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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 11, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
'Building a 5G world': EITC hosts 2nd annual global certification forum 5G MENA workshop
 
 
The one-day forum was officially opened by Jasim AlAwadi, Senior Vice President - Service Operations, EITC, and explored how regulators, network operators, manufacturers, and industries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are using and developing 5G in innovative ways. With 5G now a reality in the region, the one-day event canvassed future opportunities that will arise from next generation connectivity...
 
Saudi Arabia ranks 3rd in 5G deployment globally
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Abdullah Al-Swaha, said on Tuesday that the Kingdom ranks third in 5G deployment globally after the United States and South Korea...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Etisalat launches UAE’s first ‘Unlimited Calling’ for businesses
Member Logo Etisalat announced the launch of ‘Unlimited Calling’ for business executives and professionals-for the first time in UAE-unlimited local and international calls on select plans...
 
•  VIVA Kuwait showcases its innovative 5G business solutions at the B2B 4 SME
Member Logo VIVA’s contribution at the event was through a special booth for VIVA business where the Enterprise team showcased the latest enterprise voice solutions for SMEs, including 5G Mobile Broadband, 5G Dedicated Data...
 
•  African Development Bank launches digital tool to help African youth learn to code
Member Logo The African Development Bank and Microsoft have launched the ‘Coding for Employment’ digital training platform, an online tool to provide digital skills to African youth, wherever they are across the...
 
•  Nokia builds strategic ecosystem partnership to bring 5G and IoT to enterprises in Japan
Member Logo Nokia announced that it is building out its strategic partnership ecosystem to bring local 5G/private wireless LTE to industrial and government customers in Japan...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
NCC warns consumers against unauthorised SIM swaps
The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC has warned telecom consumers of unauthorirized SIM Swap and other fraudulent activities by dubious individuals....
 
Telecoms vie for coveted band as 5G auction starts in Taiwan
The National Communications Commission of Taiwan had said it plans to release 2,790 megahertz (MHz) of bandwidth for 5G services...
 
South Asia
 
SLT Akaza adds Intelligent Cloud to SLT Akaza Cloud family
Sri Lanka Telecom has announced the addition of Intelligent Cloud to SLT Akaza Cloud family with the privilege of Microsoft partnership...
 
North Africa
 
Orval subsea cable inaugurated in Algeria
Algeria's ICT minister has inaugurated the Alger-Oran-Valencia cable system, named Orval, consisting of 770 km of fiber optics linking the country to Spain...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Mobile communications operators, Kyiv metropolitan negotiating project of launching 4G Internet in subway
Mobile communications operators Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine, lifecell and municipal enterprise Kyiv Metropoliten are negotiating technical documents and the working project to launch 4G Internet in Kyiv's subway...
 
Virgin Trains becomes first train operator to trial onboard 5G Wi-Fi
Virgin Trains has taken a step closer towards offering rail customers across the UK unrivalled onboard broadband speeds by trialling 5G connectivity on the West Coast Mainline...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
TIM strikes sporting deal with DAZN
This builds on TIM’s TIMvision on-demand service with an offer that includes national and international football alongside other sports...
 
A1 Telekom Austria Group partners with Vubiquity for new TVoD launch in Bulgaria
Vubiquity will provide A1 Bulgaria with fully managed end-to-end content management and processing services to support the roll-out of A1’s first TVoD platform in the region...
 
 
Middle East
 
Saudi Arabia ranks 3rd in 5G deployment globally
Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Abdullah Al-Swaha, said on Tuesday that the Kingdom ranks third in 5G deployment globally after the United States and South Korea...
 
Omani group in SAP partnership to boost FM services
Renaissance Services has announced a digital transformation partnership with gSAP in bid to drive efficiencies for the company and its clients through use of state-of-the-art digital platforms...
 
Saudi e-commerce startup raises US$5.6 million in funding
Dokkan Afkar, a Saudi-based e-commerce marketplace has closed a SR19 million (US$5.6 million) in Series B funding round, led by the Business Incubators and Accelerators Company (BIAC)...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Norwegian broadband provider to expand FTTH broadband services in Norway
Altibox, a Norwegian broadband provider is using BearingPoint//Beyond's Infonova digital business platform for its expanding range of services including full fiber broadband, TV and media...
 
ADB funds expansion of satellite internet in Asia Pacific
The Asian Development Bank has signed a US$50-million agreement with Kacific Broadband Satellites International Limited to expand connectivity in the Asia Pacific.
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Now Telecom lines up tower sharing partners
Now Telecom moved a step closer towards its goal of becoming the Philippines’ fourth major telecoms operator after forging tower sharing deals with Aboitiz InfraCapital and Frontier Tower Associates Management...
 
International digital money transfer transactions to reach 2 billion by 2024
A new study has found that global international digital money transfer transaction volume will reach 2 billion by 2024; up from 1.1 billion in 2019...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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