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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
September 15, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Telstra and Cisco renew agreement to offer businesses added visibility and insights to monetize IoT
 
 
Telstra and Cisco announced plans for continued collaboration with a new five-year agreement to provide advanced connectivity management for Internet of Things (IoT) services with Telstra Control Center powered by Cisco...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Omantel Summer Kids Program 2021 successfully concludes
Member Logo This year’s program was held in collaboration with Engineering Village, an Omani youth organization working to spread the culture of innovation and passion for scientific exploration through experiments and practical...
 
•  Mobily signs agreement to scale up 5G technology applications in the region
Member Logo To enhance its position in 5G services and accelerate the use of 5G applications by all sectors and consumers in Saudi Arabia, Mobily has signed an agreement to exchange experiences and avail of its global program for...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Mexican telecoms regulator approves Univision, Televisa content tie-up
Mexico's telecommunications regulator IFT said that it had authorized the plan for U.S.-based Spanish-language broadcaster Univision to acquire the content business of Mexico's Grupo Televisa in a deal to create a...
 
South Asia
 
Digital freight marketplace BridgeLinx raises US$10 million in Pakistan’s largest seed round
BridgeLinx helps businesses, mainly large manufacturers and retailers, move freight by connecting them with carriers—truckers, owner-operators, transporters, and private fleets—through its online marketplace...
 
BSCCL approves draft contract for third submarine cable
The third submarine cable is widely known as the South East Asia–Middle East-Western Europe-6 (SEA-ME-WE-6) Consortium...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Telefónica integrates Rakuten Living App on Movistar+
Telefónica has teamed up with Rakuten to launch the Rakuten Living App as part of the Movistar+ pay TV service offering in Spain...
 
World’s top five trading apps hit 14 million users
RobinHood, WeBull, Fidelity Investments, E*Trade and eToro, as the world's top five trading apps, doubled the number of users in the last year to nearly 14 million as of July, according to new data...
 
Netplus.ch taps Agama for OTT quality assurance
Swiss service provider netplus.ch has turned to quality assurance technology specialist Agama Technologies to extend its video analytics and monitoring solution with additional coverage in the headend and to all types of OTT...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vodafone’s mobile financial service celebrates reaching 50 million customers across Africa
M-Pesa, Vodafone’s mobile financial services has reached 50 million monthly active customers, cementing its position as Africa’s largest fintech platform...
 
TIM launches two new open RAN solutions on its network
The aim is to accelerate the development of 5G digital services and Edge Computing through centralised and cloud-based functions for the benefit of citizens and businesses...
 
Vodacom invests in Safaricom's new mobile telecoms company in Ethiopia
Vodacom Group Ltd. said that it has agreed to fund Safaricom Telecommunications Ethiopia PLC, a new mobile telecommunications services provider in Ethiopia...
 
 
Middle East
 
Telesur Suriname awards USSD Gateway supply to Globitel
Jordan-based telecom and contact centre services provider Globitel has been awarded a contract to supply its USSD Gateway product to Telecommunications Company Suriname...
 
Anarock launches smart community management proptech platform ANACITY for Middle East, Africa
Launching from Dubai, ANACITY will expand to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kenya, Nigeria & South Africa...
 
ME operators ‘playing key role in global connectivity’
Subsea cable providers located in the Middle East are uniquely positioned to meet the new exploding demand for high-quality connectivity in the region and beyond, a report said...
 
Bahrain-based Benefit integrates insurance sector to eKYC platform
Benefit, Bahrain’s sole electronic financial transactions operator, has integrated the insurance sector into the national electronic know your customer or eKYC platform...
 
North Africa
 
Egyptian fintech startup Kashat raises US$1.75 million bridge funding round
Cairo-based microloan solutions fintech, Kashat, has secured US$1.75 million in a bridge round led by Pan-African fund, Launch Africa Ventures, with participation from a number of key regional investors and existing...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Opensignal examine the impact of 4G spectrum on UK 5G speeds
A new study from Opensignal has highlighted how mobile broadband users in Germany, Italy and the UK saw significantly faster 5G average download speeds when they were also connected to additional amounts of 4G spectrum,...
 
MTS expands Moscow 4.9GHz 5G pilot zones
Russian cellular market leader Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) has increased the number of 4.9GHz 5G user pilot zones in Moscow, from 14 to 19, while increasing the pilot zones’ total coverage area threefold...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Kacific launches new broadband service
Kacific Broadband Satellites is working to bring a new internet service dedicated to businesses in the markets where it operates...
 
China launches world’s first 16 fiber pair repeatered submarine cable
The network facilitates a direct connection between Hainan and Hong Kong, underpinning Hainan as an emerging interconnection hub in the Asia-Pacific region...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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