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March 24, 2021

Etisalat participates in 5G MENA 2021 Digital Symposium

Etisalat announced its successful participation at the 5G MENA 2021 Digital Symposium headlining eminent speakers sharing insights on the transforming communication landscape and immense opportunities in the 5G landscape...

Zain, Mobily tower deal gets green light from Saudi regulator

The Communications and Information Technology Commission gave the green light to the deal, which involves forming a consortium to buy the towers owned by the pair, and merge them into one...

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Omantel enters channel partnership with Huawei for state-of-the-art enterprise products

Omantel has taken another step to boost its valued enterprise customers’ capacities and push Oman’s digital transformation...

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Zain Drone assigned by Kuwait’s Public Authority of Industry to acquire precise industrial data

Zain Group announces that its subsidiary Zain Drone has been awarded a contract to perform a precise data acquisition assignment for Kuwait’s Public Authority of Industry. The project will entail conducting an aerial...

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Huawei hosts its Annual Middle East Virtual Partner Summit 2021 with ecosystem partners from the region

he annual event offered a collaborative platform for Huawei’s Middle East partners, fostering an exchange of best practices and successes from the past year...

Policy and Regulation

•	TRA Oman explores challenges to telecom services in Al Mazunah Free Zone The delegation was briefed on the MFZ, the ongoing and upcoming projects and the status of telecom services in the free zone, which are provided by the service providers...

•	Zain, Mobily tower deal gets green light from Saudi regulator The Communications and Information Technology Commission gave the green light to the deal, which involves forming a consortium to buy the towers owned by the pair, and merge them into one...

North Africa

•	BNA launches its first mobile payment app Tthe National Bank of Algeria launched the first mobile payment application in Algeria, which relies on the smart barcode “QR CODE”...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Globe ramps up 4G deployment and promises new 5G coverage Globe Telecom has completed a 4G/LTE upgrade to its network in Boracay and is set to accelerate a modernization push in other areas of the Philippines...

•	Orange launches 5G in French port of Le Havre Orange is making 5G available to companies in the port area of Le Havre and says this the first major French seaport to benefit from the 5G based on the 3.5 GHz technology...

Satellite & Internet

•	Broadband rollout accelerates in the Netherlands A joint venture company has been established between Royal KPN N.V and pension fund manager APG Group for the purpose of speeding up the process of the rollout of fiber across the Netherlands...

•	Kazakhstan tests OneWeb satellite broadband OneWeb is scheduled to launch its latest batch of 36 LEO satellites this week to bring its total in-orbit constellation to 146 satellites, under a plan to launch a 648 LEO fleet providing global services...

Global Telecom Update

•	Rail technology firm launches a new IoT company Technology company Dual Inventive, which has its international HQ in Doncaster, has marked the next chapter in its ambitious expansion plans with the launch of new company AnyWare...

•	Telecel aiming to fund network expansion in Zimbabwe Zimbabwe’s smallest mobile operator Telecel is reportedly courting investors to generate funds for a new network expansion...

Middle East

•	Huawei, Ahlia University to establish ICT academy in Bahrain The agreements aim to bring smart solutions to the University’s research centres and strengthen the skills and capabilities of students in the ICT sector...

•	Abu Dhabi, Singapore explore strategic cooperation in Space, 5G and AI Abu Dhabi and Singapore have expressed interest in exploring collaboration in strategic areas, including technology, innovation, artificial intelligence (AI), space technologies and public sector partnerships...

•	Ooredoo Kuwait selects Infovista to streamline 5G planning Ooredoo Kuwait has tapped Infovista’s radio planning portfolio to upgrade over 2500 sites nationwide in a bid to accelerate its 5G network deployment...

•	Iran has extended rural connectivity to cover thousands of villages More than 35,000 villages have been connected to high-speed internet networks over an eight-year period under a project to improve rural services...

•	Saudi’s Hala raises US$6.5 million Series A to become a digital bank for SMEs Riyadh-based fintech Hala has raised US$6.5 million in a Series A round led by Impact46 (who invested through their growth fund)...

South Asia

•	Pakistan’s cellphone imports rise to US$1.3 billion According to the data released by the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Pakistan’s cellphone imports went up by 51.5 percent to US$1.311 billion in 8MFY21 as compared to US$865 million in the same period last year...

•	NTA’s broadband internet connected to 75 % of target areas of Nepal The project relating to providing broadband internet service by using the Rural Telecommunications Fund has been implemented in 18 packages...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Vodafone TV takes off in Spain Currently, around 200,000 Vodafone TV customers access the service through the platform’s app, without using a receiver...

•	Kidomi kids app joins Access Twine for Cars Access Europe has teamed up with digital media outfit Fingerprint Digital to bring the latter’s Kidomi kids entertainment app to vehicles...

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