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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
July 7, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zain Group joins "The Valuable 500" to unlock opportunities for people with disabilities
 
 
Zain Group proudly announces its inclusion in The Valuable 500, an international initiative striving to put disability on the leadership agenda within corporates. Zain already has a well-defined and proactive diversity and inclusion program, WE ABLE, aimed at integrating people with disabilities within the company as well as improving their business social and economic prospects...
 
Broadband internet extended to remote areas in 41 districts of Nepal
Broadband internet service has been extended to various remote areas in 41 districts using money from the Rural Telecommunication Development Fund...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  AT&T is the fastest wireless network in the nation
Member Logo AT&T has the fastest wireless network for iPhones and fastest wireless network overall for Q2 2020 according to data from Ookla...
 
•  ONE Championship and Microsoft partner to further accelerate and reinvent the digital fan experience
Member Logo ONE Championship™ (ONE) and Microsoft have announced a strategic partnership to harness the Microsoft cloud, including Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, to transform digital fan experiences and enhance collaboration...
 
•  Nexign announces annual record 2019 results
Member Logo Nexign (part of ICS Holding) has announced its results of 2019 fiscal year and published its official Annual Report for 2019...
 
•  Console Connect expands on-demand direct connections to IBM Cloud across Asia, Europe and the Americas
Member Logo Console Connect has announced an expanded collaboration with IBM Cloud Direct Link to provide secure, reliable and low latency network connections to the IBM public cloud from data centers across Asia, Europe and the...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Africell officially confirmed as fourth mobile operator
Angola’s Ministry of Telecommunications & Information Technology released a statement confirming the government’s selection of Africell Holding to receive the country’s fourth Unified Global operating...
 
Free WIFI in Everest Base Camp region
The Nepal Telecommunications Authority has stepped up efforts toward this direction amid growing complaints from the mountaineers that the internet service in the region is too expensive and of low quality...
 
South Asia
 
SLT contributes technology to create online store for Sathosa
SLT has stepped forward to provide technical infrastructure in the form of developing, hosting and managing the online site on behalf of Lanka Sathosa...
 
Broadband internet extended to remote areas in 41 districts of Nepal
Broadband internet service has been extended to various remote areas in 41 districts using money from the Rural Telecommunication Development Fund...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Optus looks to invest on transportable 4G small cells
The telco revealed the planned investment in its latest sustainability report, saying that the small cells could help it provide a more effective response to natural disasters and emergencies...
 
Samsung introduces fully virtualized 5G RAN for commercial availability
Available this quarter, Samsung’s new 5G vRAN solution improves efficiency and flexibility, and simplifies management of 5G networks; software-based approach matches performance of its hardware 5G solution...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
SETAR deploys Nordija interactive TV platform in Aruba
Nordija has strengthened its presence in the CALA (the Caribbean and Latin America) market by delivering a fully integrated, end-to-end IPTV solution to Aruban operator SETAR...
 
Movistar+ adds picture-in-picture for simultaneous viewing
Movistar+ has also launched new features for its remote control, introducing a specific button for Aura, Telefónica’s virtual assistant with artificial intelligence, to interact with the Movistar+ service by...
 
 
Middle East
 
Strategic partnership between stc pay and Visa to launch a digital payment solutions
The new agreement, further builds on stc pay and Visa’s partnership from 2018, and will involve issuance of Visa payment credentials to millions of stc pay customers...
 
gig- Jordan upgrades data center with first HPE Primera roll out in Jordan
gig - Jordan has successfully completed installation of HPE Primera, an intelligent storage for mission-critical applications with the flexibility and speed of cloud applications...
 
UAE’s Mulk Healthcare launches global “e-hospital”
Mulk Healthcare, which is part of the UAE’s Mulk Holdings International, has unveiled its digital hospital project designed to bring “disruptive futuristic healthcare solutions to consumers of the GCC...
 
North Africa
 
Vezeeta partners with MSD Egypt to drive nation-wide public health awareness campaigns through cutting-edge digital solutions
The collaboration leverages Vezeeta's tech-driven solutions to empower doctors and patients with MSD's latest medical information and research-based scientific updates...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
KPN demos 8Gbps symmetrical PON fiber
KPN has announced a fiber broadband demonstration which showed an 8Gbps download/upload connection at a residential location using the telco’s PON fiber technology...
 
Thaicom, CAT Telecom form satellite business JV to support 5G and IoT/M2M services
Thaicom and CAT Telecom recently announced a satellite business joint venture in order to strengthen Thailand’s telecommunications infrastructure and to support the growth of the digital economy and satellite...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Estonia welcomes solar powered data centre
The Estonian subsidiary of Telia is building the solar power plant to power its data centre in Laagri, Estonia, an undertaking that the company estimates will pay back its investment over the next six to seven years...
 
Orange Wholesale unveils eSIM first for France
Orange said the agreement reflects its ability to provide its partners with the latest technological developments to help them compete on the French national wholesale market...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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