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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 12, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Huawei honored at the 3rd cycle of the Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Business Innovation Awards
 
 
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...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain awarded ‘Best Brand’ at Telecom Review Excellence Awards 2021
Member Logo Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces its Zain brand has been identified as the ‘Best Brand’ for telecom in the Middle East for 2021 at the...
 
•  Tech Mahindra achieves premier consulting partner status in the AWS Partner Network
Member Logo This tier is awarded through successful demonstration of competence on multiple fronts such as technical proficiency, customer satisfaction, thought leadership, and revenue recognition...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Qatar continues to benefit from its early adoption of 5G
 
•  Indonesia’s Luhut invites Huawei to enhance collaboration in smart future and new energy
 
•  Recognized increase of internet traffic by 740% and circuit’s voice by 800% during the stc Formula 1 Saudi Grand Prix and 67% of audience from Europe, America & Japan
 
•  Huawei’s smart railway solution and connectivity support new China-Laos high-speed train
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
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...
 
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...
 
North Africa
 
Jumia to offer payment services to Egypt firms with new license
Jumia Technologies AG, one of Africa’s largest e-commerce companies, plans to offer its digital payments services to Egyptian firms, seeking to capitalize on a surge of cashless transactions in the Arab world’s...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
2G and 3G to be phased out by 2033
The government and UK mobile network operators (MNOs) have together announced they have established all public 2G and 3G networks in the UK will have been switched off by 2033...
 
Orange Slovakia begins trial of 4G in 700MHz band
Orange Slovakia has launched live trials of 4G services using the 700MHz band, licences for which were awarded last year to support 5G technology...
 
Verizon expands 5G business internet to Jacksonville
Verizon has expanded its 5G internet to home and business customers in Jacksonville, making it one of about 60 cities in the country to have access to the service...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
AXIAN partners with Zattoo TV Platform to bring state of the art IPTV & OTT entertainment to Madagascar
Telma's new TV service comes with a wide range of features including nPVR, 7-day catch up and instant restart...
 
TVP expands to Latvia
It adds that the move follows an agreement between Latvia’s Ministry of Culture and TVP and is designed to both counter disinformation and to acknowledge the presence of Poles living in Latvia...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Virgin Orbit adds Spire satellite to next launch
Virgin Orbit will fly a Spire cubesat in addition to several other payloads on its next LauncherOne launch, scheduled for no earlier than Dec. 22...
 
Deutsche Glasfaser to connect 550,000 Bavarian homes to FTTH
Deutsche Glasfaser has announced that it aims to supply around 550,000 households in Bavaria with fiber-optics by the end of 2025...
 
 
Middle East
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
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...
 
South Asia
 
Bangladesh rolls out 5G
Bangladesh joined more than 60 other countries as it rolls out the fifth-generation (5G) of mobile internet connectivity on 12 December 2021...
 
SLT-Mobitel’s mCash continues to extend support to LankaQR nationwide campaign
SLT-Mobitel’s mobile money platform, mCash, has teamed up with the LankaQR nationwide rollout campaign introduced by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) which aims to promote and popularise the digital payment method...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
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...
 
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,...
 
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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