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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 24, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Arkansas advances public safety capabilities with AT&T ESInet
 
 
The Arkansas 911 Board has selected AT&T to implement its Next Generation 9-1-1 (NextGen 9-1-1) AT&T ESInet™ service to improve emergency communications across the state. This new contract will help 9-1-1 telecommunicators, dispatchers and first responders make decisions that will help keep over 3 million people in Arkansas safe...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Batelco employees honoured at Grow & Empower Awards Ceremony
Member Logo Batelco held a virtual awards ceremony to celebrate employees who have successfully completed management and leadership training programmes offered by the company. The two programmes, ‘GROW’ and...
 
•  stc Bahrain wins “Best Consumer Security Solutions” Award with International Finance Awards
Member Logo The award was presented to stc Bahrain in acknowledgment of its digital transformation journey and world-class customer experience. International Finance is a premium business and finance magazine published by UK’s...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Malaysian regulator holds public inquiry on review Access List
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC), a regulatory body whose key role is the regulation of the communications and multimedia industry, is holding a public inquiry to review the Access List...
 
TDRA concludes its virtual summer camp
TDRA's virtual summer camp is a comprehensive and regular event, where we meet to renew our trust in the real future shapers, our children, who are equipped with innovation and constructive thinking for the future...
 
Middle East
 
77% of Oman customers become digital converts since pandemic
77 per cent of customers in Oman have become digital converts since the pandemic and want to keep buying everything online, according to Sitecore, the global leader in digital experience management software...
 
TRSDC partners with SAP to spur digitalisation drive
The Red Sea Development Company has announced its strategic alliance with global technology company SAP to help streamline its digital innovations...
 
Network International to boost acceptance of African mobile wallets in UAE
The growth of more than 80 percent over the five-year period will be fuelled by the increased adoption of digital payments in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic...
 
South Asia
 
SLT-MOBITEL implements akazaLMS training platform for Unilever Sri Lanka
SLT-MOBITEL is supporting Unilever Sri Lanka to empower and motivate staff by providing a flexible and comprehensive online training platform through SLT-MOBITEL’s cloud e-learning solution...
 
Pakistani startup Bazaar raises US$30 million in Series A financing
Bazaar, a year-old B2B marketplace from Pakistan, has raised US$30 million in Series A financing co-led by Silicon Valley-based Defy Partner and Singapore-based Wavemaker Partners...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
US OTT subs to rise to 277 million
The number of OTT subscriptions in the US will increase from nearly 230 million in 2021 to more than 277 million in 2026...
 
T-Mobile offers one year free Apple TV+ to customers
Deutsche Telekom-owned US mobile operator T-Mobile is giving new and existing Magenta and Magenta Max subscribers a year’s free access to Apple TV+...
 
 
North Africa
 
GoDaddy launches website design service for small businesses
The GoDaddy web design team can create fully bilingual websites in both English and Arabic languages to ensure small business owners and entrepreneurs can cater to all of their audiences within Egypt, across the region and...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Vodafone Idea successfully migrates 3G Spectrum to 4G
The latest 3G to 4G spectrum refarming exercise gives Vi the edge of optimum availability and utilization of spectrum to serve the needs of tech-savvy individual customers as well as enterprises...
 
MTN Ghana eyeing 5G launch next year
MTN Ghana’s CEO has expressed his hope that the operator will be able to launch 5G services as early as next year...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
OneWeb reveals LEO flat-panel for terrestrial broadband service
OneWeb has given details of a new user terminal designed to offer high-speed Internet connectivity to businesses, governments and remote communities...
 
Telekom upgrades broadband speeds for 268,000 homes
Telekom Deutschland (TD), the domestic operating unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), upgraded fixed broadband speeds for an additional 268,000 households in July...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vilicom and Virgin Media O2 launch commercial Neutral Host In-Building (NHIB) site
This model also benefits MNOs by offloading traffic from macro cells to the inbuilding networks, making sure that traffic generated by indoor subscribers is served indoors...
 
KT teams up with KAIST to develop hyperscale AI model
The collaboration aims to eventually develop an AI model with more than 200 billion parameters. Higher parameters usually lead to a model's increased capacity...
 
VEON's Beeline to leverage its AI technology for medical diagnosis
Beeline, is collaborating with Russia's Sechenov Medical University in what it expects to be the ground-breaking use of artificial intelligence (AI) technology in diagnostic medicine...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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