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October 13, 2021

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Huawei's Ken Hu Calls on ICT Industry to Work Together on Next Stage of 5G Development

Huawei's 12th annual Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF) kicked off in Dubai with a keynote from the company's Rotating Chairman, Ken Hu. He spoke on the current state of 5G development and new opportunities moving forward. "In just five years of commercial deployment, 5G has provided a considerable upgrade in mobile experience for consumers, and it's already starting to empower different industries around the globe...

SAMENA Council Identifies Two-Pronged Challenge of Expediting 5G Development and Connecting the Still Un-connected; Shares Recommendations to Tackle Broadband Financing and Funding Gaps at the 12th Global MBBF in Dubai

Supporting Huawei’s 12th Global Mobile Broadband Forum (MBBF 2021) as the region’s premier industry body and presenting the case for Telecom Operators to be better incentivized on future infrastructure investments, SAMENA Telecommunications Council, represented by Bocar BA, CEO & Board Member, highlighted that 5G will be a widespread reality only if financial resources are dedicated to its development along with necessary policy and regulatory enablement steps. “This is at a time when we also require unlocking access to capital for ensuring universal broadband access for all, including the still un-connected populations in the region. So, the challenge is double: developing 5G and connecting the still-unconnected”...

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Accenture, Etisalat Digital, and Oracle collaborate to offer digital transformation and journey to Oracle cloud solutions in the Middle East

Accenture, Etisalat Digital, and Oracle have signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) to offer SMBs and large enterprise clients in the Middle East a seamless digital transformation and journey to Oracle cloud...

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stc Masters’ grand finale open to viewers through live stream

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced that it will be live streaming...

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Explore and experience the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’ with Smiles

Etisalat announced that its rewards and engagement programme Smiles is offering residents and visitors a complimentary Expo 2020 Dubai one-day ticket to witness the greatest show on Earth...

Recent Developments

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Zain holds Ordinary General Assembly; agrees to distribute a semi-annual cash dividend of 10 fils, totaling US$150 million

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Batelco brings Apple Pay to customers

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Omantel along with Hutchison Ports Sohar and Huawei completes the first 5G smart port PoC in Middle East

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Etisalat Group announces the appointment of its new Group Chief Operations Officer

Policy and Regulation

•	TDRA adds the finishing touches to the unified Gitex stand TDRA will also showcase the most prominent developments, figures and statistics related to UAEPass, digital signature, digital vault, and other innovative initiatives...

•	Regulators, operators agree on 5G development plans for Lithuania Lithuania’s Ministry of Transport and Communications, the Communications Regulatory Authority, other public sector institutions and telecoms operators have agreed on strategic actions for the implementation of 5G...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Czech internet TV service expands to Poland According to Digizone, its offer is similar to that in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, where the service is also present, consisting of almost 100 TV channels, 62 of which are in HD, in three packages and including all...

•	discovery+ to launch in Canada on October 19 discovery+ offers viewers access to more than 200 exclusive series and 60,000 episodes of series from networks including HGTV, Food Network, TLC, ID, OWN, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Magnolia...

Satellite & Internet

•	Prysmian Group extends partnership with Openreach Prysmian Group said it will provide ‘innovation and expertise’ to support Openreach’s updated full fiber broadband build plan, under which the British company aims to reach a total of 25 million premises...

•	Inmarsat to offer global satellite IoT in deal with Dutch start-up The agreement pairs Inmarsat’s Elera IoT network with Hiber’s IoT-as-a-service ecosystem to provide what the two companies called “easy-to-use, low power and cost-effective IoT solutions and services to...

Global Telecom Update

•	Rostelecom opens new data center in Moscow Russia’s national telecommunications operator Rostelecom announced that it has commissioned a new data center NORD-6 in Moscow...

•	Peachtree and T-Mobile launch Beep autonomous shuttle fleet Peachtree Corners and T-Mobile 5G have launched a new fleet of Beep autonomous shuttles, known as PAUL (Piloting Autonomous Use Locally), for residents in the Georgia city this autumn...

•	Vodafone Business extends digitalization support for SMEs through V-Hub with free testing option of the digital solutions The new option adds to the other features offered within the platform, such as the possibility to contact a Vodafone Business consultant for further information and expertise on digitalization, for free...

Middle East

•	‘UAE Industry 4.0’ will place UAE at centre of global Fourth Industrial Revolution The newly-announced Fourth Industrial Revolution Programme, known as "UAE Industry 4.0," announced by the UAE’s Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) will help encourage innovations in 4IR technologies...

•	Waseela brings wireless gigabit connectivity to the Middle East with the ADTRAN fixed wireless solution Waseela will offer ADTRAN’s solution to extend symmetric Gigabit services to support residential and business applications where fiber is prohibitively expensive to deploy...

•	Jordan ranks 96th in the world in Digital Quality of Life Index 2021 Covering 90% of the global population, the DQL study is conducted by the cybersecurity company Surfshark and evaluates countries based on a set of five fundamental digital wellbeing pillars...

•	36 Russian ICT companies to take part in Gitex 2021 Thirty-six Russian ICT companies, who have created their niche in cybersecurity, anti-virus, artificial intelligence, mechatronics and robotics, will take part in Gitex Technology Week 2021 with the support of JSC Russian...

South Asia

•	Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir to have 4G internet services Meanwhile, state-owned telecom service in the region, SCO, established in 1976 to connect the remote region with the rest of the country has been granted 20 mega hertz of spectrum free of cost as all its earnings are...

•	Broadband internet providers eye growth in Bangladesh The coronavirus pandemic and the resultant extended homestays fuelled the demand for internet for education and home office, encouraging the internet service providers (ISPs) to expand their services up to the upazila...

North Africa

•	Orange inaugurates the 5th Orange Digital Center in Africa and the Middle East So far, eight Orange Digital Centers have already opened in the region: Tunisia, Senegal, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Jordan, Morocco, and Malim which means other inaugurations are still to come in 2021 and...

•	Egypt's Fawry pumps its 1st foreign investment into Sudanese alsoug.com Fawry for Banking Technology and Electronic Payments announced its success in concluding an investment deal with the platform "alsoug.com"...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	4G coverage at all Felda land resettlement schemes soon Malaysia will give priority to all 317 land resettlement schemes under the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) in the country to have 4G network connectivity in the near future...

•	Grupo Datco plots fixed-wireless 5G trial Buenos Aires-based B2B connectivity provider Grupo Datco has unveiled plans to stage a fixed-wireless 5G trial using equipment...

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