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June 21, 2020

Verizon Business expands Virtual Network Services portfolio with Cisco’s ENCS

Verizon Business is expanding its Virtual Network Services (VNS) portfolio for enterprise customers with the introduction of Cisco’s 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS)...

Member News

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Investments in telecoms and health system pay dividends as Saudi Arabia eyes economic turnaround

The key part that sustained investments in Saudi Arabia’s digital infrastructure have played in helping to successfully contain the spread of the coronavirus and keep the Kingdom’s economic diversification plans...

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Batelco announces participation in the AWS Marketplace CPPO

Batelco has announced its role as a Consulting Partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace, the fast-growing online software store that helps thousands of AWS customers accelerate project success and innovation...

Policy and Regulation

•	ITU will launch 2020 Guidelines on Child Online Protection (COP) with key recommendations to keep children safe online The International Telecommunication Union will launch new 2020 Guidelines on Child Online Protection on how to contribute to the development of a safe and empowering online environment for children and young people...

•	Portuguese 5G consultation resumes Portugal’s National Communications Authority has confirmed that its unfinished 5G consultation process has resumed, as the country’s ‘state of emergency’ is no longer in force...

South Asia

•	Grameenphone brings VoLTE to offer better 4G services in Bangladesh Grameenphone has introduced voice over long term evolution (VoLTE) technology, saying that it would help its 4G users enjoy enhanced audio, wider data coverage and better telecom services across the country...

•	Hutch cliQ expands on 4G Hutch Sri Lanka has enhanced its popular cliQ app enabling all its 078 & 072 subscribers to enjoy unlimited Internet experience on its nationwide Bigger and Better 4G network...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Far EasTone aims to have 5G cover 50% of population Far EasTone Telecommunications aims to expand its 5G coverage to potentially cover up to 50 percent of the nation’s population by the end of this year, after its service debuts early next month...

•	Deutsche Telekom’s 5G network reaches 16 million people German operator Deutsche Telekom is already proving 5G coverage to 16 million people in over 1,000 towns across Germany, the carrier said in a release...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Vectra expands VOD service According to Vectra, its VOD offer consists of almost 13,000 titles including feature films, series, programmes documentaries and cartoons, with several hundred new productions added each month...

•	BARB launches beta BVOD planner BARB has announced the launch of a beta BVOD planner that is designed to help agencies and advertisers plan campaigns across BARB-reported commercial broadcasters’ linear channels and VOD platforms...

Middle East

•	SCT, Dunes Middle East sign MoU to provide satellite, VSAT services Space Communication Technologies has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dunes Middle East for providing satellite communication and VSAT services...

•	UAE Ministry of Health launches COVID-19 virtual information centre in 5 languages The move comes as part of the precautionary and preventive measures taken by the UAE government to battle the spread of COVID-19 and to strengthen the mechanism for assessing health cases, as well as to curb the spread of...

•	AI, Big Data accelerate Bahrain’s COVID fight Enlisting Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in COVID-19 fight has helped Bahrain ‘save precious time’ and combat the pandemic in a better way...

North Africa

•	Study projects 50% growth in e-commerce amid COVID-19 in Egypt A policy paper by the Institute of National Planning (INP) has found that the demand for e-commerce in Egypt has increased due to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic...

Satellite & Internet

•	DCMS secures operator commitments for gigabit rollouts in new builds Commitments from British network operators to work with housing developers to provide gigabit-capable connectivity to all new build developments across the UK have been secured in UK...

•	Satellite-enabled SD-WAN service deployed in South Sudan RCS Communication in South Sudan, has adopted SES Networks’ SD-WAN service that will enable RCS to deliver an improved user experience while optimising resiliency and bandwidth usage...

Global Telecom Update

•	Viettel among investors of new high-speed under-sea cable ADC The telecom giant Viettel announced it is among the members of a consortium developing a high-performance under-sea cable connecting Vietnam, China, Japan, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand...

•	Helium to expand Internet of Things network in Europe and Asia The internet of things (IoT) focused company – Helium – announced the launch of trackers that can be detected for several miles replacing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth devices...

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