SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
December 12, 2021 |
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Featured Member News |
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Huawei honored at the 3rd cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Awards |
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Huawei has been awarded the prestigious 'Best Performance Award' and the 'Outstanding Performance Award' during the 3rd cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MRM) Business Innovation Awards. The awards were presented to Jiawei Liu, CEO of Huawei UAE, by H.H. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation Authority, Chairman and Chief Executive of Emirates Airline and Group, and Chairman of the Expo 2020 Dubai Higher Committee...
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Policy and Regulation |
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Icasa issues spectrum ITA
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) has issued the final Invitation to Apply (ITA) for the licensing process for the International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT) spectrum...
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Brazil’s 5G spectrum officially authorised for use
Brazilian regulator Anatel (Agencia Nacional de Telecomunicacoes / National Telecommunications Agency) has confirmed that the country’s government has authorised the 700MHz, 2.3GHz, 3.5GHz and 26GHz spectrum bands for...
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Middle East |
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Saudi Arabia, Egypt discuss IT cooperation
Amr Talaat, Egypt’s minister of communications and information technology, and Haytham Al-Ohali, Saudi deputy minister of communications and IT, discussed ways to enhance bilateral cooperation, particularly with regard...
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Tarabut Gateway, Zain Bahrain unite to offer open banking payments in telco app
MENA open banking platform Tarabut Gateway this week announced a partnership with Zain Bahrain to provide the region’s first use case of open banking payments within a telco app...
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Arqit joins Neom to build 'Cognitive City’ quantum security system
This trial will see the two organisations develop new software capable of defending cognitive cities against cyber-attacks from the most advanced computers to emerge in coming years...
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High mobile, internet penetration boost use of e-government services in Oman
Nintey-four per cent of household members own a mobile phone, and 93 percent of the surveyed individuals use the Internet, in the Sultanate, a survey has revealed...
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Global Telecom Update |
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Equinix adds data centres as Perth gets connected
Data centre operator Equinix has opened its third facility in Perth, a US$72 million investment into the Western Australian capital’s emerging role as a digital gateway between Australia, Asia-Pacific and the Middle...
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AWS throws down the gauntlet in private 5G sector
AWS said enterprises can now procure, deploy and scale their own 5G mobile network in days instead of months, with users specifying a coverage area within a geographic location where they want to deploy a private 5G network,...
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NT works with Supernap to upgrade cloud services
National Telecom (NT) has partnered with Supernap Thailand, a data centre service provider, to upgrade its national data centres and cloud services, and ensure 100% uptime of cloud service usage among government agencies...
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Disclaimer: Information contained herein has been obtained from sources, which we deem reliable. SAMENA Telecommunications Council is not liable for any misinformed decisions that the reader may reach by being solely reliant on information contained herein. Expert advice should be sought. |
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