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January 5, 2020

Labor Ministry partners with STC for digital transformation

The Ministry of Labor and Social Development and the STC Group have signed an MoU for strategic partnership in several areas and benefit from each other’s experiences to achieve their respective goals, which are in line with the Kingdom’s Vision 2030...

Member News

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Facebook to announce fourth quarter and full year 2019 results

Facebook announced that the company's fourth quarter and full year 2019 financial results will be released after market closes on Wednesday, January 29, 2020...

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Philippine telcos form joint venture, select Syniverse to enable mobile portability services

Syniverse, the world’s most connected company, was chosen by the Philippine mobile operators through a rigorous technical and commercial evaluation process, to be the mobile number portability service provider...

Policy and Regulation

•	Ofcom releases database of Amateur Radio Call Signs Following a Freedom of Information request, Ofcom has made its database of amateur radio call signs available for download...

South Asia

•	NTA, NT seal deal for installing optical fiber The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) and Nepal Telecom (NT) have signed an agreement to expand optical fiber along the Mid-Hill Highway in the Karnali and Sudurpaschim States...

•	Robi’s r-ventures 2.0 invests on digital start-ups Robi’s flagship digital entrepreneurship platform, r-ventures 2.0 has recently concluded with the holding of the Investment Day programme...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Gracenote debuts unified programming guide for streaming video Gracenote, a metadata and automatic content recognition technology company owned by Nielsen, is debuting a new unified programming guide for streaming video services...

Global Telecom Update

•	South Korea, Denmark & Iceland lead ICT Development Index The Republic of Korea (South Korea), Denmark and Iceland lead ITU ICT Development Index (IDI) a composite measurement that ranks 167 countries according to their level of ICT access, use and skills...

•	Deutsche Telekom Taps SAP S/4HANA to Transform Internal IT Systems Deutsche Telekom announced that it is transforming its own internal IT systems for a quicker network build-out and better customer logistics...

Middle East

•	Vivo continues to gain momentum in Africa and Middle East Since its announcement in late July 2019 to expand into the region, vivo has successfully entered 14 markets including Egypt, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and The United Arab Emirates (UAE)...

North Africa

•	Morocco's mobile internet base rises 9% in Q3, mobile connections up 3% Morocco reached 24.5 million mobile internet subscriptions at the end of September, up 8.8 percent year-on-year, according to the latest statistics...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Lifecell tests 3G and LTE networks in Dnipro metro Ukrainian mobile operator Lifecell has started testing its 3G and LTE networks in the metro of the city of Dnipro...

•	Poland's Cyfrowy Polsat begins 5G roll-out Poland’s Cyfrowy Polsat said that its Polkomtel unit had begun the roll-out of commercial 5G technology and aimed to start serving seven cities in the first quarter...

Satellite & Internet

•	CNT and ISP association APROSVA agree deal to boost rural internet access Ecuador’s state-owned operator CNT and the ISP grouping APROSVA have agreed a deal to gradually lower internet access prices in rural areas...

•	Japan-backed ADB fund to aid internet infrastructure project in Asia-Pacific nations The project will extend low-cost, high-speed internet availability through a communications satellite to more than 2 billion people living in island nations in the region where internet use lags because of inadequate...

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