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February 2, 2022

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AT&T demonstrates 5G capabilities for Department of Defense

AT&T’s 5G network solution demonstrated data throughput speeds greater than 4 gigabits per second with less than 10 milliseconds of latency using AT&T 5G spectrum and a private 5G Core and Radio Access Network (RAN). This performance was demonstrated with commercially available commodity mobile devices at a testbed facility in Richardson, Texas...

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Saudi Arabia unveils more than US$6.4 billion in technology and startup investment at LEAP22

Saudi Arabia announced more than US$6.4 billion in investments in future technologies and entrepreneurship that will further secure the kingdom’s position as the Mena region’s largest digital economy...

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Etihad Atheeb “GO” collaborates with Fortinet to provide SD-WAN solutions to “GO”s customers

This will allow Etihad Atheeb Telecom Company “GO” to better meet the evolving business needs in the Saudi market and enhance the performance of business applications and overall user experience...

Policy and Regulation

•	Saudi Arabia to develop cooperation in digital economy with Bahrain, Finland Saudi Arabia's Minister of Communications and Information Technology Abdullah Al-Swaha on Tuesday held talks with Kamal Ahmed, the Bahraini minister of transport and communications and president of the National Space...

•	NTA to implement Mobile Number Portability soon in Nepal In November 2021, NTA had sought suggestions from telecom operators on its preliminary draft rules for Mobile Number Portability (MNP)...

South Asia

•	SLT-MOBITEL unveils revolutionary Robotic Process Automation solutions in push towards digital transformation Offering real business potential, RPA is a software technology that makes it easy to build, deploy, and manage software robots that emulate humans' actions interacting with digital systems and software...

North Africa

•	Tunisia: TELNET Group improves revenues by 20% The telecoms and network integration component saw a growth of 30.3% while that of PLM services has shown a regression of 1.25%.

•	Egyptian social commerce platform, Brimore, raises US$25 million in Series A round The new capital will fuel Brimore’s growth within the next year, growing its network of sellers and suppliers 4x, doubling the number of its employees and increasing the number of products sold three-fold..

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	T-Mobile begins 900MHz 3G migration in Poland T-Mobile Poland has confirmed that it has begun switching off 3G services in the 900MHz band, with work started at 56 base stations in three provinces...

•	Orange announces the deployment of 5G network on 700 MHz in Spain The company will offer this technology progressively in the course of 2022 in more than 1,100 towns and cities, 820 of them having between 1,000 and 50,000 citizens...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	XL Axiata picks Amdocs’ end-to-end media solution Amdocs has announced the signing of a multi-year contract with Indonesian telco XL Axiata for the supply of its end-to-end media solution enabling the latter to deliver new content and over-the-top (OTT) offerings to its...

Middle East

•	Zain Iraq selects EXFO service Building on its partnership with Zain covering 2G and 3G monitoring technologies for voice and data services, EXFO will deliver a monitoring solution for the 4G-LTE network and the SOC services...

•	Travel platform ExploreTECH debuts across MEA The platform allows professionals to get guidance from subject matter experts on managing problems and developing long-term strategies to improve business procedures and profitability...

•	Silal to deploy IoT sensors in 100 farms to improve productivity of locally grown produce Through this collaboration, Silal will apply IoT sensors to capture key parameters affecting crop growth in greenhouses and net-houses, in order to optimise resource use efficiency and productivity...

Satellite & Internet

•	TPG Telecom to deploy Fortinet SD-WAN to construction industry group Master Builders Victoria TPG Telecom has been tapped by construction industry group Master Builders Victoria (MBV) to deploy SD-WAN technology on its network...

•	Starlink launches 500Mbps premium satellite broadband plan SpaceX’s Starlink ISP, which provides ultrafast low latency broadband across the world and the UK via a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO), has soft launched an expensive new premiun tier...

Global Telecom Update

•	Mozambique's Tmcel begins 2nd phase of network modernisation Mozambique’s state-owned telecommunications company Tmcel has begun the second phase of a project to modernize and expand its mobile network across the country...

•	44 million MTN subscribers submit NINs as telco targets 2000 cities for rural telephony MTN has disclosed that about 44 million of its 68.5 million subscribers in Nigeria have submitted their National Identification Number, which was to be linked with their Subscriber Identity Module cards as of December 31,...

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