SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
June 13, 2021 |
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Featured Member News |
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NBC Olympics selects AT&T as its networking services provider for its production of Olympic games in Tokyo |
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NBC Olympics, a division of the NBC Sports Group, has selected AT&T to provide networking services for its production of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad, which take place in Tokyo, Japan, from July 23 – August 8. The announcement was made by Chris Connolly, VP of Transmission Engineering and Operations, NBC Olympics, and Sarita Rao, President, AT&T Integrated & Partner Solutions...
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Member News |
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Omantel successfully tests Enhanced 5G at its HQ
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Riding high on the 5G wave, Omantel has successfully tested the 5G High Band at its headquarters in Madinat al Irfan under the supervision of TRA. The 5G test using the mmWave, which successfully concluded recently in... |
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Unlock new possibilities with Batelco’s upgraded business broadband
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Batelco has unveiled upgraded Business Broadband Packages targeted at entrepreneurs, SMEs and large corporations, to offer an enormous boost in speed and usage, in an effort to support their evolving business requirements... |
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Policy and Regulation |
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Sri Lankan regulator to bring in changes
Sri Lanka’s telecom regulator is accelerating structural challenges and trends that have long suppressed the telecommunications industry’s growth to create a dynamic, competitive, innovative telecommunications...
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Greek regulator consults on universal service
Greece’s National Telecommunications & Post Commission has opened a consultation into the procedure for the selection of a universal service provider...
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Satellite & Internet |
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PH to launch the biggest satellite in 2023
Once launched, the satellite shall provide data on a regular basis for a wide variety of applications, including coastal mapping and monitoring; disaster damage assessment; agriculture and aquaculture monitoring; and...
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KPN and APG fiber joint venture Glaspoort begins operations
The partners increased the scope of the planned JV rollout by approximately 75,000 premises, with Glaspoort now expected to deploy open fiber infrastructure connecting roughly 750,000 homes and 225,000 business premises...
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KPN and APG fiber joint venture Glaspoort begins operations
The partners increased the scope of the planned JV rollout by approximately 75,000 premises, with Glaspoort now expected to deploy open fiber infrastructure connecting roughly 750,000 homes and 225,000 business premises...
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Global Telecom Update |
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Tencent rolls out internet data centre
Tencent Cloud, the cloud business of Chinese internet giant Tencent, has launched its second internet data centre (IDC) in Thailand to cash in on flourishing demand in cloud computing service...
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Claro Argentina joins DOCOMO Digital to boost mobile payments
Claro Argentina has partnered with DOCOMO Digital to facilitate the purchase of applications and content with direct carrier billing (DCB), within the Samsung Galaxy Store, using Claro's pre-paid or post-paid...
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North Africa |
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Tunisia, 2nd country in North Africa in broadband speed
Mobile consistency varied widely across North Africa during Q1 2021, with Morocco’s Maroc Telecom showing the best consistency at 89.1%. Tunisia’s Tunisie Telecom had the next best consistency at 86.7%...
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Disclaimer: Information contained herein has been obtained from sources, which we deem reliable. SAMENA Telecommunications Council is not liable for any misinformed decisions that the reader may reach by being solely reliant on information contained herein. Expert advice should be sought. |
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