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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
February 8, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
stc participates in the LEAP conference in Riyadh
 
 
Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced its participation in the ‘LEAP’ conference hosted in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from the 1st to the 3rd of February 2022 in Riyadh...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  AT&T opens a new connected learning center in Detroit
Member Logo The center will provide high-speed AT&T Fiber internet, Wi-Fi, Dell Technologies computers as well as education, tutoring and mentoring resources for local students and community members...
 
•  Cisco reveals new innovations to help businesses make hybrid work, work
Member Logo Cisco announced new innovations designed to power hybrid work with people working from home, in the office, or anywhere...
 
•  Nokia commits US$400 milllion to NGP Capital for investments in game-changing growth companies
Member Logo The fund’s emphasis on companies developing emerging 5G use cases for industrial and business transformation aligns closely with Nokia’s technology leadership vision and its efforts to maximize the value shift...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Egypt's NTRA allocates new frequencies to Orange with TDD system, for $440mln
The NTRA and Orange Egypt signed an appendix agreement to license the mobile services issued to the company to allow it to use the new frequencies...
 
Jordan to launch 5G mobile infrastructure services
The Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (TRC) is about to launch 5G technologies and is currently negotiating companies to produce a relevant plan and strategy...
 
North Africa
 
Honeywell, Etisalat team up to develop smart buildings in Egypt
The MoU between Honeywell and Etisalat Misr outlines the intent to co-develop IoT-based offerings that leverage artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), connecting and hosting technologies that can be applied to...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Rakuten Mobile's 4G population coverage ratio reaches 96%
The efficiency of the base station rollout has been dramatically enhanced by the network architecture of Rakuten Mobile’s world-first fully virtualized, cloud-native mobile network...
 
Optus and Ericsson deploy triple-band 4G/5G radio unit
Australia’s Optus has reportedly deployed what it claimed to be the first triple-band 4G/5G radio unit in Asia, doing so in collaboration with Ericsson...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Viaplay reaches 4 million subscribers
NENT’s streaming service Viaplay has grown its subscriber count by 33% year on year to reach 4,005,000 subscribers...
 
Streaming spikes for Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
According to research from Conviva, the 2022 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony recorded a 349% increase in viewing time as compared with the same event in 2018...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
MainOne expands Global Cloud Connect services to drive Business Digital Transition in West Africa
The MainOne Cloud Connect service ensures direct, secure, and reliable network connectivity between enterprise data centers or office locations and public cloud providers such as Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services...
 
Avelacom installs new PoP at Bursa Malaysia
Avelacom announced the deployment of its point-of-presence (PoP) at Bursa Malaysia, the stock exchange of Malaysia, to extend its network footprint into Malaysia capital markets...
 
Telstra and Intellihub seal smart meter deal
Telstra and Intellihub have signed a 10-year agreement that will see the latter have its smart meters on the former's mobile network....
 
 
Middle East
 
Saudi digital transformation spending hits US$3.19 billionx annually
The money is being invested in cloud computing, new emerging technologies, and open source government software...
 
G42 Cloud, Kyndryl to accelerate cloud adoption and business transformation
Through this collaboration, G42 Cloud and Kyndryl aim to accelerate cloud adoption in the UAE and the Middle East...
 
Kuwait taps Avaya to transform government-to-citizen experiences
Through Sahel, citizens and residents can access government services and complete transactions easily, quickly, and securely...
 
Batelco to launch Manama-IX Reseller Service
MANAMA-IX enables direct network interconnections bringing all networks closer, and localizing the traffic...
 
South Asia
 
Ufone 4G offers an industry first unlimited free internet
Ufone 4G acquired 4G spectrum recently to fulfill its long-time commitment of delivering top quality data services to its customers...
 
REVE Chat providing chatbot services to the Mexican Govt
REVE Chat, a Bangladeshi SaaS-based chatbot company, is providing technical support to the Mexican Government for facilitating access to information and protection of personal data for its citizens...
 
E-commerce platform trialled to help Nepalese farm co-ops with market access
UNDP Accelerator Lab in Nepal has partnered with software developer Bidhee Private Limited to test an e-commerce platform for farmers’ co-ops across the country...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Thales Alenia Space to develop future satellite navigation systems
Thales Alenia Space announced that it has been awarded a contract by the French Space Agency CNES to develop a Dual Frequency Multi Constellations (DFMC) SBAS prototype...
 
Telekom to connect 7,000 companies to fiber network
Under this phase of expansion, which will begin this year, businesses located in 87 industrial parks will be able to access maximum download speeds of 1Gbps...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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