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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
July 24, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
New FirstNet cell site turned on in Dorchester County
 
 
Dorchester County’s first responders are getting another major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet® network expansion currently underway by AT&T. The new site was announced during a special event that featured national, state, and local officials, including representatives from the federal First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority), local first responders, and officials from AT&T...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Airtel launches Cisco next-gen SD-WAN connectivity solutions for enterprises
Member Logo The solution will enable businesses, large and small, to accelerate digital transformation for their customers and allow organizations to deliver applications to users with greater visibility, security and performance...
 
•  China Unicom Beijing and Huawei launch world-first thousand-site 5G super uplink network
Member Logo It is the first thousand-site 5G network of its kind, with ubiquitous, high-quality traits that make its construction a major achievement for the two parties, and a big step towards the adoption of Super Uplink as a...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Chile's Subtel announces tender for fiber optic project
Chilean telecommunications regulator has announced the launch of a public tender for the deployment of a fiber optic project in the country’s Tarapacá region...
 
MoH announces an update for ‘Immune’ app
Kuwait’s Ministry of Health announced that a new update is available for ‘Immune’ application that allows users to add their vaccine information, COVID-19 test results for one or six companions...
 
South Asia
 
Jazz claims massive MIMO first for Pakistan
Pakistani operator Jazz has announced a successful roll-out of massive MIMO technology, which, it says, enhances the 4G experience...
 
Sri Lanka Telecom launches gaming, eSports platform with Swarmio
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) has become one of the latest service providers to partner up with a gaming company to capitalize on the booming market, which saw significant growth during the COVID-19 pandemic...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
CNN to launch streaming service
Commenting on the new service, Jeff Zucker, chairman of WarnerMedia News and Sports and president of CNN Worldwide, said it would be the evolution of video news and the start of a new era for the company...
 
Redbox turns to Wurl for Free Live TV expansion
Redbox has built up the Free Live TV streaming service to 100 channels of programming available online and on a number of devices including Apple TV, Android TV, Xbox games consoles, and smartphones...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vodafone Fiji selects Aryaka for enterprise SD-WAN
Vodafone Fiji has tapped Aryaka Networks to provide it with SD-WAN solutions so that it can provide fast and secure connectivity to enterprise customers in the Pacific region...
 
IBM’s H1 revenue edges up 2% to US$36.5 billion
IBM said that its revenues for the six-month period (H1) ended June 30, 2021, totaled US$36.5 billion, an increase of 2 percent year to year compared with US$35.7 billion for the first six months of 2020...
 
 
Middle East
 
Careem rolls out new ride-hailing services in Bahrain-Saudi Arabia
Careem, the region’s first multi-service app, has expanded its intercity ride-hailing service from Bahrain to the Saudi Arabia, allowing users to book a luxury car ride across cities at their convenience...
 
Dubai advances with ICS cybersecurity standards
In response to increasingly sophisticated and dangerous threat situations, Dubai became the first emirate in the UAE, applying standardized cybersecurity to industrial control systems (ICS)...
 
North Africa
 
Telecom Egypt introduces VOLTE Service in Egypt
This provides customers with a high quality of voice calls and allow them to make calls and use data services via 4G technology at the same time...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Telkom Kenya scaling up its 4G network
The company’s primary focus is to improve telecommunications and infrastructure in the country as they hope to bridge the digital divide between first and third-world countries...
 
T-Mobile wants 3,000 5G base stations by end-September
T-Mobile Poland is expecting to have 3,000 5G base stations in service by the end of September, with the operator saying it is adding around 120 new 5G sites each week...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
iSAT inks partnership deal with SES Networks to deliver 4G in rural East Africa
Under the deal, iSAT Africa will utilise the satellite telecommunications network provider’s constellation of medium earth orbit O3b and O3b mPOWER satellites, it announced...
 
Openreach UK trials new approach to FTTP broadband installs
Openreach this week announced the launch of a new ‘Build to the Wall‘ (BTTW) trial for UK ISPs selling their gigabit-capable Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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