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February 8, 2020

SAMENA Council and TRA Bahrain Collaborate to Congregate the Regional ICT Industry in Bahrain for Deliberating on 5G & IoT

SAMENA Telecommunications Council, with the patronage of TRA-Bahrain, held its Convergence to Bahrain conference last Thursday, February 6th, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manama. Convergence to Bahrain 2020 brought together leading private-sector industry players across the Terrestrial, Satellite, and Technology domains and regionally renowned top executives to the conference...

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Government’s Meqyas report: stc has the fastest mobile internet download in Saudi Arabia

The Meqyas governmental report, issued by the Communications and Information Technology Commission, has revealed that stc registered the highest mobile internet downloading speed average in the Kingdom during Q4 of 2019 with...

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Microsoft commercial strength powers second quarter results

Microsoft returned US$8.5 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and dividends in the second quarter of fiscal year 2020...

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Nokia Board of Directors resolved to issue shares to the company and resolved on a directed share issuance for the settlement of shares under previous Nokia Equity Programs

The Board of Directors has resolved to issue 13 350 000 new shares in a directed share issuance without consideration to Nokia Corporation to be later used to fulfil the company’s obligations primarily under its equity...

Policy and Regulation

•	Regulator allows operators to begin sharing frequencies in 800-900 MHz bands to launch 4G networks The National Commission for Communications and Informatization Regulation of Ukraine has allowed mobile operators to begin eliminating fragmentation of the radio frequency spectrum in the 824-960 MHz bands...

•	SAMENA Council and TRA Bahrain Collaborate to Congregate the Regional ICT Industry in Bahrain for Deliberating on 5G & IoT SAMENA Telecommunications Council, with the patronage of TRA-Bahrain, held its Convergence to Bahrain conference last Thursday, February 6th, at the Four Seasons Hotel in Manama. Convergence to Bahrain 2020 brought together...

•	FCC reaches deal with satellite industry to free up more 5G spectrum The Federal Communications Commission has struck a deal worth billions of dollars with a group of satellite companies to free up spectrum that can be used for 5G service...

•	Digitisation of RTA projects achieves 87% of Smart Dubai targets The digitisation of Roads and Transport Authority, RTA, services has clocked 87 percent of Smart Dubai targets aimed at achieving 100 percent Digitisation of Dubai Government entities by 2021...

North Africa

•	Watch iT platform launches first original production in Egypt Egyptian SVOD and live streaming service Watch iT announced plans to launch its first original production series, titled Shadid Al Khotoura, in March...

Satellite & Internet

•	Biznet Networks completes Manado, North Sulawesi expansion Biznet Networks has announced the completion of its latest network expansion, taking in the city of Manado, in North Sulawesi Province, its inaugural foray on the island of Sulawesi...

•	Green light for UK commercial telecoms Moon mission UK satellite company SSTL has got the go-ahead to produce a telecommunications spacecraft for the Moon...

Global Telecom Update

•	U.S. Cellular launches LTE-M network optimized for IoT U.S. Cellular has launched its LTE-M network on more than 90% of its cell sites nationwide, with plans to have them 100% covered in the second quarter of 2020...

•	Vodafone, Nos exploring network sharing partnership Vodafone Portugal has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with rival player Nos to explore a potential nationwide partnership for mobile network sharing...

Middle East

•	Equinix opens new internet exchange in Oman This will create a regional peering hub for networks, content providers and large enterprises to exchange internet traffic across Middle East and global markets...

•	Saudi Aramco sees increase in attempted cyber attacks Saudi Aramco has seen an increase in attempted cyber attacks since the final quarter of 2019, which the company has so far successfully countered...

•	Dubai RTA to use big data to screen customer needs Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) plans to use big data received through customers relations management (CRM) system, call centre, website and digital media in screening customers’ reviews and trends...

South Asia

•	Nepal Telecom draws curtain on 2G Nepal Telecom has announced plans to shut down its CDMA network in the fiscal year beginning 1 July, to free up spectrum for 4G services...

•	Dialog to digitally empower senior citizens Dialog Sri Lanka has launched an initiative to educate and empower senior citizens on digital technology and build confidence and competence among the community...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Pluto TV, Hisense, Vidaa forge global partnership Pluto TV is aiming to expand its offer even further with the launch in 22 new countries through a carriage agreement with Hisense that will see the rapidly growing AVOD service embedded on the TV maker’s Vidaa...

•	ViacomCBS to expand streaming service Fresh from its merger ViacomCBS is planning on an expansion of its CBS All Access into an expanded service that would bring in assets from Pluto TV, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Pictures...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Hub One wins 4G/5G airport license Groupe ADP subsidiary Hub One has won a 10-year 4G/5G license to launch a very high-speed private mobile network covering Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Paris-Orly and Paris-Le Bourget airports...

•	Proximus announces 5G trial at the Port of Antwerp Belgian full-service telecoms operator Proximus and the Port of Antwerp have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to develop and test a private 5G network in order to evaluate potential industrial applications...

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