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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 26, 2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
stc signs 3 agreements and launches the new data center in Jeddah
 
 
Through these agreements, stc also seeks to accelerate the stages of advanced digital transformation, consolidate the Kingdom’s role as a regional digital hub for cloud computing that attracts innovation-based technology investments in the region by providing cloud services to public and private entities and contributing to storing and processing their data...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Omantel wins top honours at Alam Al-Iktissad Wal-Amal (AIWA) awards
Member Logo Omantel, Sultanate’s pioneering integrated telecommunications services provider, bagged top honours at the recently held Alam Al-Iktissad Wal-Amal (AIWA) awards. While Omantel was named the ‘Nation Builder of the...
 
•  Move your business online with “eSuite” from Batelco
Member Logo “Batelco eSuite” enables merchants to create online stores within minutes through few easy steps; signing up, listing items with photos, prices, and quantities, and their ready to sell, without any paperwork or...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Congolese regulator to understudy Nigeria’s telecoms market
Brazzaville Telecommunications Regulations Authority (CTRA) has expressed its readiness to tap from the success of Nigeria’s telecoms market...
 
Ethiopia suspends second telecom license tender process
Ethiopia is suspending the tender process for its second telecommunications license and will relaunch it in the “near future”, the government’s communications service said...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
América Móvil turns on 5G engines in Latin America
América Móvil is starting to activate commercial 5G networks in some Latin American markets by using spectrum dedicated for the technology...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Parks Associates reveals the Top 10 OTT subscription services
Based on subscriber estimates through September 2021 from Park’s OTT Video Market Tracker, the research firm reports more than 80% of broadband households have at least one OTT service and that the churn rate for OTT...
 
EKTRA selects CommScope STB for Balticum TV in Lithuania
The VIP7100 is an interactive IP set top powered by the Android TV™ operating system (OS) and allows subscribers to enable both linear TV and various OTT streaming services...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
M7 and Barrandov ink satellite deal
Canal+-owned M7 Group has concluded a long-term agreement with the Czech broadcaster TV Barrandov for the Astra 23.5 satellite distribution of TV Barrandov, Kino Barrandov and Barrandov Krimi...
 
Inmarsat launches world’s most sophisticated commercial comms sat
Inmarsat’s I-6 F1 is the first of seven new Inmarsat satellites to be launched by 2024 in fully-funded technology roadmap...
 
More than 800,000 UK homes switch broadband for first time in 2021
The past 12 months have seen unprecedented deployment of gigabit broadband services across the UK, reaching places never before reached with service speeds never before available, but research from Zen Internet has shown...
 
 
Middle East
 
EdCast & KLD partner for providing premium content
EdCast and KLD have announced their partnership for the Middle East, towards skills development within fast growing corporations as a key step forward for both companies to expand their footprint in the market...
 
Esports Middle East posts record-breaking 300 percent rise in revenue
Esports Middle East LLC (ESME), a leading esports and gaming solutions provider based in the Middle East, has posted a 300% increase in 2021 revenue, driven by more than 16 brand campaigns...
 
Zwipe, INC launches first biometric payment card pilot in Iraq
Zwipe and International Network for Cards and Digital Payment Services (INC) announced that they will pilot Biometric Payment Cards in Iraq...
 
South Asia
 
Ericsson mulls investing in Pakistan
Telecom firm Ericsson has shown interest to enhance investment in Pakistan by deploying advanced networks as well as scaling up its nearshore center to create job opportunities for engineers in the country...
 
Oracle to provide sovereign-hosted cloud services to government
Bangladesh Data Centre Company Limited, the Bangladesh government-owned data storage and disaster recovery services provider, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Dedicated Region Cloud @Customer to provide...
 
North Africa
 
Algeria boosting electronic payments
During the year 2021, more than two million commercial operations via electronic payment terminals were recorded in Algeria, according to local news agency Algérie Presse Service..
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Orange Belgium buys VOO
Orange Belgium has agreed to buy 75% less one share in VOO, a telecom operator that owns the cable network in the Walloon region and part of the Brussels region...
 
Telefonica Germany, Ericsson implement SDN interface for microwave networks
Ericsson and Telefónica Germany / O2 have reached a milestone in the implementation and control of software defined networking (SDN) for microwave networks...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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