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January 7, 2020

Strategy& boosts Middle East TMT practice with two new partners

The Technology, Media, and Telecom (TMT) practice of Middle East consultancy Strategy& has been given a leadership boost for the new year with two additional partners; Karim Sarkis, who joined the firm at the beginning of 2018 (after an earlier career stint at Strategy& predecessor Booz & Company), and Lancelot Sursock, who returns to Strategy& after spending over a decade with Booz to 2015...

Member News

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du prepaid and postpaid customers now have seamless bill and recharge payment options at their fingertips with Apple Pay

du, from Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (EITC), is empowering prepaid and postpaid customers to enjoy a seamless digital telco experience with the ability to now pay their bills or recharge their accounts via...

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Accenture to acquire Symantec’s cyber security services business from Broadcom

The acquisition will make Accenture Security one of the leading providers of managed security services, further enhancing its ability to help companies rapidly anticipate, detect and respond to cyber threats...

Policy and Regulation

•	China grants 5G test license to China Broadcasting Network The Chinese government has awarded a 5G trial license to state-owned cable TV operator China Broadcasting Network with the aim of accelerating the nationwide deployment of 5G in the country...

•	Oman Ministry of Information to regulate electronic media Al Jabri stressed that the ministry has recently finished drafting a unified media law aimed at gathering various types of media under the umbrella of a single law...

South Asia

•	Zong conducts Pakistan’s first 5G video call Zong successfully completed South Asia’s first official 5G video call and also reached the speeds of over 1.5GB per second during testing...

Satellite & Internet

•	Virgin boosts broadband for a million More than one million Virgin Media customers will receive the boost that will deliver average broadband speeds of 108Mbps – around twice as fast as the UK average...

•	SpaceX adds to growing satellite broadband constellation Orbital launch firm SpaceX has launched another 60 broadband satellites to bring its total for the Starlink network to 182 satellites...

Global Telecom Update

•	Indigo Telecom Group acquires 4site to expand network design expertise The acquisition is designed to complement Indigo’s capability in the supply of multi-vendor telecom support services, by adding 4site’s design and planning expertise...

•	StarHub, Nanyang Polytechnic launch 5G test facility Singapore telco StarHub has teamed up with Nanyang Polytechnic to launch a facility that can help develop and test proof-of-concepts running on 5G networks...

Middle East

•	IBM launches 2 data centers for cloud services in UAE IBM Services has launched two IBM Data Centers in the UAE, one in Abu Dhabi and the other in Dubai, to provide cloud managed services to enterprises and help accelerate their journey to hybrid cloud...

•	Dubai’s SpiderSilk raises US$500,000 seed to help companies prevent cyber attacks Its methodologies and enhanced hackers, SpiderSilk says, allows it to achieve simulations with great impact and has helped them uncover threats that would have impacted over 120 million people in total...

North Africa

•	Egyptian tech startups participate in CES 2020 Egypt is participating through a country pavilion in the Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2020) that will feature eight Egyptian technology startups...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Polish company implements Portuguese OTT platform Insys Video Technologies has implemented a new OTT platform named Benfica Play in cooperation with GTC – Sistemas Digitais de Video...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	ZET-Mobile expands LTE in 20 regions Tajik mobile operator ZET-Mobile has announced the completion of a large-scale LTE network expansion project, installing new 4G base stations operating in the 800MHz and 2100MHz bands...

•	Poland's Play plans 5G roll-out in Gdynia in race to offer first services Mobile internet on 5G networks is expected to offer data speeds up to 50 or 100 times faster than current 4G networks and help expand connectivity...

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