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April 13, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zain partners with PASS to offer safe cities solutions to ‘Shamiya and Shuwaikh’
 
 
Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Kuwait-based platform PASS. As part of this joint collaboration, Zain will offer a wide range of smart cities solutions that meet the Ministry of Interior’s specifications, and the solutions will be integrated with the ministry’s backend systems...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Huawei sees significant potential to support Pakistan’s journey to a digital economy
Member Logo On the sidelines of the SAMENA Leaders’ Summit, the President of Huawei Middle East, Charles Yang, has provided an update on the company’s business globally and across local markets, with his comments following...
 
•  Tech Mahindra and Rajasthan Royals partner to build on fan loyalty and fan monetisation
Member Logo This collaboration aims to derive three times the value from a loyal fanbase using Tech Mahindra’s digital platform powered by next-generation technologies...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Egypt’s Telecom Regulator orders free use of mobile apps for persons with disabilities
The National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) has directed for mobile companies to allow free use of a set of phone applications for people with disabilities as of the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan...
 
Sri Lanka overhauls QoS and RTT regulation to combat poor coverage
Sri Lanka’s regulator is introducing new legislation aimed at boosting mobile coverage and service quality across the island nation...
 
South Asia
 
Telenor, WB empowers 1,100 women with digital skills
Telenor Pakistan has set a new precedent for enabling women’s education and digital literacy by training 1,100 women as part of the World Bank’s Girls Learn Women Earn (GLWE) initiative...
 
Nepal Telecom begins 4G service in Upper Mustang
With this, the people of Upper Mustang will have access to the advanced 4th generation mobile broadband service right on their phones...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Remote Chebisa to get 4G network in August
Remote Chebisa village in Lingzhi gewog, Thimphu, will be connected with B-mobile 4G network in August this year...
 
Vodafone launches 5G SA in 170 German cities and municipalities
Around 1,000 antennas in the 3.5GHz band have been switched on in 170 cities and municipalities, enabling 5G services in that frequency range to transmit completely independently of Vodafone’s LTE technology...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Kantar and Streamhub announce partnership
The partnership will see Streamhub integrate Kantar’s video tagging data into its enterprise analytics platform...
 
Disney+ rollout in Southern Asia going strong
Disney+’s deployment in Southern Asia is going strong, as the streaming platform launched in India in April 2020, followed by Indonesia in September 2020 and more recently Singapore in February 2021...
 
 
Middle East
 
Saudi fintech startup Prexle completes $670,000 seed round
Prexle provides POS services for retailers and was founded in 2020 and its software also enables retailers to manage inventory, purchase orders as well as generate reports on sales and tax...
 
Digital revolution brings new ways of serving remote areas
The advancement of digitalization is now bringing benefits to businesses in hard-to-reach locations, transforming the way they operate and making life easier for customers...
 
North Africa
 
Ora Developers signs an agreement with Telecom Egypt for communication services at its projects
Telecom Egypt signed a protocol of cooperation with Ora Developers to provide integrated communications services to the latter’s real estate projects...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
TELUS taps Ekinops for virtualized access network functions
The platform leverages OneOS6, the EKINOPS modular software offering that enables a variety of built-in software services that can be activated remotely and on-demand...
 
TUSAŞ to export satellite to Argentina
The new generation ARSAT-SG1 Satellite is expected to achieve a technologically important position among its peers throughout the world with its output capacity exceeding 50 Gbps in Ka-band...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Globe simplifying operations with Amdocs’ NFV platform
Filipino operator Globe Telecom has gone live with Amdocs’ service and network automation platform for network functions virtualisation (NFV) and cloud orchestration...
 
Vodafone UK seeks to boost eSIM mobile support for travellers
Vodafone UK added more support for eSIMs in Smartphones on their Pay Monthly plans last year, but they’re keen to improve this and to see how it could be better harnessed by international travellers...
 
China's Tencent Cloud launches first data center in Indonesia
Tencent Cloud launched the first internet data center (IDC) in Jakarta of Indonesia, the latest addition to its growing infrastructure network spanning 27 regions and 61 availability zones...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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