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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 6, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
AT&T teams with NVIDIA to give gamers an exclusive 5G offer
 
 
AT&T is joining forces with NVIDIA to bring you one of the world’s best gaming experiences. As the Exclusive 5G Technical Innovation Collaborator for GeForce NOW, AT&T 5G’s fast speeds and response times can give you a smooth gaming experience on-the-go.
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain holds third COVID vaccination campaign for staff
Member Logo Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, held a third COIVD-19 vaccination campaign for its staff at its main headquarters in Shuwaikh in collaboration with the Ministry of Health...
 
•  Tech Mahindra strengthens its leadership in the engineering R&D services space for the 6th consecutive year in Zinnov Zones 2021 rankings
Member Logo Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting and business re-engineering services, announced that it has been named as a leader across 24 verticals and micro verticals in the Zinnov Zones for ER&D...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
China cyberspace regulator says it will build solid national cyber security barrier
China will speed up establishment of a comprehensive internet governance system and build a solid national cyber security barrier, the cyberspace regulator said recently...
 
Telecoms minister asks operators to phase out 3G networks
Indonesia’s Ministry of Communication and Information has reportedly asked the country’s incumbent mobile network operators to phase out 3G mobile technology in favour of bolstering 4G or 5G coverage for mobile...
 
South Asia
 
NTC upgrades international bandwidth capacity to 120 Gbps
The increased import of bandwidth will allow for a lag-free and consistent internet consumption for its customers...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt’s Gahez Market secures US$2 million in pre-seed
The startup started its operation in Aug. 2021, offering many merchants selling different products. That includes garments, leatherware, and accessories...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
HBO Max adds 4.4 million subscribers in Q4 2021 to reach 73.8 globally
With the growth the company says they were ahead of management’s prior guidance that end-of-year subscribers would be at the high end of its 70 million to 73 million subscriber target...
 
Ateliere & Synamedia launch new OTT streaming solutions
Synamedia is to integrate technologies from Ateliere Creative Technologies into its VIVID Workflow-as-a-Service portfolio (WaaS) for enhanced delivery of low latency OTT (over-the-top) solutions...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
4iG closes Hungary and Montenegro buys and eyes ONE in Albania
Hungary’s 4iG group has completed the acquisition of two European operators and announced an agreement to acquire a third...
 
Pod Group launches ENO ONE, a single eSIM for all US networks
Pod Group, a Giesecke+Devrient (G+D) company and the Enterprise Network Operator (ENO) has at CES announced the launch of a new eSIM which has been specifically developed for IoT applications in the US market...
 
Connected cars drive the agenda at CES 2022
Car manufacturers and tech firms rolled out new smart motors and integrated connectivity software at the CES tech show, showing ever more convergence between the two industries...
 
 
Middle East
 
GCC leads smart cities push
Last November Bahrain announced plans to invest more than US$30 billion via 22 signature projects across key sectors – including telecoms, tourism, education, manufacturing and health...
 
Nintex expands cloud options for organisations in UAE
Nintex, the global standard for process intelligence and automation, has announced that Nintex Promapp is available to customers in the UAE through a Microsoft Azure data centre...
 
TCS launches all-women's innovation lab in Saudi Arabia
A new innovation lab has been launched in Saudi Arabia at Tata Consultancy Services’ award-winning all-women’s centre, which aims to promote female career development opportunities...
 
Khazna Data Centers plans two new Dubai facilities
Khazna Data Centers is to deploy two new facilities in Dubai, using its pod-based design techniques so the facilities can easily expand in future...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
4G and 5G are coming to the London Underground on Three
5G will take longer, with around 20% of stations initially getting both 4G and 5G coverage, but the whole network will be 5G-ready, meaning that EE and Three will easily be able to upgrade the remaining sites to 5G over the...
 
Bite Latvia expands 5G network and ICT services
Bite Group, a telecommunications and media group in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, announced that business subscribers for its Bite Latvia ICT services grew by 14% in 2021...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
S. Korean lab, EU develop intercontinental 5G-satellite network system
A South Korean research lab said that it has successfully developed the world's first intercontinental 5G-satellite network system to help communicate in case of a disaster...
 
Lothian Broadband gets boost for FTTP rollout in Scotland
ISP Lothian Broadband, which last year proposed to extend their 1Gbps Fiber-to-the-Premises (FTTP) network to cover 50,000 premises across rural parts of East and Mid Lothian, has secured a major funding boost and their...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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