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November 10, 2020

4th edition of Huawei Middle East ICT Competition opens to aspiring students across the UAE

With digital technologies becoming the building blocks of the UAE’s intelligent society—and increasingly important during the COVID-19 pandemic and post-pandemic recovery—Huawei is once again touching on an important driver of the digital transformation journey, nurturing ICT talent...

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Subspace selects Manama-IX for its regional expansion

Manama-IX, the Bahrain based Internet peering service provider has announced that Subspace Inc. a company dedicated to enhancing network performance and improving online latency, will join its platform...

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New state of the art Bristol office will be key location for BT

Bristol has been announced as one of BT’s key locations in the UK, with the new office acting as a hub for more than 2,000 colleagues in the city and wider region...

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Eutelsat announces the appointment of Pascal Homsy as Chief Technical Officer

Pascal joins Eutelsat from Thales Alenia Space where he was head of the Space Telecommunications Business Line...

Policy and Regulation

•	The one-year countdown to the ITU 2021 World Telecommunication Development Conference kicks-off ITU launches the Road to Addis series to focus on advancing global connectivity and SDGs and Generation Connect to increase youth engagement and empowerment...

•	Nkom announces offshore spectrum availability Norway’s National Communications Authority has announced that it is accepting applications for spectrum in the 700MHz and 900MHz bands for offshore use...

North Africa

•	TE, AMS-IX partner to establish EG-IX Internet Traffic Exchange Center The centre will be located inside TE’s largest international data centre in the Smart Village, located on the outskirts of Cairo...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	T-Mobile expands LTE home internet to over 130 more cities The expansion covers more than a few well-known metropolitan centers on top of smaller locations, including the Detroit area, Cleveland, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Pittsburgh and Sioux Falls...

•	Telia Lithuania rolls out 5G base stations Telia Lithuania, the country’s biggest telecommunications and IT company has announced the launch of a 5G mobile network in Lithuania...

Satellite & Internet

•	FTTH growth continues in Spain This was 1.4 million more than in the same month last year and contrasted with a 0.9 million reduction in DSL connections over the same period...

•	Orange unveils pan-African superfast broadband network Orange launched a pan-African high-speed fibre network called Djoliba, with the aim to spur digital ecosystems and meet growing connectivity needs in West Africa...

•	SpaceX successfully places GPS III satellite into orbit The first launch for Space Force happened in June, and SpaceX has a contract to launch additional GPS satellites over the next five years aboard rockets using previously flown first-stage boosters...

Global Telecom Update

•	Vodafone presses peers to take open RAN plunge Vodafone executives called on global counterparts to follow its lead in committing to large-scale open RAN deployments...

•	Amazon investment underlines e-commerce trend in Brazil This expansion has also been an indirect result of the ongoing pandemic and recent restrictions on movement, which have driven growing demand for online delivery services...

Middle East

•	Saudi Arabia reports increase in NFC mobile payments NFC mobile payments accounted for 25% of overall POS transaction volumes in Saudi Arabia in September, according to Saudi Payments...

•	GlobeX Data expands Middle Eastern presence with agreement to distribute Sekur solutions in Kuwait It has kick-started a drive to sign more agreements in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, including Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the UAE..

•	ADNOC's AIQ, G42 and Schlumberger sign deal to develop AI for oil market Three companies to develop and commercialise AI products for the global Exploration and Production (E&P) market...

•	UAE e-commerce sector expected to see continued growth The UAE e-commerce Landscape 2020 survey showed that online e-commerce will account for 21.9 percent of all card payments in the country this year, up from 19.7 percent in 2019...

South Asia

•	PTCL partners with DETASAD to establish Qaumi Cloud "QCloud" in Pakistan This will be Pakistan's first internationally collaborated public Cloud services and Pakistan's first-ever cloud marketplace that is locally hosted in PTCL Tier-3 Data Center...

•	Surge in demand helps Sri Lanka Telecom to record higher revenue, profits in third quarter Sri Lanka Telecom reported stronger top and bottom-line results for the three months ended in September as demand for telecommunication services surged due to COVID-19...

•	Bangladesh’s software, IoT developers gaining ground on global market Apart from exporting ICT products and services, a number of entities have started to produce ICT and IOT devices and artificial intelligence and cloud-based solutions for different countries...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Viaplay to be rolled out in 10 countries by the end of 2023 NENT Group to become European streaming champion, sets five-year targets, and will launch Viaplay in Poland and the US...

•	Virgin Media launches TV 360 platform Liberty Global-owned Virgin Media has launched Virgin TV 360, its new pay TV platform to rival Sky Q...

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