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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
March 14, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Zain collaborates with Cisco to accelerate 5G monetization to further the 5G ecosystem in the Kuwait market
 
 
Zain Kuwait's 5G traffic currently accounts for more than 40% of its total wireless traffic, ranking the operator as number one in GCC countries in terms of 5G offload ratio. Zain Kuwait is one of the leading telecom operators in MENA and has been at the forefront of innovation for years as the first operator to launch commercial 5G services in the Middle East...
 
Omantel Webinar: Three speakers share their views on how 5G technology is unlocking business potentials during Omantel second 5G webinar
 
 
Omantel, the leading telecom operator in the Sultanate of Oman, hosted its second webinar to discuss 5G technology, its potential, and its impacts on Oman's information and telecommunication sector and consumers...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  stc Bahrain awards long service employees in celebration of the 12th anniversary
Member Logo stc Bahrain, a world-class digital enabler, held an awards ceremony on the 7th of March to celebrate and reward 81 employees who have been part of the stc family for more than 10 years. As tokens of appreciation, employees...
 
•  Tech Mahindra partners with Celonis to drive data-led innovation & digital acceleration
Member Logo Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions, and Celonis, the global leader in execution management, introduced new solutions to further...
 
•  Breaking the bias, Huawei celebrates IWD 2022
Member Logo On the International Women's Day (IWD) 2022, Huawei and its employees are actively increasing women’s visibility via a video showing versatile female employees and speaking up for women in a Women in Tech webinar...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Huawei, China Mobile, and Industry partners unveil 5G-advanced technology evolution white paper 2.0
 
•  stc surprises passengers at Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 4
 
•  stc participates in the World Defense Show 2022 through advanced digital solutions
 
•  SAMENA Telecommunications Council at MWC22 highlights importance of key recommendations and outcomes of the UN Broadband Commission’s WG on 21st Century Financing Models to close the connectivity gap
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
ICASA multiband auction surpasses US$531 million
The main stage of South Africa’s auction of mobile broadband spectrum, which started on 10 March 2022 has so far raised more than the ZAR8 billion (US$531 million) originally projected, ICASA said...
 
European Commission clears Iliad acquisition of UPC Poland
The European Commission (EC) has cleared the acquisition of UPC Poland by French telecoms group Iliad from Liberty Global, as the company aims to bolster its position in the eastern European country...
 
South Asia
 
New multi-service messaging, payment app to be rolled out in Pakistan
NayaPay will provide universal payments acceptance and a range of business financial management tools to empower entrepreneurs and small business owners...
 
Dotlines Bangladesh starts online platform ‘Lattu’
The new venture of Dotlines Bangladesh has brought about a unique online platform where anyone can start an online store of their own choice and merchandise goods through it very easily, said a press release...
 
Ncell launches All Nepal Voice Packs for prepay users
Nepalese operator has introduced All Nepal Voice Packs for prepay customers. Ncell customers can now make calls on any network in Nepal for 51 paisa per minute...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Intelsat to support Safaricom LTE expansion
Kenyan mobile provider Safaricom has signed a multi-year contract with satellite provider Intelsat to modernise its network and expand LTE coverage...
 
EllaLink, DE-CIX and IP Telecom hope to generate more demand between Brazil and Europe
Through this partnership, DE-CIX says, it will provide access to the largest carrier-and-data-centre-neutral interconnection ecosystem in Southern Europe, through its IXs in Lisbon, Madrid, and Marseille...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Macquarie Telecom signs deal with Kelsian Group Limited
The new agreement provides additional cloud services, including engaging Macquarie’s Azure expertise to help manage Australian workloads...
 
Kyivstar, Vodafone and Lifecell band together with national roaming
Competing mobile operators Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine and Lifecell are working together to support each other’s customers through a national roaming system that links them with the strongest signal...
 
 
Middle East
 
Huawei partners with Manga Productions
The partnership allows users to discover Manga Productions’ video content like Futures’ Folktales using HUAWEI Video, with more exciting integrated customer experiences to follow soon...
 
Ooredoo Group celebrates successful return to Mobile World Congress
MWC attendees learned about Ooredoo’s collaboration with Ericsson and Nokia through which the telco will provide a dedicated LTE network that would provide high-availability voice and data services to support oil and...
 
Zenatix launches in UAE to offer IoT powered energy savings
This would require adoption of sustainable measures by diverse stakeholders to enable a future that is conducive to the environment which is well supported by the Dubai government...
 
North Africa
 
talabat inaugurates new Cairo headquarters
talabat opened a new 10,000sqm headquarters in Cairo, signifying the strategic importance of the Egyptian market to the organization and it also hosted a panel discussion on global best practices in regulating the e-commerce...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Canal+ launches streaming service and linear channel in Austria
The streaming service will provide three simultaneous streams on up to five devices for €8.99 a month. It will include exclusive original content from Studiocanal, films from Kinowelt TV, Filmtastic and and series from...
 
CNN+ launch date confirmed
CNN+ was first announced in July 2021, with its debut being set for Q1 2022 and will offer subscribers three types of content, namely live, on-demand and interactive programming...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
BT pushes 4G ESN progress
BT UK talked-up progress made towards the delayed rollout of a 4G emergency services network (ESN), highlighting all of its EE masts were now able to support it with coverage available across 540,000km of roads...
 
DOCOMO accelerates 5G rollout to keep pace with rivals
NTT DOCOMO, is looking to ramp up the pace of its 5G network rollout to keep pace with its main rivals KDDI (au) and SoftBank Corp which recently revealed faster deployments of their own fifth-generation systems...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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