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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
April 28, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat Group Reports AED 2.3 billion consolidated Net profit in Q1 of 2021
 
 
Etisalat Group’s first quarter results are a continuation of the strong performance the company has achieved over the past year due to the resilience and agility shown across our business operations. The company generated record results in the new hybrid scenario helping consumers adapt to a new work-and-learn-from-anywhere reality while continuing to deliver innovative services subscribers require and demand...
 
Whitepaper highlights Bahrain’s role in global BPO growth
Bahrain offers the perfect platform for strengthening customer experience excellence, building on its reputation as a country that has adopted new approaches to customer experience and geographic delivery...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  stc announces its financial results for Q1 2021
Member Logo Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc), a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced its financial results for the...
 
•  ​Eutelsat enters LEO space through investment in OneWeb
Member Logo Eutelsat Communications has entered into an agreement with OneWeb for the subscription of a 24% equity stake, becoming a leading shareholder of the company alongside the UK Government and Bharti Global...
 
•  Cisco commits $US100 million to help address climate crisis
Member Logo The Foundation’s endowment is funded by Cisco. This commitment will fund nonprofit grants and impact investments that support bold climate solutions as well as community education and activation...
 
•  Huawei announces 2021 Q1 business results, business remains resilient
Member Logo Huawei announced its business results for the first quarter of 2021, which were in line with forecast...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Ethiopia: MTN, Vodafone bid for Ethiopia's full telecom licenses
The Ethiopian Communications Authority (ECA) announced that the two African telecom giants namely MTN and the Vodafone/ Vodacom consortium have submitted their bids for full telecom licenses in the country...
 
Deputy ICT minister touts digitization as telco opens shop in Dodoma
Deputy Minister for Information Communication Technology, Engineer Andrea Kundo said in the capital this week that telcos like Vodacom Tanzania Limited are doing a good job to invest in digital platforms in the market...
 
Middle East
 
Kuwait chairs UNSCO meeting on ethics of artificial intelligence
Kuwait chaired a UNSCO experts meeting on negotiating a draft text of the Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)...
 
Whitepaper highlights Bahrain’s role in global BPO growth
Bahrain offers the perfect platform for strengthening customer experience excellence, building on its reputation as a country that has adopted new approaches to customer experience and geographic delivery...
 
PayBy partners with NT.Payments to make its services more accessible in the UAE
Fintech company, PayBy, significantly expanded its footprint in the UAE following its recent partnership with NT.Payments...
 
South Asia
 
Nepal Telecom initiates preparation for 5G trial
The telco is in its final preparation to start 5G testing and trials in some select parts of the country, most probably Kathmandu and few other cities...
 
MetLife brings tele-doctor services for its customers, agents
It will help customers and agents access medical advice without needing to go to a hospital or clinic in person...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Disney to close 18 channels in Asia as streaming focus expands
Disney is closing 18 linear networks in Asia as it focuses its attention on nascent streamer Disney+...
 
BritBox UK lands on Amazon Prime Video channels
BritBox UK is now available to Amazon Prime Video members in the UK with an add-on subscription...
 
 
North Africa
 
Maroc Telecom Group generates consolidated revenues of Dh8.9 billion(US$1 billion) in Q1
In a difficult context, marked by the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis and the regulatory environment, the Maroc Telecom Group generated consolidated revenues of DH 8,914 billion at the end of March 2021...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Indian 4G subscriber base to rise 820 million in FY22
India's 4G mobile data subscribers are expected to rise to 820 million by the end of March 2022 - higher than in the last financial year (April to March) despite a Covid spike...
 
O2 and Vodafone to trade 5G spectrum bands
O2 and Vodafone have today announced a new deal that will see the operators’ trade bands to create more efficient blocks of 5G spectrum...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
SES to colocate four satellite ground stations at Microsoft data center sites
Satellite telco SES announced it is building eight satellite ground stations, with four colocated at Microsoft data centers...
 
De-Cix and EllaLink partner to boost trans-Atlantic data traffic
Internet exchange operator De-Cix said it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to establish a strategic partnership with the recently-completed EllaLink trans-Atlantic cable platform...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
First demo of O-RAN aligned, xAPP-powered Open RAN solution
The test was part of the Open Network Foundation’s (ONF) software-defined RAN project...
 
Deutsche Telekom invests in open-source blockchain ecosystem Celo
Deutsche Telekom announced that it is investing in the future of the decentralized financial economy – with a significant purchase of Celo’s native asset (CELO)...
 
Smart Axiata builds 68 network sites in Siem Reap province
The newly completed sites in Siem Reap are among the 350 new sites announced by Smart in March this year, said the Cambodian operator in a press release...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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