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August 31, 2020

stc recognizes Ministry of Interior for their stand during curfew period

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc recognized, in a gesture of appreciation, the strenuous efforts and diligent organization made by the Ministry of Interior and Kuwait police force since the COVID-19 outbreak...

Member News

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Batelco partners with SonicWall to launch integrated security solutions for SMEs

Batelco has announced its exclusive service provider partnership with SonicWall to provide SMEs (Small and Medium Enterprises) with comprehensive security solutions to enhance cyber-security for their customer base...

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BT Sport makes women's football available to more fans

BT Sport is gearing up for its biggest season of women’s football, with more Barclays FA Women’s Super League (WSL) matches broadcast than ever before and the season’s opening match made available to all by...

Policy and Regulation

•	TRA organizes a virtual discussion on “The Role of Women in the ICT Sector” The discussion focused on the professional and practical experiences of women working in the ICT sector, and the professional development that they have achieved in this vital field...

•	Govt names 17 broadband providers to join NBN Co in national coverage regime CipherTel, Interphone and OptiComm are among 17 broadband providers freshly designated by the federal government as Statutory Infrastructure Providers (SIPs) under the government’s national SIP regime...

South Asia

•	Visa, Daraz join hands to promote digital payments in Pakistan The campaign aims to empower and support small businesses in Pakistan adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic by providing access to the Visa Small Business Hub...

•	High-speed internet in Rohingya camps restored Mobile phone operators in Bangladesh restored high-speed internet connectivity in Rohingya camps in Tekhnaf and Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar nearly a year after restricting the services...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Mavenir supports Vodafone switches on OpenRAN 4G site Vodafone UK has become the first UK mobile operator to switch on an OpenRAN 4G site, partnering with Mavenir...

•	China Broadcasting Network gets funding injection for 5G rollout China Broadcasting Network Corp has received investments of more than CNY100 billion (US$14.5 billion) from 47 companies, including 11 new investors...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Vodafone adds DAZN to TV platform in Germany Vodafone Deutschland now offers sports streaming service DAZN as an app on its TV platform GigaTV...

•	Samsung TV Plus aims to get on tune with Qwest TV As the platform continues to add to its growing portfolio, Samsung TV Plus has added three new music-focused channels from Qwest TV to its roster, automatically installed on all 2016-2020 Samsung Smart TVs...

Middle East

•	Zain KSA offers world’s first 5G carrier aggregation feature Zain KSA announced the launch of the carrier aggregation feature for its 5G network, which enables ultra-fast Internet speeds of up to 2.4 Gbps, in line with releasing the latest 5G router that supports this technology...

•	Jordan's A.R.E.A launches new app in 12 Arab countries A.R.E.A aims to build and launch the largest number of mobile apps in order to become the biggest platform able to provide its clients with the latest programming, development, and marketing techniques for their services and...

•	New electronic transactions platform launched in Oman Oman Data Park has launched the 'My signature' platform for electronic signature and electronic document management in line with the regulations in force in the Sultanate for electronic signature of documents...

North Africa

•	Egyptian Education Ministry partners with Orange to launch e-classes Through this agreement, Orange will provide the cloud infrastructure necessary to operate and manage the platform whose fees can be paid via smartphone, using Orange cash...

Satellite & Internet

•	120,000 Christchurch customers are benefitting from fiber broadband speeds Christchurch fiber broadband network provider, Enable, now has over 120,000 local homes, businesses and schools connected to its fiber broadband network...

•	Sky Italia to add Fastweb FTTC to 'Sky Wifi' coverage Satellite broadcaster Sky Italia will shortly be extending the coverage of its recently-launched ‘Sky Wifi’ fixed broadband service by adding Fastweb’s FTTC network assets throughout the country...

Global Telecom Update

•	Dev kit speeds LTE connectivity for IoT apps Avnet introduced the Monarch Go Pi HAT, a new development kit to help product engineers and network developers enable simple, cost-effective LTE connectivity for IoT solutions...

•	NTT adds Megaport POP in Hong Kong The new Megaport PoP at NTT Ltd.’s Tai Po Data Center is an expansion from the existing PoP at the company’s Financial Data Center in Hong Kong...

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