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May 8, 2021

Etisalat delivers a limited-time speed upgrade for eLife customers

Etisalat announced that customers on eLife Unlimited plans would get a free broadband speed upgrade until the end of July. From 6th May until 31st July 2021, the entry-level plan, ‘eLife Unlimited Starter’, will now offer 500Mbps, double the current 250Mbps. Both eLife Unlimited Sports and Entertainment plans, currently at 500Mbps, will now offer 750 Mbps during this period...

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BT and Cisco join forces to help small businesses in the UK bounce back stronger

BT is strengthening its support for UK small businesses by working with Cisco to introduce new collaboration tools aimed at helping firms to bounce back stronger following the Covid-19 pandemic...

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AT&T recognized at 2021 DiversityInc Awards

After being inducted into the DiversityInc Hall of Fame in 2020, AT&T was once again recognized as a company that remains committed to ensuring its workplace is inclusive with a wide diversity of backgrounds and...

Policy and Regulation

•	MTC enables unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band in Peru Peru’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has modified its National Frequency Attribution Plan enabling unlicensed access to the 6 GHz band (1,200 MHz) in Peru...

•	FAS permits MegaFon, Beeline, Rostelecom to pursue 5G sharing proposals Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has given ‘preliminary consent’ to an agreement to jointly develop 5G mobile networks proposed by major cellcos...

South Asia

•	Orenda Project gets grant from GSMA Innovation Fund The mission of Orenda Project is to use technology to bridge the divide between private and public schools by providing engaging, high quality digital education to the masses...

•	Nepal Telecom begins FTTH service in Ilam municipality With FTTH net and an imminent 5G cellular broadband launch, Nepal Telecom is likely to take an lead in Nepal’s telecommunication market soon...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Paramount+ shines for ViacomCBS ViacomCBS gained 6 million global streaming subscribers in the first quarter, ending the period with a total of 36 million...

•	NENT Group strengthens sports offering for international expansion The deal is the latest struck by NENT Group as it expands Viaplay internationally, initially in the Baltic states and subsequently in Poland, where sport is central to its proposition...

Global Telecom Update

•	KT to form AI lab with IBM Korea and Woori Bank The three will establish an AI lab to develop new services, such as an AI-based language model specifically designed for the financial sector and an asset management system...

•	Boost for tower availability in Senegal and Zambia The CEO of Helios Towers Senegal, has announced that the company plans to invest nearly US$200 million in improving telecommunications coverage in Senegal over the next five years...

Middle East

•	Dubai launches incubator for health tech startups Dubai SME has launched a new incubator in the emirate that will focus on developing health technology businesses...

•	Zain Bahrain announces fiber speed upgradation The move is part of Zain Bahrain’s continuous commitment to enhance people’s digital lives in the Kingdom and provide its customers with more choices than before...

North Africa

•	Banque Misr signs a MOU with MoneyFellows to provide FinTech services and ease digital payments As an organic result of this new partnership, Banque Misr will be providing MoneyFellows with payment services to develop together new disbursement, collection tools that suit the needs of online money circles' users...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	MTS Belarus activates LTE-800 in Mogilev region Belarusian Cloud Technologies (beCloud), mobile operator MTS Belarus has announced the launch of LTE-800 services in the Mogilev region...

•	Deutsche Telekom upgrades 75 telecom sites to 5G German operator Deutsche Telekom has built up 5G capacities at 75 locations across Germany in the past eight weeks, the carrier said in a release...

Satellite & Internet

•	UPC Slovakia expands gigabit internet to ten new markets UPC says its gigabit service is now available to 297,000 households in 13 markets, or almost half of all households in Slovakia...

•	Semtech and EchoStar Mobile to test satellite IoT connectivity service integrated with LoRaWAN Semtech Corporation and EchoStar Mobile have announced the launch of an initiative to test satellite connectivity services enabled by the LoRaWAN protocol...

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