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April 15, 2020

Supiripola – The new E-Commerce platform joins the fight against Covid-19

As the curfew and lockdown in Sri Lanka is continuing for the last few weeks, a new eCommerce platform named Supiripola (www.supiripola.lk) is launched to ensure seamless delivery of essential items and is expanding rapidly countrywide...

Huawei recognized as a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure

Huawei is proud to announce that it was named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers' Choice for WAN Edge Infrastructure, demonstrating global customers' recognition of it for Huawei NetEngine AR series routers and CloudWAN (Huawei SD-WAN) solution...

Member News

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Arabsat announces virtual General Assembly meetings on April 16

Due to the coronavirus pandemic and inability to travel, it has been decided to hold the Board and the General assembly meetings virtually in coordination with the Jordanian administration...

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OSN unveils multi-year partnership with Intigral

This strategic partnership between OSN and Intigral significantly reinforces the collaboration at a time where TV consumption and streaming are witnessing record levels of viewership and consumption...

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Nokia and 3 Indonesia unleash more capacity for 4G customers

Nokia has deployed its 3G-4G dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS) technology in 3 Indonesia's live network infrastructure to help the operator dynamically extend its 4G bandwidth when the demand for 3G subsides...

Recent Developments

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stc Bahrain and Husn Al Jawar Society enter into a 4-year partnership for well-being of the local community

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Accenture named a Leader in IDC MarketScape on North American Strategic Consultants and Systems Integrators for Distributed Energy Resource Management Systems

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Digital entertainment in upswing amid 'stay at home' advisory over COVID-19

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Ministry of Education boosts remote learning to ensure public health and student safety

Policy and Regulation

•	MTN and Vodafone awarded additional spectrum for three months Ghana’s telecoms regulator has temporarily granted Vodafone and MTN Ghana additional spectrum to help them cope with a significant increase in internet traffic during the country’s COVID-19 lockdown...

•	PTA sends 811.97 million messages to create awareness about COVID-19 Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), under its current ongoing campaign, has sent 811.97 million messages to mobile phone users aimed at creating awareness about preventive measures against the coronavirus...

South Asia

•	Telecom company starts 4G internet services in Kabul, Afghanistan The company said that besides the 4G internet services they will invest another US$20 million to promote internet services generally...

North Africa

•	ITIDA offers digital transformation training for government leaders The intensive course, which has taken place for the first time, aims to improve the performance of government agencies, and raise the quality and efficiency of public services...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Uzmobile expanding LTE to all GSM/3G cell sites in Tashkent, other regions Uzmobile has expanded 4G LTE coverage in Uzbek capital Tashkent as well as increasing the size of the LTE frequency bandwidth utilised in the city to significantly raise cellular internet data speeds...

•	Samsung claims 4.3Gbps 5G speed breakthrough Korean tech giant’s latest lab demonstration uses MU-MIMO technology to showcase 5G’s potentially vast capacity, new radio, NR, 28GHz access unit...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	NBCU launches preview of Peacock to Comcast customers NBCUniversal (NBCU) has rolled out its new streaming service Peacock to select users in the US...

•	Zappware’s Android TV solution goes live in the Caribbean Trinidad and Tobago’s TSTT-Amplia has launched the first Android TV solution in the Caribbean...

Middle East

•	Ten digital services launched for People of Determination in UAE The Zayed Higher Organisation for People of Determination has announced the launch of ten digital services to be provided by the organisation for People of Determination...

•	Weyyak collaborates with STC Bahrain, eyes more Middle East expansion The move is part of Weyyak's ongoing expansion with TPay Mobile, its telecom aggregation partner and digital payment enabler...

•	Orange Jordan offers 100 grants to teach children coding Orange Jordan offered 100 grants for children to give them the chance to learn programming from home via Hello World Kids Company's "Hello Code" platform...

Satellite & Internet

•	Eltel inks FTTH frame agreement with Telia Finland JV Eltel has signed a three-year frame agreement between its communications business in Finland and Valokuitunen Oy, to construct fiber-to-the-home infrastructure...

•	CSS and Forsway partner to deliver affordable broadband connectivity in West Africa The partners have come together to provide emerging economies in Africa with access to affordable satellite internet services...

Global Telecom Update

•	Vodacom increases the capacity of its South African network South African operator Vodacom is to spend more than $27 million to add network capacity during the lockdown that is in place while the country tries to manage the spread of the coronavirus...

•	Ingram Micro signals IoT intent Ingram Micro will establish global centres of excellence specific to the Internet of Things (IoT), with increased emphasis on key verticals, services and solutions...

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