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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
March 15, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
Mobily partners with SAP to digitally transform experiences for millions of customers
 
 
Mobily will deploy Sales Cloud, part of SAP C/4HANA customer experience suite, with five industry-leading cloud solution portfolios to foster business innovation, integration, and agility...
 
Free browsing on educational sites for Batelco’s fixed home broadband customers
 
 
Batelco has announced some great news for its Fixed Home Broadband Customers. In order to support distance learning and home schooling during the current school closures due to the Coronavirus...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Omantel partners with Ericsson to manage its multi-access mobile networks
Member Logo As per the deal, Ericsson will provide a fully managed end-to-end multivendor operations service to include nationwide network operations, field support and maintenance for Omantel's fixed-line access, 2G, 3G, 4G and...
 
•  stc: 3,000 employees are working remotely during the next two weeks
Member Logo stc responded to the precautionary measures taken by relevant government entities to address the threat of Coronavirus and prevent its spread, by declaring that more than 3,000 employees began working remotely for a period...
 
•  Accenture helps Changi Airport Group establish and operate a digital factory to drive and sustain continuous innovation
Member Logo Accenture has helped Changi Airport Group which operates the world’s seventh busiest airport for international traffic establish and operate a digital factory to continuously re-invent the airport’s passenger...
 
•  Tech Mahindra and Bharat Electronics collaborate to design and build cutting edge digital solutions for aerospace & defence

Member Logo Defence PSU, Bharat Electronics Limited and Tech Mahindra have aannounced a collaboration to design and build cutting edge Digital Solutions for Aerospace and Defense...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  AT&T and Google Cloud team up
 
•  ITU reschedules two key conferences to protect staff, speakers and delegates in the face of the threat of the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus
 
•  New converged SDN transport solution by Cisco enables PLDT to unleash the full potential of 5G for a superior customer experience
 
•  OSN deploys Microsoft Advanced Threat Protection to guard against the evolving threats landscape
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
TRA attains CIPS Corporate Ethics mark
This achievement comes in light of TRA’s efforts on continuous development, contributing to achieving global leadership, excellence and developing functional competencies in ethical procurement and supply management...
 
Potraz hikes tariffs by 57 percent
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has with immediate effect approved a 57 percent upward review for voice, data and SMS tariffs...
 
South Asia
 
Telenor executes 5G trial setup in Pakistan
Telenor Pakistan executed 5G trial setup in the country to demonstrate its ability to run the latest technology on its network...
 
Free WiFi service launched in Sylhet, Bangladesh
Bangladesh has launched free WiFi service in some 62 areas through 126 access points under Sylhet City Corporation as part of the countrywide digitisation process...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Telkomsel deployed 23,000 new 4G BTS in 2019
Telkomsel built out approximately 23,000 new 4G base transceiver station across Indonesia in 2019 as part of its commitment to create a leading-edge technology network access...
 
Glasgow subway to trial 5G tunnel network
Glasgow Subway will be the first Subway to test the viability and practicality of 5G within a subterranean system...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Pluto TV reveals 55 content partnerships for Latin American launch
ViacomCBS-owned AVOD Pluto TV has announced partnerships with 55 media and content providers for its Latin America service...
 
Vodafone TV set for Czech Republic
Vodafone Czech Republic, in conjunction with UPC, plans to launch a Czech version of Vodafone TV later this month...
 
 
Middle East
 
Pilot smart city project unveiled in Oman
The Ministry of Technology & Communications has launched the Knowledge Oasis Muscat Smart City pilot project in cooperation with the Public Establishment for Industrial Estates and Omantel...
 
DEWA enhances its strategic collaboration with SAP
DEWA launched Digital DEWA as its digital arm, to redefine the role of utilities, making DEWA the world’s first digital utility to use autonomous systems for renewable energy, storage, expansion in AI adoption...
 
Edtech sector gains momentum in region
EdTech startups focus primarily on the education of students, children, and working professionals in the Middle East and North Africa, with the last few years seeing an acceleration in the investment in the space...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt advances space program with 10-year plan
Egypt is advancing its goals in space, following approval last week of a 10-year development plan for the Egyptian Space Agency (EgSA) established in August...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
NZ fiber broadband overtook copper connections in 2019
According to the latest Annual Telecommunications Monitoring Report, fiber broadband overtook copper connections as the main way households accessed the internet in 2019...
 
SpaceX to launch next 60 Starlink internet satellites
SpaceX will launch 60 new Starlink satellites to join its ever-growing broadband internet megaconstellation....
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Comcast and T-Mobile to suspend internet data caps for the next 60 days
Comcast and T-Mobile have announced suspensions of their internet data cap policies in response to the coronavirus pandemic...
 
Telefónica and Idrica will offer an IoT solution for the management of the integral water cycle
The two companies will work on the development of IoT technology aimed at companies in the water sector...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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