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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 17, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Omantel’s ICT offerings fuel digital economy
 
 
This is why at the core of Omantel’s philosophy is the constant endeavour to harness the expanding ICT potential and making it available for the private & public sectors so that they optimally benefit from its infinite scope in different applications...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  AT&T brings 5G to the UT Campus to power research and education
Member Logo The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT) and AT&T are working together to accelerate research and develop innovative new capabilities powered by AT&T 5G using millimeter wave spectrum (5G+) and Multi-Access Edge Computing...
 
•  Tech Mahindra expands collaboration with Microsoft to strengthen hybrid cloud capabilities
Member Logo Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to strengthen hybrid cloud capabilities...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Claro, Altice submit bids for 5G spectrum in Dominican Republic
The Dominican Telecommunications Institute has confirmed that it has received technical and economic offers from Claro Dominicana and Altice Dominicana, ahead of its planned sale of the 5G spectrum...
 
Saudi Justice Ministry launches new digital platform
The portal aims to promote transparency, provide a unified electronic platform for judicial information, boost the judicial and academic community's knowledge...
 
South Asia
 
Banglalink 'fastest mobile internet network' in Bangladesh
Banglalink has earned the top spot on the latest Ookla Speedtest Award report for Bangladesh during Q1-Q2 2021 with a speed score of 17.12...
 
Nepal Telecom mulls phone assembly or refurbished industry
With cell phones emerging as Nepal's third-largest import product, Nepal is mulling allowing firms to assemble or refurbish sets domestically to create jobs...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
eMedia launches new video on-demand service with MTN
eVOD is eMedia Investments’ new online viewing platform in an exclusive three-year partnership with mobile telecoms partner MTN...
 
Elisa Estonia launches hybrid Android TV service
The Estonian multiservice provider Elisa has gone live with its next-generation super-aggregated Elisa Elasmus service...
 
Vodafone adds TV Now Premium, promises targeted ads in expanded RTL deal
Vodafone said it would make the content of RTL available in streaming and linear TV to its more than 13 million TV...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vodafone Ukraine plans to acquire telecom operator Vega
The mobile operator Vodafone Ukraine plans to acquire more than 50% of the shares of the telecom operator Vega...
 
Tet opens new data center in Riga, Latvia
Latvian telecommunications company Tet has opened its sixth data centre in capital Riga, as it plans to grow its data centre business by 15% per year...
 
 
Middle East
 
Arc expands its network footprint in Bahrain with presence in Global Zone
The expansion in Bahrain follows the launch of Arc’s software-defined networking (SDN) nodes in datamena and Etisalat SmartHub data centres in June 2021...
 
AMF issues policy guide on adopting DLT, blockchain
The Arab Monetary Fund (AMF) has issued a policy guide to develop the fintech industry and support digital financial transformation in Arab countries by adopting distributed ledger technology (DLT) and blockchain...
 
Fintech is driving Saudi Arabia toward a cashless society
To support the fintech industry, Fintech Saudi was launched by SAMA in partnership with the Capital Market Authority in April 2018 to act as a catalyst for the development of the fintech industry in the Kingdom...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt to launch first satellite by university students next year
The designs for the satellite have been finalized and environmental tests are currently underway to test its readiness for launching into space...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
95 percent Fijians access mobile internet 3G, 4G, 4G+
Ninety-five percent of all Fijians, which is 817,425 Fijian citizens, now have access to mobile internet connectivity, across 3G, 4G, and 4G+ networks...
 
XL Axiata gets green light to launch 5G in Indonesia
Indonesia’s XL Axiata has received a 5G network operating licence from the country’s Ministry of Communication and Information, known as KemKominfo...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
KAUST to launch a research satellite for monitoring ecosystems by the end of 2022
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and Spire, will launch the "KAUST CubeSat" research satellite by the end of 2022...
 
Broadband boost for Seychelles operator Intelvision
Broadband network and digital services offered in Seychelles will soon get a boost from a new cable system that will be leased by Seychelles-based telecommunications provider Intelvision Limited...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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