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October 12, 2020

BT confirms new long-term home at state-of-the-art offices in Manchester

BT Group announced that the landmark New Bailey development, close to Manchester city centre, will be its primary new home in the city and provide a future-fit workplace for thousands of colleagues...

Member News

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stc and Rakuten Mobile sign a MoU

stc and Rakuten Mobile Sign a Memorandum of Understanding With the signing of this MoU, stc and Rakuten Mobile aim to accelerate the delivery of mobile network services through the use of open technology that will...

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Diversified Computing: Open innovation for shared success

At HUAWEI CONNECT 2020, Huawei announced that it will open up the full-stack Kunpeng and Ascend and launched the distributed diversified computing software suite to the industry...

Recent Developments

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Cisco, Qwilt and Digital Alpha define the future of content delivery with new open caching solution for service providers

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Huawei signs MoUs with partners to boost 5G deterministic networking industry development

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Zain partners the 14TH edition of MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab Startup competition

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FirstNet cell sites launching nationwide to support public safety

Policy and Regulation

•	Norwegian passive infrastructure portal to come on stream in Q1 2021 Norwegian communications regulator Nkom said it has chosen the consultants Egde and Norkart for the contract to established a website mapping passive infrastructure to support broadband expansion...

•	Uzbek president issues digital strategy decree, including 2022 universal broadband target Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has issued a decree ‘On approval of the Strategy Digital Uzbekistan 2030 and measures for its effective implementation’...

South Asia

•	SLT partners with Land Maark Engineering to provide telecom solutions SLT will be instrumental in facilitating the infrastructure and all its telecommunication services to Land Maark Towers and the occupants of the buildings...

North Africa

•	Orange makes Africa data and roaming pledge Orange committed its support to the Smart Africa Alliance’s One Africa Network project pledging new investments in Africa, to upgrade quality of service and data security for customers in the continent...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	STV Player to offer more content The free, UK-wide service STV Player has announced a significant increase in content for the fourth quarter...

•	Telefónica launches Fortnite Living app on Movistar+ Telefónica has announced a partnership with Epic Games to bring the Fortnite Living app exclusively to its Movistar+ TV platform...

Global Telecom Update

•	Spark and NNNCo team up to create a roaming trans-Tasman LoRaWAN network It's an Australian and New Zealand Internet of Things network setup with integration of NNNCo enterprise platform into Spark's core...

•	SKT launches AI-powered voice call application SK Telecom, South Korea‘s top mobile carrier, has launched an artificial intelligence-powered voice call application...

•	Kyivstar launches beta testing of open platform for interacting with business products The mobile operator Kyivstar has launched the beta testing of the Kyivstar Open Telecom (KOT) project for testing API products based on mock data...

Middle East

•	WizShops teases with first of its kind platform in the UAE and Egypt With promising e-commerce growth in the region and to counter the impact of the pandemic, a lot of businesses are now looking to diversify their revenue model to include online stores...

•	Nabd and Huawei partner to provide personalized Arabic news to Huawei smartphone users in MENA Nabd provides personalized Arabic content for Huawei smartphone users in the MENA region via “Huawei Assistant” and “Huawei Browser”...

•	Fintech Galaxy and GIZ launch the Arab Virtual Hackathon The hackathon aims at developing digital solutions for speeding up the financial inclusion of local communities and businesses in the region...

•	Iran to send new telecommunication satellite into orbit Iran has made major achievements in space technology and satellite construction over the past years...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Loon, HAPSMobile deliver LTE from fixed-wing aircraft in stratosphere HAPS Mobile and Alphabet’s Loon has delivered the world’s first LTE connectivity from a fixed-wing autonomous glider during a recent test flight...

•	Optus opens 5G mobile service to partners Optus is claiming to have become the first telco in Australia to offer 5G mobile service access to its wholesale partners...

Satellite & Internet

•	Wireless ISP Wildanet to deploy FTTP broadband Wildanet has revealed that they’re looking to branch out into building a Fiber-to-the-Premises network that would cater to homes and commercial premises in urban and rural areas...

•	O2 launches first commercial 5G satellite lab in the UK to test autonomous vehicles The laboratory is open to companies looking to explore next-generation connectivity solutions for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) using both 5G and satellite communications...

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