SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
April 17, 2022 |
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Policy and Regulation |
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Network sharing negotiations end in Ethiopia
The Ethiopian Communications Authority has announced infrastructure sharing discussions between Safaricom and state-owned Ethio Telecom have ended, with a launch impending...
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Potraz to balance tariff hikes, affordability
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe will allow telecommunication network operators to adjust tariffs in tandem with rising costs to ensure sustainability of operations in the sector...
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV |
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Salto teams up with Amazon Prime
Salto notes that a first agreement had already been concluded between the two companies, allowing access to Salto on Amazon Fire TV Cube or Fire TV Stick/Lite/4K streaming media players, as well as voice control associated...
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SK Telecom to add game features to its ifland platform
SK Telecom will add new features in its metaverse platform ifland that will let users play games and create and sell in-game items within this year...
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North Africa |
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OPay plans to issue prepaid cards
OPay Egypt, a fintech and electronic payments company, has announced that the Central Bank of Egypt has granted it the initial approval to issue prepaid cards through its OPay app...
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3G, 4G and 5G Networks |
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JENDELA to improve 4G efficiency in Malaysia
The collaboration would be able to expand internet coverage and upgrade the 4G network in all areas including urban, suburban, rural and remote areas in the country...
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Samsung, VMO2 roll out 4G, 5G sites
The test demonstrates interoperability between VMO2’s 2G, 3G, and 4G networks and Samsung’s latest 4G and 5G solutions and Dynamic Spectrum Sharing kit...
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Global Telecom Update |
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team.blue Denmark deploys Ciena's Waveserver Ai
team.blue Denmark has selected Ciena’s Waveserver Ai platform to serve as the foundation for its WAN-ring, providing point-to-point metro data center interconnect (DCI) network service between sites...
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MTN Cameroon, Camtel strike roaming agreement
MTN Cameroon and state-owned Cameroon Telecommunications (Camtel) have penned a national roaming agreement which will see the latter expand its coverage significantly...
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Intel acquires private 5G network provider Ananki
Intel has acquired private 5G network provider Ananki, several months after the startup spun out of the non-profit Open Networking Foundation to commercialize open-source network technologies...
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