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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 20, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
stc and Aramco unveil Dammam 7 supercomputer
 
 
Aramco and stc announced the launch of Dammam 7, a new supercomputer among the top ten most powerful in the world. The supercomputer presents new opportunities in both exploration and development and enhances Aramco’s decision-making on exploration and investment decisions...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Etisalat rolls out vaccination programme for its UAE employees
Member Logo The inoculation drive began at Etisalat’s Abu Dhabi headquarters Building A where a station was set up for employees to conveniently get the vaccine free of charge...
 
•  Mobily and Nokia pilot world’s first 4G and 5G Fixed Wireless Access network slicing
Member Logo The ongoing pilot, which took place in the capital city of Riyadh, occurred in a multi-vendor environment and included sliced access, transport and core networks with management and assurance capabilities...
 
•  Huawei urges corporates to focus on data minimization and business continuity management to mitigate data security challenges
Member Logo Huawei hosted a webinar comprising an expert panel to discuss the lessons learnt on data protection in 2020 and the trends to watch out for in 2021...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Chilean 5G spectrum up for auction
Chile’s regulator Subtel has confirmed that it now plans to auction several 5G frequencies across several rounds of bidding...
 
FCC sets record with the auction of key spectrum for 5G use
These airwaves lie in the range of 3.7GHz-3.98GHz and heavy demand for the rare mid-band spectrum helped generate a record US$80.9 billion in proceeds related to the auction...
 
South Asia
 
Afghanistan making progress in international cable connectivity
Afghanistan now has terrestrial cable connectivity to five neighboring countries, while work on the ‘Wakhan Corridor Fibre Optic Survey Project’ to connect to China is nearing completion...
 
Nepal leverages digital ID registration to launch e-government app to Beta
Nepal’s app is part of the Digital Nepal Framework project and makes use of previously-registered digital ID data...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Viasat World teams up with Volia
Viasat World has signed a new carriage deal with the leading Ukrainian pay-TV operator Volia...
 
Paramount+ reveals launch dates for US, Canada, Nordics and Australia
ViacomCBS is to launch streamer Paramount+ across the US on 4 March and has also revealed more details of the service’s international roll-out plans...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vodafone, MTS extend partnership to 2023
These include identifying new opportunities to enhance MTS’ business operations, drive technology innovation, and strengthen strategic execution across consumer and enterprise segments...
 
Tower One constructing new sites across Latin America
Tower One Wireless has stated that it has 75 new cell sites under construction across Latin America...
 
 
Middle East
 
Etihad and Emirates to trial COVID-19 digital passport in world first
Etihad Airways and Emirates have announced their partnership IATA, which is developing a mobile app for travelers to store and manage vaccine proofs and COVID-19 test certificates, among other perks...
 
UAE small businesses were quicker to invest in new digital technology, says Visa
As high as 97 percent of the UAE's SMEs (small and medium enterprises) were quick to deploy new digital technologies - including on payments - to meet changing consumer behaviours...
 
North Africa
 
Nexans opens new plant for fiber cable accessories in Morocco
Nexans has inaugurated a new plant in Morocco for its Telecom Systems Business Unit for the production of fiber-optic cable accessories...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
German operators team to fill 4G coverage gaps
Deutsche Telekom struck an agreement with Telefonica Deutschland to share infrastructure, with the aim of closing 4G coverage gaps and improve connectivity at several hundred sites across Germany...
 
Telstra claims 5G speed record for commercial network
The cellco has said it views mmWave as being the next important iteration of 5G, technology that will take 5G to the next level, and it has been testing it on the country’s intended frequency since 2017...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
CityFibre adds new towns and new ISPs in the new year
UK based altnet CityFibre, has broken ground on its full fiber network project in Reading and signed up another retail ISP customer...
 
SSi partners SES for satellite capacity in Northern Canada
SSi Canada has signed a multi-year partnership with SES Networks under which the latter will deliver new satellite backbone capacity to Northern Canada including all 25 communities of Nunavut...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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