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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 14, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Saudi Arabia customers benefit from 5G investment with 50% increase in speed
 
 
SpeedChecker, the mobile crowdsourcing company released a new report on the performance of mobile networks in Saudi Arabia. This report is part of an ongoing commitment from SpeedChecker to benchmark true user experience...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  FirstNet brings wireless coverage to first responders in Glenwood Canyon
Member Logo Eagle County public safety agencies have called upon FirstNet®, Built with AT&T to provide new and enhanced wireless coverage in Glenwood Canyon to assist in their response to recent mudslides that closed Interstate...
 
•  Webex by Cisco named official collaboration technology partner of the PGA of Australia and WPGA Tour
Member Logo The Webex Suite and devices will be integrated across the PGA and WPGA Tour, driving collaboration for their respective staff, members and stakeholders...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
CITC to host Digital Technology Forum with focus on investment opportunities in Saudi Arabia
The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) is hosting the first edition of the annual Digital Technology Forum with the theme of “Promising investment opportunities for a digital future"....
 
Croatian regulator assigns new radio frequency spectrum for 5G
The Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries has announced its decision on the assignment for use of radio frequency spectrum in 700 MHz, 3600 MHz, and 26 GHz radiofrequency bands...
 
South Asia
 
Wahyd Logistics activates the first end-to-end logistics marketplace to digitally connect shippers and truckers in Pakistan.
The company–founded in 2017 and headquartered in Islamabad, brings technology into the logistic and trucking business to make goods transportation easy, transparent and cost-effective for all the stakeholders in the...
 
Walton to launch e-commerce platform Walcart
Bangladesh tech company’s new venture Walcart is coming soon with groundbreaking and positive changes in the country’s e-commerce sector...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Azerfon extends LTE coverage
Azerfon (Nar), Azerbaijan’s third largest mobile network operator (MNO) by subscribers, deployed 50 new base transceiver stations (BTS) in the first six months of 2021...
 
NTT launches private 5G network-as-a-service platform
As data and mobility become more critical to business operations, 5G will enable enterprises to reinvent business operations...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
TV Azteca launches streaming service
The app is available on iOS and Android mobile devices, and will be made available to over 100 million existing viewers in partnership with TV Azteca’s international distribution footprint...
 
SPI FilmBox+ extends reach to over 1MN global subscribers
Having rolled out in February 2021, and subsequentially taken up by ten major European operators, SPI International’s FilmBox+ streaming service has now broken through the one million customer barrier worldwide...
 
 
Middle East
 
Bahrain ranks first for ICT talent in the GCC: ITU
The Kingdom of Bahrain was recently ranked as the first in the GCC for availability of advanced computer programming talent in Information and Computer Technology (ICT)...
 
Saudi Arabia’s Tawal plans to add 200 telecom towers annually
Saudi ICT infrastructure company Tawal is planning to build about 200 new towers in the Kingdom every year, to keep pace with the sector’s expansion needs...
 
North Africa
 
Telecom Egypt posts 88% jump in H1 net profit, revenue up 16%
Telecom Egypt posted a net profit of 3.9 billion Egyptian pounds (US$249.20 million) for the first half of 2021, up 88% from the same period last year, the company said in a statement...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Uganda Telecom explores space-based connectivity
Uganda Telecom seeks to provide Ugandans with 100 percent coverage across the country with the help of AST SpaceMobileʼs space-based cellular broadband network, now under construction...
 
Orange claims 11.2Tbps data rate in lab test
Orange Poland has carried out lab trials of multi-core fiber-optic equipment in conjunction with Infinera and InPhoTech, enabling it to reach data transfer rates of up to 11.2Tbps...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Intertelecom to shutter CDMA across Ukraine in November
Ukrainian operator Intertelecom has announced the next phase of its gradual shutdown of CDMA-based wireless services...
 
IBM and Verizon expand Texas lab to test new 5G use cases
IBM and Verizon have expanded facilities at their Industry Solution Lab in Coppell, TX to include an environment for developing and testing 5G-enabled use cases for Industry 4.0 applications...
 
Inmarsat introduces ELERA, a global network for IoT and mobility customers
Inmarsat has unveiled ELERA; a global narrowband network that is ideally suited to the rapidly evolving world of IoT and for global mobility customers...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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