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July 10, 2021

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Zain recognized with prestigious World Finance ‘Best Corporate Governance Award 2021’ for Kuwait

The company drew praise from the judging panel for its principles and integrity captured by its Investor Relations and Corporate Governance Framework, which drive its ongoing ability to provide shareholder returns and to pursue long-term objectives while ensuring ongoing transparency and accountability...

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BT brings its first neutral host solution to Alderley Park

BT announced its first ‘neutral host’ customer contract win in the UK, with Bruntwood SciTech, a 50:50 joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General. As part of the deal, BT will bring EE’s leading 4G...

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Cisco completes acquisition of Socio Labs

Socio is a modern event technology platform that manages the full lifecycle of multi-session, multi-track virtual, in-person and hybrid conferences – from registration to post-event analytics...

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“Tech & Sustainability: Everyone's Included” forum explores the role of technology in sustainable development

At the forum, Huawei also released its 2020 Sustainability Report and announced its Seeds for the Future Program 2.0, through which Huawei plans to invest US$150 million in digital talent development over the next five...

Policy and Regulation

•	Egypt's ITIDA and Atos sign agreement to boost local digital job market With this agreement, Atos and ITIDA aim to accelerate the development of the digital sector in Egypt and create new employment opportunities locally...

•	Saudi Arabia launches US$18 billion plan to build data centers The Saudi Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) has launched a US$18 billion plan to build a network of large-scale data centers across the Kingdom...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Pluto TV taps Blue Ant for 650 hours of content Global distribution group Blue Ant International has licensed more than 650 hours of programming to Pluto TV, the ViacomCBS-owned free streaming service...

•	Vodafone customers to gain six months of discovery+ access Vodafone has announced a new offer to customers of six monthsâ€™ access to the discovery+ direct-to-consumer streaming service at no extra cost...

Satellite & Internet

•	Philippines operator signs MoU to boost affordable rural cellular broadband access AST plans to achieve full global mobile coverage with 110 satellites by the end of 2023 or early in 2024 – and 5G support with a total of 168 satellites by the end of 2024...

•	SWAN eyes 150,000 subscribers Slovak fixed line telco SWAN says it is looking to add 60,000 new customers over the next three years to take its total user base to around 150,000...

Global Telecom Update

•	TPG, Telstra harmonise spectrum to boost data rates Australian operators TPG Telecom and Telstra harmonised their spectrum holdings in the 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands, increasing mobile data rates in six cities by up to 20 percent...

•	Orange Cameroon boasts 70% MoMo market share Mobile operator Orange Cameroon announced it controls 70% of the market share on the Mobile Money segment with estimated monthly cumulative transactions US$1.45 billion in 2021...

•	Pilot Mobile Money service to be licenced next month in Vietnam Local telecommunications network providers in Vietnam have been approved to pilot several Mobile Money services next month after more than two years of waiting...

Middle East

•	Saudi tourism fund deploys ‘cloud first’ strategy with Oracle Automation, digitisation and artificial intelligence (AI) are the top trends which institutional investors and family offices believe will shape the economy in the coming decades...

•	Jordan has great expertise to implement e-gov’t plan: Haitham Rawajbeh Jordanian companies in the ICT sector have experienced growth and supported many countries in the region by providing solutions to their various economic and service sectors, the JCC member noted...

•	Webinar identifies opportunities in growing UAE food e-commerce market Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry’s international offices recently organised a webinar which identified new business opportunities opening up within the UAE’s food e-commerce sector...

South Asia

•	Dialog Axiata establishes 5G Innovation Centers at leading universities These Innovation Centers aim to empower students to be interdisciplinary, computational, and entrepreneurial by giving students first-hand experience with 5G connectivity and many of its cutting-edge use cases...

•	Additional 5.8 million Nepalis procured internet services last year An additional 5.79 million Nepalis procured internet services in one year since the COVID-19 hit the country due to an increasing use of online platforms in various fronts during the period...

North Africa

•	Ooredoo Tunisia deploys VantagePM system from P.I.Works Ooredoo Tunisia said it will extend its partnership with P.I. Works to include the deployment of its network performance management system...

•	Y Combinator invests in Moroccan B2B eCommerce startup Chari With a monthly growth rate of more than 10% and an expected 2021 turnover of more than US$20 million, the startup is the first Maghrebian startup to join the accelerator’s portfolio...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Smart extends Cambodian 4G coverage Within the first half of 2021, Cambodia’s Smart Axiata has deployed over 300 new base stations to extend its 4G coverage across nine provinces...

•	Australia’s first mmWave 5G network powered by vRAN to use Samsung’s solutions The 5G vRAN trial will be conducted on the 26GHz spectrum using the mmWave technology...

•	SKT offers a glimpse of what mmWave 5G network would be like South Korea’s top wireless carrier SK Telecom said Monday that the company has started a test run of its 5G network running on the 28-gigahertz bandwidth...

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