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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 2, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
​Eutelsat successfully launches Sat.tv, its enhanced Electronic Program Guide for free-to-air channels
 
 
The service is already operating at the 7/8° West position, serving over 56 million Arabic-speaking homes across the Middle East and North Africa, and is being progressively deployed at other Eutelsat video neighborhoods...
 
Middle East leads the world in video game streaming
The UAE and KSA rank among the top 10 global markets for YouTube Gaming in terms of awareness and engagement with the platform among gamers...
 
South Korea reaches 9.25 million 5G subscribers
The number of 5G subscribers stood at 9.25 million as of the end of September, up 590,643 from the previous month, according to the report...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  The Saudi G20 to rally for innovation in digital education and providing opportunities for women
Member Logo The stc Group CEO Nasser Sulaiman Al Nasser expects that the desired core skills of some occupations are going to change in the perceived future as a result of digital transformations...
 
•  UK businesses risk lagging behind other countries with sluggish technology adoption
Member Logo The slow rate of technology adoption amongst many UK businesses could impact their ability to compete on an international scale, according to a new study by YouGov and BT.
 
•  Win-Win Future: Power Digitalization 2025
Member Logo With the rapid development of emerging technologies such as 5G, cloud, AI, big data, and the IoT, a digital transformation has kicked off, opening the digital age where things are sensing, connected, and intelligent,...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Achieving Universal Access and Creating a Sustainable Digital Economy Require First Seeing the Private Sector through a New Lens
 
•  stc to deploy phase 2 of the 5G network in 71 cities in Saudi Arabia
 
•  Mobily expects COVID-19 measures to impact telecom sector by 2020-end
 
•  Al-Nasser calls on companies to adopt plans to promote innovation through artificial intelligence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Saudi Education Ministry to launch Mobile Innovation Laboratories
Initiative aims to increase the awareness of students in Saudi universities about entrepreneurship, innovation and start-ups...
 
5 new e-services launched to facilitate paperwork by The Jordan Labour Ministry
The ministry’s e-services retrieve the registered data on workers, including their names, date of birth, employment sector and the start and end date of their work permits...
 
South Asia
 
Huawei to set up ICT academy at Air University
A strategic memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between Air University and Huawei Technologies Pakistan for the establishment of the Huawei ICT Academy at the university...
 
Banglalink’s revenue returns to growth
Banglalink's revenue returned to positive territory in the third quarter of 2020 after tumbling in the second quarter, riding on strong growth in data use, said its parent company Veon in a new report...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Indosat picks Huawei to build 5G-ready IP transport network
Indosat Ooredoo has selected Huawei to build out an SRv6-based 5G-ready IP transport network in some key areas in Indonesia...
 
South Korea reaches 9.25 million 5G subscribers
The number of 5G subscribers stood at 9.25 million as of the end of September, up 590,643 from the previous month, according to the report...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
OTT use surges in Spain
Half of all internet homes in Spain were already receiving OTT services such as Netflix, HBO and Amazon Prime as of the second quarter of this year...
 
TVU and FedNet launch video content service for US election coverage
VU Networks has joined with multimedia news organization FedNet to launch a real-time video content service in time for the US election...
 
 
Middle East
 
Middle East leads the world in video game streaming
The UAE and KSA rank among the top 10 global markets for YouTube Gaming in terms of awareness and engagement with the platform among gamers...
 
Arab Youth Center launches new initiative to nurture young technology leaders
The initiative aims to build a new generation of young Arab leaders in various technology disciplines that are essential for developing a knowledge-and innovation-based economy...
 
Noon launches Noon Pay mobile wallet in UAE
Noon has launched its mobile wallet, Noon Pay, in the United Arab Emirates, with the next destination is likely to be Saudi Arabia...
 
North Africa
 
Tunisia predicts 5G launch in 2022
Mohamed Fadhel Kraiem, the minister of communication technologies and digital Economy, said “the launch of 5G services is only possible from 2022” in Tunisia...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
PLDT’s FTTH network reached 46% of cities/municipalities at end-September 2020
PLDT says that it is consolidating its position in the residential broadband market, and continuing to increase network capacity to meet future growth...
 
Russia to deploy Marathon communications satellite cluster within 3 years
The effort to deploy a constellation of 264 Marathon IoT communications satellites will take three years...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Dito, Globe ink lease deals with Aboitiz infra unit
The Aboitiz group’s infrastructure subsidiary announced partnerships with Globe Telecom and Dito Telecommunity Corp. to deploy minicells...
 
Thales launches Identity Verification Suite
With privacy and user experience as its heart, the IDV Suite enables a secure and 100%-AI identity verification service...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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