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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
November 1, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Zain participates in Global Digital Power Summit 2021
 
 
Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, participated in the Global Digital Power Summit 2021, organized by Huawei on the sidelines of GITEX in Dubai, with the aim of enabling organizations to seize the opportunities inherent in renewable energy by relying on digital technologies to achieve sustainability goals...
 
Half a million rural homes added to Project Gigabit plans
This investment is levelling up in action – building new internet connections in rural communities so people have the speed, reliability and freedom to live and work flexibly, and take advantage of new technologies...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  stc reports KD 213.8 mn revenue and KD 23.8 million net profit
Member Logo Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc), a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced its financial results for the...
 
•  Ahmed Aldoseri appointed CEO of BNET
Member Logo Bahrain Network (BNET) announced the appointment of Mr. Ahmed Jaber Aldoseri as its Chief Executive Officer, a former member of the company's Board of Directors...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Investing in Fixed Network Infrastructure to Boost Regional Digital Economy
 
•  Zain acknowledged with three awards at the SAMENA Council endorsed MEA Business Achievement Awards
 
•  “SAMENA Accelerator – UBBF” Calls for Action to Achieve Ultra Broadband Policy Enablement and to Timely Address Challenges Facing Fiber Deployment and IPv6 Migration in the Region
 
•  Smiles welcomes Shukran to its blockchain-powered Rewards Exchange
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Global Innovation Forum strengthens partnerships to mainstream entrepreneurship
​​​The 2021 edition of the Global Innovation Forum, held by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) from 25 to 29 October, focused on “building partnerships to mainstream entrepreneurship" and...
 
Montenegro to hold 5G auction in December
Montenegro’s telecoms watchdog the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services has launched a public tender to award technology neutral licences for wireless frequencies in the 900MHz, 1800MHz, 2GHz and...
 
Middle East
 
MBRSC sign agreement with UN agency for satellite payload hosting
The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote technical development and cooperation in the peaceful uses of...
 
Asiacell to expand its LTE network
As digital transformation progresses across Iraq, with digital banking, data-driven financial systems, e-learning, and e-government services growing in popularity, the need for fast and reliable connectivity provided by LTE...
 
Dubai Police to introduce security analysis and forecasting centre
The Dubai Police has officially adopted a strategic plan to establish a security analysis and forecasting centre to create an AI-enabled and centralised platform that supports the force's officials in the decision-making...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Azercell expands LTE network coverage, transfer rates
Azercell has announced its LTE network now covers 85.65% of the population and 74.30% of territory following additional site deployments and upgrades in the first nine months of the year...
 
MTS, Ericsson to build private 5G networks for industrial enterprises in Russia
Mobile TeleSystems and Ericsson have signed a strategic partnership to develop private 5G-ready networks (dedicated networks) for industrial enterprises in Russia...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Thales Alenia Space and Telkom Indonesia to build HTS 113BT telecom satellite to provide more capacity over Indonesia
Built on Thales Alenia Space’s historical Spacebus 4000B2 platform, HTS 113BT will provide more than 32 Gbps capacity over Indonesia. The satellite will weigh about 4 metric tons at launch and will be delivered early...
 
Half a million rural homes added to Project Gigabit plans
This investment is levelling up in action – building new internet connections in rural communities so people have the speed, reliability and freedom to live and work flexibly, and take advantage of new technologies...
 
 
South Asia
 
Xiaomi to start manufacturing devices in Pakistan
Company says it is targeting production of an estimated 2.5-3 million Xiaomi smartphones in Pakistan annually...
 
Nepal Telecom establishes optical fiber link
Nepal Telecom, the state-owned public telecom service provider establishes optical fiber backhaul link to the remote & mountain tourist hub district of Solukhumbu...
 
SLT-MOBITEL Mobile partners Zoho to offer seamless, customer-centric, cloud-based business solutions
SLT-MOBITEL Mobile Business Solutions (MBS), announced the tie-up with Zoho recently, a global technology corporation, to offer an extensive array of innovative business solutions to Sri Lankan customers...
 
North Africa
 
Tunisia: TELNET Group increases revenues by 20% at end September
This evolution is marked, essentially by the increase in business volume in Electronic Banking activity (+24.5%), the MultiMedia activity (+15%) and the Telecom activity (+2%)...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Pluto TV launches in Italy with 40 original channels
Pluto TV, the free ad-supported streaming service from ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) launches in Italy, with 40 original channels across different genres available.
 
Russia’s NTV-Plus ends 3Q with OTT 205,000 subscribers
NTV Plus, the Russian digital satellite television service from NTV, said that the subscriber base of its OTT platform exceeded the threshold of 205,000 in the third quarter of this year...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Liquid and Orange form telecoms alliance
Two international telecoms operators hope for improved connectivity and cybersecurity across Africa through a new partnership...
 
Airtel Africa and UNICEF announce multi-million dollar partnership to scale-up digital learning for children across Africa
Airtel Africa and UNICEF announced a five-year pan-African partnership to help accelerate the roll-out of digital learning through connecting schools to the internet and ensuring free access to learning platforms across 13...
 
Hungary, Huawei sign MoU on long-term cooperation
The agreement focuses on the digital transformation of education, the development of 5G and fixed networks, and "smart city" products, according to the Hungarian agency MTI citing a statement from Huawei...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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