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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 21, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
TRA-UAE participates in the SAMENA Council Fiber roundtable
 
 
The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) attended the roundtable session organized by the SAMENA Telecommunications Council entitled “Building Fiber-optic Connectivity Corridors for Digital Economy: Lighting Up a Fiber Future”, with participation of key leaders and personalities from the ICT industry worldwide...
 
Investments in digital solutions key to transition towards a new normal, say Etisalat Chiefs
 
 
Hatem Dowidar, Acting CEO, Etisalat Group & CEO, Etisalat International, shared insights on Etisalat’s success story due to its continuous investments in the network achieving a major milestone this year of being ranked the fastest mobile network in the world. This was in line with Etisalat’s vision to ‘Drive the Digital Future to Empower Societies’ to provide innovative and leading digital services to its subscribers and business customers...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  5G coverage supports the International Media Center during G20 Summit
Member Logo As part of its partnership with the G20 Saudi Secretariat, stc Group, the digital enabler of the Kingdom's agenda for the 2020 G20 Leaders’ Summit, has provided its 5G services to the International Media Center...
 
•  Batelco hosts first of its kind event for the launch of New iPhone 12
Member Logo The event is in line with the official launch of iPhone 12 in Bahrain, which is the first Apple device to support 5G network...
 
•  Eutelsat to dispose of its interest in Euro Broadband Infrastructure
Member Logo Eutelsat Communications has agreed the disposal of its 51% stake in Euro Broadband Infrastructure (EBI), the company operating the KA SAT satellite, and related European broadband business to Viasat Inc...
 
•  PCCW Global’s Console Connect wins AfricaCom innovation award
Member Logo PCCW Global, has won AfricaCom Awards’ Most Innovative Product or Service Award for its Console Connect, the world’s first platform for Software-Defined Interconnection®...
 
•  Huawei awarded the Most Valued Technology Partner of the Year 2020 from DBS Bank
Member Logo Huawei team has been working closely to meet the bank’s evolving requirements and drive digital transformation especially during the Covid-19 pandemic...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
TRA-UAE participates in the SAMENA Council Fiber roundtable
The Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) attended the roundtable session organized by the SAMENA Telecommunications Council entitled “Building Fiber-optic Connectivity Corridors for Digital Economy: Lighting Up...
 
Government approves introduction of 4G all over Ukraine
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved the plan of events for implementation of the mobile communication of fourth-generation (4G) all over the country in 2020...
 
VNPT gets green light to commercially test 5G
Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group has received a license to commercially trial 5G services in Hanoi and HCMC...
 
North Africa
 
EU trains Algeria and Morocco police in online disinformation tactics
The European Union is training police and security forces in North African countries in surveillance techniques including harvesting data from social media sites and mobile phones...
 
Egypt witnesses a 17% increase in mobile wallets since March 2020
Mobile wallets in Egypt have reached about 14.4m in October 2020, up from 12.3m wallets in March 2020, an increase of 17%...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Cignal, Meralco subsidiary launch new broadband service
Cignal TV and Radius Telecoms, a subsidiary of Manila Electric Company, announced that they are forming a new pay-TV and home internet service called RED Broadband...
 
New PoP expands Sparkle’s reach in Brazil
The new PoP, says Sparkle, responds to a fast-growing demand for international connectivity services in Brazil, offering local and regional players high-speed internet connectivity...
 
RTComm provides Megafon with satellite links in Chukotka
Russian satellite operator RTComm, a subsidiary of Rostelecom, has provided the operator Megafon with additional satellite links of up to 500 Mbps capacity...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Thailand leads in race for ASEAN Digital Hub with upgraded ICT infrastructure
Thailand, which leads ASEAN in 5G rollout, is eyeing the pole position in the race for ASEAN digital hub with its initiative to boost the ICT infrastructure and ecosystem...
 
Tech upgrades drive Alibaba Cloud online shopping
Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology arm of Alibaba Group, said that this year’s 11.11 Global Shopping Festival revenue of RMB498.2 billion (US$74.1 billion) over an 11-day period was made possible by infrastructure...
 
Huawei Pay launches in Malaysia in partnership with UnionPay and ICBC
Huawei Pay has been launched in Malaysia through a partnership with UnionPay International and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC)...
 
 
Middle East
 
Saudi Arabia 3rd country to launch COVID-19 tracing apps
Saudi Arabia was the third country in the world to launch a contact-tracing application for COVID-19, thanks to the flexibility and capabilities of the Kingdom’s advanced infrastructure...
 
Jordan's Startappz provides electronic channel services for Saudi Lebara
Startappz worked with Saudi Lebara on web and smart application development, e-commerce store upgrade, and strengthening client loyalty and satisfaction...
 
Demica seals global platform partnership with SABB, Microsoft
Demica has deployed its platform into Saudi Arabia through a private cloud deployment onto a Microsoft Azure Stack...
 
First batch graduates from NGN’s programme
NGN Training Centre celebrated the graduation of 144 Bahrainis who attended a free training course virtually in the fundamentals of information security...
 
South Asia
 
Mobile phone subscribers on the rise in Bangladesh
The number of mobile phone subscribers in Bangladesh rose 2.4 percent year-on-year in October, according to the latest sector data...
 
Dialog launches cloud-based Video Surveillance service for Sri Lanka businesses
Dialog Enterprise has launched the cloud-based Dialog Video Surveillance (DVS) service, that offers analytics-driven Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) tools for business customers...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Disney+ launches in Latin America and Caribbean
Announcing the launch, the company also stated its commitment to the local market, saying that it currently has 70 Latin American originals including fiction series, talk shows, documentaries and live shows in production...
 
Antik enables Albanian OTT
This is the company’s third OTT project in the region, with it also having supplied a solution to Albania’s public broadcaster RTSH and the Kosovo fixed-line operator PTK...
 
Zixi teams with Google Cloud for live video over IP
Zixi’s Software-Defined Video Platform (SDVP) has been integrated with Google Cloud, using the Google Cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities, as well as Zixi APIs...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Globe Telecom sees pervasive 4G/LTE mobile data by 2021
Globe Telecom has been focusing on improving its network infrastructure by expanding its reach through new site builds and network upgrades all over the country..
 
First 5G networks go live in France
The newest mobile technology is available in areas where operators have set up some 500 antennae used in test phases, all of them concentrated around nine cities including Paris, Marseille and Lyon...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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