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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 5, 2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
Radio Spectrum for IMT-2020 and beyond: Fostering commercial and innovative use ITU Workshop hosted by CITC Saudi Arabia
 
 
The Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is pleased to announce an international online workshop held in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) focusing on fostering the commercial and innovative use of radio spectrum for the International Mobile Telecommunications-2020 standard and beyond. The workshop comes in line with CITC's strategic initiative "Enabling commercial and innovative uses of the frequency spectrum" as part of its newly launched National Frequency Spectrum Strategy 2025...
 
Nigeria to launch another satellite soon
Nigeria is planning to launch another satellite into space to stop television stations from paying huge amounts of money to foreign satellite firms for live coverage of events...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain joins a global effort with GSMA to improve Digital Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities
Member Logo To mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Zain became a signatory and was part of the advisory board in the GSMA’s global effort to launch the ‘Principles for Driving the Digital Inclusion of...
 
•  stc sucessfully achieved a first global 5G new radio non-standalone FDD/TDD carrier aggregation, in close collaboration with Ericsson and MediaTek
Member Logo As the first global accomplishment, stc in collaboration with its Ericsson and MediaTek, demonstrated a cutting-edge live network solution enabling 5G Carrier Aggregation using Ericsson Spectrum Sharing (ESS) in FDD lowband...
 
•  Huawei & Informa Tech hold the Africa Green ICT Forum
Member Logo Huawei has successfully held its Africa Green ICT Forum, alongside Informa Tech as the host of the event. The theme of the online forum was “Leading Power Digitalization for a Smart and Sustainable World.”...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Household Internet access in urban areas twice as high as in rural areas
Estimates on Internet access in small island developing states and landlocked developing countries available for the first time...
 
Radio Spectrum for IMT-2020 and beyond: Fostering commercial and innovative use ITU Workshop hosted by CITC Saudi Arabia
The Communication and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is pleased to announce an international online workshop held in partnership with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) focusing on fostering the...
 
DCMS aims to reduce risk in telecoms networks
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has set out an approach to diversify the country’s telecoms supply chain and reduce the risks to security in 5G networks...
 
South Asia
 
Bandwidth speed of 6 terabyte per second likely by June 2024
With the installation of the new submarine cable, Bangladesh will get 6 terabytes per second of bandwidth that will boost internet speed and help launch 5G services in the country...
 
Airtel Lanka partners NIMH to launch 1926 mental health chat-line
The service which went live on World Mental Health Day 2020, is free for Airtel customers and is also accessible for users of other mobile networks...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Discovery launches hybrid streaming service amidst heavy competition
The broadcaster goes both D2C as well as using established distribution partners, including Verizon in the US, Sky in the UK and TIM in Italy...
 
Vodafone Deutschland offering GigaTV on Apple TV
Vodafone Deutschland has begun providing its TV service, GigaTV, along with Apple’s premium entertainment device, the Apple TV 4K...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Telenor expands child online safety platform, DigiWorld, in Asia
With cyberbullying on the rise, Telenor Group is on track to have increased the digital resilience of 4 million children globally by end-2020...
 
Khmelnytskoblenergo, South Korea's KT Corporation to cooperate on smart grid technologies
According to the Memorandum, the two companies intend to collaborate in developing an advanced metering infrastructure project in Ukraine...
 
Telefonica’s Brazilian subsidiary extends B2B transformation with launch of new e-commerce offering
The e-commerce channel will be enabled through an existing deployment of Netcracker’s Product Catalog and Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) solutions...
 
 
Middle East
 
Bahraini technology firms gear up for Gitex Dubai
The Bahraini National Pavilion will be presenting the country's unique and successful experience in tackling the obstacles imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the field of ICT at the Gitex Dubai 2020...
 
Teltronic supplies TETRA communication system in Oman
The new system will allow communication among runway, terminal and emergency and security staff, contributing to significantly improve the operations at the airport...
 
More Dubai residents getting a ‘smart’ start
DubaiNow — an app for all city services — aims to offer citizens and residents a one-stop-shop experience for all government interactions...
 
Dubai World Trade Centre announces strategic video collaboration partnership with Avaya
Dubai World Trade Centre has announced a strategic video collaboration partnership with Avaya under which DWTC will use the Avaya Spaces workstream collaboration platform to create blended conference experiences at GITEX...
 
North Africa
 
Infinix debuts smartphone manufacturing in Egypt in partnership with Sico
Infinix has signed a cooperation agreement with Sico, under which new production lines to assemble smartphones will be launched at the latter’s facility in the Assiut technology zone...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Celcom to upgrade 4,700 sites to latest 4G tech by Feb 2021
Celcom has announced that it is expediting its network improvement exercise to support the increasing demand for mobile data...
 
Viettel launches 5G trial with customers in Hanoi
Around 100 base transceiver stations (BTS) in the three districts of Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh and Hai Ba Trung have been switched on, allowing customers with compatible handsets to trial 5G technology in the city for free...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Hawaiki augments its trans-Pacific cable with capacity on SEA-US
Hawaiki Submarine Cable signed an agreement with Hawaiian Telcom securing significant international capacity on Southeast Asia – United States (SEA-US) trans-Pacific fiber cable system from Guam to Los Angeles...
 
Nigeria to launch another satellite soon
Nigeria is planning to launch another satellite into space to stop television stations from paying huge amounts of money to foreign satellite firms for live coverage of events...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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