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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 22, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
stc shareholders approve amendments in Extraordinary General Assembly
 
 
Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, held an Extraordinary General Assembly (EGM) to discuss items on the agenda in the presence of a quorum of %78.669 shareholders...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain Kuwait resolute 5G investment delivers business success
Member Logo Zain Kuwait has firmly invested in 5G for the fastest network construction with the widest coverage, building a foundation for user experience...
 
•  Etisalat marks historical day with over 100 graduates onboarded in 2021
Member Logo Etisalat marked a historic Emiratisation milestone with the record intake of more than 100 graduates to the AI Graduate Programme in 2021...
 
•  Nokia wins five-year 5G deal with Elisa Estonia as RAN vendor
Member Logo Nokia announced that it has been selected by Elisa Estonia, a subsidiary of Elisa Finland, for a nationwide 5G RAN deployment as well as to replace the existing 4G infrastructure in a five-year deal. Nokia will replace the...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
ITIDA hosts virtual employment fair for local talent to meet rising demand for outsourcing industry in Egypt
The Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) has organized its annual Employment Fair, through which 40 global and local ICT companies have brought job opportunities closer to young Egyptian talents and...
 
Czechia extends 2,100 MHz licence allocation
The Czech Telecommunication Office (Cesky telekomunikacni urad, CTU) has extended the allocation of frequencies to operators in the 2100 MHz band for another 20 years...
 
Middle East
 
Yahsat ties with Emirates Schools Establishment
Yahsat and Emirates Schools Establishment has enabled high-speed internet connectivity via satellite to support smart learning for 300 students in remote areas of the UAE...
 
Nanosatellites to support digitalisation of Dubai’s power, water networks
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) has selected NanoAvionics to design, build, test, and manage the launching of two nanosatellites 3U and 6U...
 
Ooredoo Kuwait announces its strategic partnership with AlNajat Charity to build up a digitalized infrastructure
Will provide a set of state-of-the-art Data Center, Cloud, Cyber security and ICT solutions to host AlNajat Charity servers' network infrastructures and main websites...
 
South Asia
 
Nagad leads digitization of Bangladesh’s financial services
The e-KYC is a process of opening accounts by capturing photos of both sides of the national identity card using a smartphone without visiting any office or filling up ordinary papers...
 
Digital payments for expressways launched in Sri Lanka
The inauguration ceremony to digitalize the expressway manual toll collection payments via the ‘LANKAQR’ payment app was held recently...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Wealthface launches advanced investing app
Wealthface, an Investment management company, has launched its Invest App for passive investors in the Middle East and in the US on Android and IOS...
 
Balticum TV opts for CommScope
CommScope and Ektra have teamed up to provide Balticum TV customers in Lithuania with the VIP100 UHD set-top solution...
 
 
North Africa
 
Egypt boosts integrated telecommunication services in hotels, tourist villages
It comes within the framework of the cooperation protocol signed between the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and the Signal Department of the Armed Forces...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Three and EE to provide 4G across London Underground
Three and EE have agreed on a deal to provide 4G mobile connectivity across the London Underground for their mobile customers...
 
Tele2 readies to roll 5G in Latvia
Tele2 AB, a mobile network operator (MNO) in Latvia, has secured a crucial spectrum in the Latvian 700 MHz spectrum auction...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
OneWeb commercial launch delayed ‘five or six months’
BT and other wholesale partners of satellite company OneWeb will start testing services in January, Capacity understands, with commercial services likely to be on offer several months later...
 
Fastweb carries 600 Gbps wavelength across 1,372km with Infinera
Fastweb, one of the main telecom providers in Italy, completed a single-wavelength service connectivity speed trial of 600 Gb/s across its network, including the Milan-Bari optical route spanning 1,372 kilometers...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
NECcontributes to NTT DOCOMO's 5G Standalone (SA) services launch with packet core
NEC's 5G Core for SA enables flexible operation for a variety of services thanks to its cloud-native architecture, featuring container and separation of Control and User Plane (CUPS)...
 
Indosat Ooredoo prepares 44-petabyte capacity
Indosat Oordeoo, a telecommunications provider in Indonesia, prepares a network capacity of 44 PB per day to meet the needs of the community’s digital activity which is predicted to increase during Christmas and New...
 
Globe, Smart repair ops in ‘Odette’-hit areas ‘nearing completion’
Two of the country’s largest telecommunications providers said restoration efforts in areas heavily affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Odette are already nearing completion...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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