout Malta...

•	Talia expands satellite services to five African countries Talia Limited has announced the successful completion of beta testing of its Ka-band High Throughput Satellites services in additional African countries including Cameroon, DRC, Gambia, Ghana and Congo...

Global Telecom Update

•	OCK inks MoU with CITC for business collaboration on telecommunication, technology services OCK has inked a memorandum of understanding with China Information Technology Designing & Consulting Institute, to explore a collaboration in telecommunications and technology services...

•	Scotland unifies transport ticketing infrastructure Public transportation users in Scotland can now use a smart transit card issued by any of a group of 16 different bus, rail and subway operators to travel on all the services provided by any of the other members of the...

Middle East

•	Saudi ICT spending to hit US$2.13 billion in 2020 Saudi Arabia’s government organisations are expected to increase their 2020 spending on information and communication technologies (ICT) by 6.1 percent compared to the anticipated spend for 2019...

•	Dubai Press Club hosts Google’s first AI Masterclass in the region The workshop, which sought to give participants a strong understanding of AI and machine learning technologies, was attended by UAE-based journalists specialised in technology and business reporting...

•	Infor supports Bahrain’s digital transformation Global cloud software firm Infor has announced that its helping Bahraini organisations to digitally transform in line with the goals of the country’s ambitious Economic Vision 2030...

South Asia

•	Project launched in Bangladesh to connect 772 unions with broadband A project titled “Establishment of ICT Network to Remote Areas (Connected Bangladesh)” will be implemented by the Bangladesh Computer Council to bring 772 unions under broadband connectivity...

North Africa

•	Vodafone becomes first VMware verified cloud provider in Egypt Vodafone Egypt became the first cloud service provider to achieve VMware Cloud Verified status in Egypt as part of its plan to lead the Egyptian cloud market...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Disney+ tops 15 million downloads Disney+ has been downloaded more than 15 million times and generated US$5 million via in-app purchases since its launch less than two weeks ago...

•	Elisa demos VR with ‘human eye quality’ The ability to produce video with ‘human eye resolution’ and stream it over 5G could enable “perfectly natural telepresence everywhere in the world,” according to Elisa...

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