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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 23, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Batelco signs MoU with American University of Bahrain
 
 
Batelco signed an MoU with the American University of Bahrain (AUBH), the Kingdom’s first American-style University, to jointly launch academic and extracurricular initiatives, which aim at enriching the students learning experience and prepare them for their future...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  AT&T providing wireless and wireline customers unlimited talk and text to Haiti
Member Logo In response to the recent earthquake in Haiti, AT&T is supporting efforts to keep our customers connected...
 
•  Arthur D. Little appoints Ashish Sharma as Partner
Member Logo Arthur D. Little (ADL) has Ashish Sharma has joined the company as a Partner. This continues on from a series of local appointments to strengthen ADL’s presence in India as it scales its regional footprint...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  AT&T and GM redefine automotive connectivity with 5G
 
•  solutions by stc hosts virtual event on Cisco technology
 
•  The global cybersecurity market will grow to US$281 billion in 2027
 
•  Omantel’s ICT offerings fuel digital economy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
CITC publishes a consultation on spectrum light licensing
The purpose of this public consultation is to provide interested parties with an opportunity to submit their views on the introduction of the light licensing regime and its various aspects...
 
Uruguay selects MNP database administrator
Uruguay’s Regulatory Unit of Communications Services has selected a database administrator, which will be responsible for implementing and developing mobile number portability in the country...
 
Middle East
 
Majority of Saudi’s move to online; e-commerce boost across ME
Saudi's move to online purchasing increased significantly with around 95 percent of customers in the Kingdom moving to online since pandemic...
 
SLA Digital starts carrier billing for meplay with Devco
SLA Digital has teamed up with Devco to give customers the option to charge items from their meplay service direct to their mobile phone bill, with hassle-free mobile payments...
 
World’s first cloud-native platform for banks launched in UAE
The world’s first cloud-native, fully integrated cash management platform, powered by microservices and Open Banking APIs for banks in Middle East & North Africa (Mena) has been launched in the UAE...
 
North Africa
 
AOI inks cooperation protocol with Egyptian Space Agency
The Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI) has signed a protocol of cooperation with the Egyptian Space Agency for the localisation of space technology...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Wurl riding CTV and FAST wave to growth
Streaming TV technology provider Wurl saw a 38% increase in revenue in Q2 of this year over the first quarter, which it said was down to growth in connected TV and free ad-supported TV (FAST) channels and platform...
 
Amazon Prime Video now available on DNA Hubi devices
The contents of the DNA TV Hubi service, based on the open Android ecosystem, expanded again as the popular movies and TV series of Amazon Prime Video became available in the service...
 
 
South Asia
 
Bangladesh advances by 27 stages in the National Cyber Security Index of Foundation
The National Cyber Security Index (NCSI) was established to evaluate basic cyberattack preparedness, cyber events, criminal activity, and major crisis management efforts...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Vodafone Turkey tests DSS for UMTS/LTE-A 2100MHz services
Vodafone Turkey has claimed a first in the country by testing Dynamic Spectrum Sharing between its 3G UMTS and ‘4.5G’ LTE-A networks...
 
Telekom Austria selects vendors for 5G rollouts in Eastern Europe
A1 Telekom Austria Group plans to cover all major populated places and main roads with the technology in its coverage areas within the next five years...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
New satellite company founded in South Africa
AAC Space Africa will design, build, and deliver space missions to the continent from its Cape Town base in South Africa's Western Cape Province...
 
Ritter Communications connects Fayetteville business customers to FTTP network
The company has based it FTTP network on XGS-PON, enabling symmetrical 10-Gbps transmission...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Telia and Ekobot team up for 5G farming robot
The autonomous robots will eliminate weeds on agricultural land, reducing the reliance on chemical herbicides...
 
Liberty Global launches Intelligent WiFi in Poland and Netherlands
Nearly 3 million Liberty Global customers in Poland and the Netherlands are to receive a free upgrade to new game-changing Intelligent WiFi services...
 
Teraco competes JB3 data centre facility in South Africa
Teraco has completed the JB3 data centre facility, which is sited on the Isando Campus in Ekurhuleni, east of Johannesburg...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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