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April 5, 2022

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Cisco-Verizon collaboration advances autonomous vehicle tech with streamlined architecture

Cisco and Verizon collaborated on a successful proof of concept demo in Las Vegas, showing that cellular and mobile edge compute (MEC) technology can enable autonomous driving solutions without the use of costly physical Roadside Units to extend radio signals...

CITC announces the end of the transition period for Saudi domain names

The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced the end of the transition period for Saudi domain names...

Member News

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stc develops 16 data centers; Bahrain’s is the largest

This step can encourage local creators to take a step forward towards the use of renewable energy and push for new horizons for digital transformation and also helps leverage and diversify the local economy, which is in line...

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e&’s AGM approves a dividend per share for H2 2021 of AED 0.4, representing a total dividend of AED 0.8 per share for FY2021

e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group) held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) where shareholders approved the recommendation from the Board of Directors to distribute cash dividends to shareholders for the second half of 2021...

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Huawei & Darwin’s Circle launch the Vienna Tech for Green Initiative

At the 2022 edition of the international digital forum Darwin’s Circle, Huawei launched the Vienna Tech for Green Initiative together with Darwin’s Circle, and presented how technology is a key enabler of...

Policy and Regulation

•	Lithuania outlines 3.5GHz spectrum auction plans Lithuania’s regulator has unveiled plans for its 5G spectrum auction in the 3.5GHz band, revealing the starting price for airwaves...

•	CITC announces the end of the transition period for Saudi domain names The Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) announced the end of the transition period for Saudi domain names...

South Asia

•	Dialog demonstrates the fastest 5G speeds in Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata recently demonstrated 2.7Gbps 5G speeds, the highest speed recorded in Sri Lanka, at the official Samsung S22 launch event held at Shangri-La Colombo...

•	Banglalink acquires additional spectrum in 2300MHz band Banglalink has acquired 40MHz of spectrum in the 2300MHz band at an auction held by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC)...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Telekom Slovenije 3G shutdown by end-September Telekom Slovenije has announced that it will phase out its Slovenian 3G mobile services by 30 September this year in order to free up spectrum for its 4G and 5G systems...

•	Telefónica Germany’s 5G network reaches over 10,000 antennas German operator Telefónica Deutschland/O2, controlled by Spanish telco Telefónica, said its 5G network already operates around 10,000 antennas in the country...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	O2 introduces Samsung TV app In the first phase, it will be available for models manufactured in 2019, 2020 and 2021, with older devices following afterwards...

•	Snapchat to roll out 70 Ramadan shows Snap Inc. has announced a new line-up of Ramadan shows, as users in the region continue to increase their usage of Snapchat...

Middle East

•	NGN launches ISACA certification programmes in Bahrain The new programme will also ensure that those programmes keep pace with the latest global developments related to information technology according to the highest international standards...

•	Digital health platform Altibbi to launch new services in Saudi Arabia and Egypt UAE-based digital health platform Altibbi, which raised US$44 million in series B funding last month, plans to expand its offerings with the launch of new diagnostic services in Saudi Arabia and Egypt...

North Africa

•	Thales to open operations center in Morocco French defense and cybersecurity company Thales, plans to open its sixth Cyber Security Operations Center (SOC) in Morocco...

Satellite & Internet

•	Philippines to host SpaceX's first Starlink in Southeast Asia The Philippines announced its plan to host US private space company SpaceX's Starlink project, making it the first Southeast Asian country to avail of the technology for better telecommunications services...

•	300,000 Orange fiber customers via third-party networks The telco has over 60 wholesale agreements with 50 different entities, covering more than two million households which it has not reached with its own fiber network rollouts...

Global Telecom Update

•	Swiss firm debuts 4G drone-tracking device for Remote ID compliance The company says its tracker can operate for more than four hours with a single battery charge, refreshing the information it is broadcasting every second...

•	Singtel and Australian fund to acquire 2,000 towers across Australia AustralianSuper and Singtel-owned Australia Tower Network (ATN) have agreed to acquire Axicom, one of Australia’s leading providers of telecommunications tower infrastructure...

•	Vodafone Portugal taps Mavenir's cloud-native converged packet core Vodafone Portugal and Mavenir announced that Vodafone Portugal will be using the MAVcore solution for its fully containerised Converged Packet Core network after the selection of Mavenir as strategic 5G Converged Core...

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