SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
March 14, 2022 |
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Member News |
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stc Bahrain awards long service employees in celebration of the 12th anniversary
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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... |
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Tech Mahindra partners with Celonis to drive data-led innovation & digital acceleration
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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... |
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Breaking the bias, Huawei celebrates IWD 2022
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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... |
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Recent Developments |
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Huawei, China Mobile, and Industry partners unveil 5G-advanced technology evolution white paper 2.0 |
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stc surprises passengers at Kuwait International Airport’s Terminal 4 |
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stc participates in the World Defense Show 2022 through advanced digital solutions |
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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 |
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Policy and Regulation |
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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...
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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...
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North Africa |
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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...
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV |
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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...
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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...
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3G, 4G and 5G Networks |
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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...
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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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