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July 4, 2020

BT appoint Sky Media to sell BT Sport advertising inventory

BT and Sky have agreed a new multi-year partnership that broadens and deepens their strong commercial relationship. Sky Media, the advertising sales arm of Sky, will now sell advertisements and sponsorship across all BT Sport channels in the UK...

South Africa’s 5G spectrum auction comes a step closer

The telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), now seems to be ready to make 5G spectrum available at auction...

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“Forbes”: stc Group ranked 1st as top Telecom Company in the MENA Region

According to the recent publication by international Forbes magazine, Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc) announced the parent company (stc Group) ranked 1st amongst the top telecom companies in the MENA region...

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Tech Mahindra appoints Ram Ramachandran as Senior Vice President and Head for Middle East & Africa

Tech Mahindra has announced the appointment of Ram Ramachandran as Senior Vice President and Head for Middle East & Africa region...

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Huawei’s 5G equipment delivers mighty speeds for MTN in Johannesburg

MTN, this week, successfully launched it’s superfast 5G next generation mobile network across major cities in South Africa, including Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth...

Policy and Regulation

•	Egypt’s Ministry of Public Business Sector leads digital transformation Organisations are turning to technologies that provide reliable insights to help them better support their employees, customers, and suppliers...

•	South Africa’s 5G spectrum auction comes a step closer The telecommunications regulator, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), now seems to be ready to make 5G spectrum available at auction...

South Asia

•	Huawei launches multiple smart devices in Sri Lanka These five devices are all set to revolutionize the Sri Lankan market with their own unique features, raising the bar in terms of performance, productivity and efficiency...

•	Bangladeshi startup Dataful receives Amazon grant Dataful plans to develop web and mobile apps based on open data, easing people's access to information about services for all sectors...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	4G connection launched at nine stations of Kyiv metro 4G internet has been launched at 9 stations of the Kyiv metro, according to a press release issues by the metro...

•	Far EasTone to invest in 5G technology Far EasTone Telecommunications plans to spend up to NT$30 billion (US$1.01 billion) on 5G network deployment over the next three years...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Akado creates integrated broadband and streaming bundle with Okko Russian service provider Akado has forged a partnership with OTT TV provider Okko that will seek the Okko service offered in a bundle with Akado broadband access...

•	STARZPLAY available from UPC Switzerland UPC is the first telecommunications provider in Switzerland to integrate the STARZPLAY streaming service...

Middle East

•	Thuraya users to benefit from network modernisation As a result, Thuraya can provide consumers more flexible and easy-to-use communication services integrated with various terminals, which will work seamlessly when they move between different access points...

•	Final phase of selecting Orange Coding Academy second batch to start soon Orange Jordan announced that the final phase of the selection process of the second batch of Orange Coding Academy will kick off on July 6th...

•	Iran pushing for August 5G launch in Tehran Iran’s market leader, state-run MCI (Mobile Communication Company of Iran), has been given a deadline of early September to begin providing 5G coverage in Tehran...

North Africa

•	BCP Group & Huawei join forces in Africa Morocco’s BCP banking Group has partnered with Chinese telecom giant Huawei to provide various e-banking and mobile banking services to their clients in the African continent...

Satellite & Internet

•	T-Mobile FTTH to cover three Eindhoven districts The Primevest Communication Infrastructure Fund and T-Mobile are targeting the rollout of gigabit fiber to at least 100,000 households in the Netherlands this year...

•	Liquid Telecom delivering VSAT connectivity to mbora in Malawi Liquid Telecom is providing its managed VSAT connectivity services to mbora, a pioneering social enterprise in Malawi...

Global Telecom Update

•	Estonian telecom Telia Eesti building solar park at data centre Telecommunications company Telia Eesti AS said it has started building a solar park to power up its data centre in Laagri, a suburb near the capital city Tallinn...

•	IP Infusion releases Virtual SD-Edge for Cloud-based Secure Routing IP Infusion announced the general availability of its Virtual SD-Edge router in the Azure Marketplace and as a VM image for private cloud or x86 based virtual environments...

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