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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
April 21, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
AT&T reports first-quarter results
 
 
Consolidated revenues for the first quarter totaled US$38.1 billion versus US$43.9 billion in the year-ago quarter, down 13.3% reflecting the impact of divested businesses, mainly U.S. Video in the third quarter of 2021 and Vrio in the fourth quarter of 2021, as well as lower Business Wireline revenues...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Saudi telecom operator Mobily profits up 41% in Q1 on higher revenues
Member Logo Saudi telecom operator Etihad Etisalat Co., known as Mobily, saw its profits soar by 41 percent in the first quarter of 2022...
 
•  Cisco Talos reveals its top tips to stay safe on Web 3.0
Member Logo As businesses, organisations, governments, and consumers begin the transition to Web 3.0 the need to remain protected online is more important than ever. Cisco Talos has done extensive research into the various security...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
CRAN to review frequency band plan
The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has revealed it intends to review its frequency band plan every four years...
 
Minister highlights Morocco's public service digitization strategy in IMF-WB meetings
Minister of Digital Transition and Administrative Reform Ghita Mezzour highlighted Morocco's public service digitization strategy, which focuses on inclusion and trust between citizens and the administration...
 
Middle East
 
Bahrain on track to become ‘smart’ country says report
Bahrain's national strategy is pivoting to become more sustainable and competitive by investing in future-defining oil-proof sectors, as the COVID-19 pandemic underscored the need for economic growth through the...
 
Orange Jordan launches giglancing program
The giglancing program seeks to train 1,000 youth and job seekers across the Kingdom, whether in the tech field or other specialisms, to enroll them in the gig economy by honing their skills to find work opportunities via...
 
Microsoft Azure launches new services in UAE
Microsoft’s customers will be able to have access to almost all of Azure’s tools; Azure Purview, Azure Arc enabled servers, Azure Communication Services, and Azure Machine Learning...
 
South Asia
 
Bhutan confirms import of 10Gbps bandwidth from Bangladesh
Bangladesh would be able to export bandwidth despite increasing demand at home as Bangladesh is going to launch a third submarine cable with more than 13,000 Gbps capacity...
 
Mobile phone import up by 3.93 percent in Pakistan
The import of mobile phones has witnessed an increase of 3.93 percent during the nine months of the fiscal year (2021-22) as compared to the corresponding period of last year...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
NuRAN signs ten-year US$60 million 4G contract with MTN Namibia
Canadian telecom infrastructure provider NuRAN Wireless has finalised an agreement signed with MTN Namibia in February for the deployment of a minimum of 150 sites (2G, 4G and 2G/4G combined) in the country within the next...
 
T-Mobile expands 5G home internet availability by 10 million households
T-Mobile ended 2021 with 646,000 home internet subscribers and revealed during its most recent earnings that it had added 224,000 home internet users during the fourth quarter of the year...
 
 
North Africa
 
Djezzy promotes revamped mobile app with data giveaway
Algerian operator Djezzy is encouraging customers to use its revamped mobile app with the promise of free data...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
BritBox launches in Nordics this month
The BBC-ITV joint venture will launch on April 28th in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland with thousands of hours of premium British content, including its own original programming...
 
Vizio adds 5,000 VOD titles to WatchFree+
Vizio has announced the addition of premium on-demand titles to its WatchFree+ AVOD platform from more than 17 studios...
 
Infinix and PalmPay target African market with digital wallet app
The aim of the app is to provide a seamless digital financial experience to users across emerging market economies, starting with a number of African markets...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
OneWeb inks deal to launch its LEO satellites from India
OneWeb has agreed with the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organization, New Space India Limited, to deploy its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites from the country's launch pad outside Chennai...
 
PPTEL and Juniper partner for core network building in Malaysia
The company relies on submarine cables from strategic locations in the region to drive latency down while keeping services efficient and cost-effective. PPTEL is also building the first Tier IV data centre in East Malaysia...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
3.5 million Ghanaians to be connected to internet by end of 2023
The about 3.5 million Ghanaians who are yet to be connected to data and voice network will heave a sigh of relieve by the end of next year...
 
SK Telecom’s digital remastering technology Supernova going global
Under the partnership, SK Telecom will recreate classic content owned by broadcasting stations or content producers, while Verimatrix will enhance the security of the remastered content...
 
Teltronic brings TETRA radio to six airports in the Philippines
The solution also includes world-class terminals and a Teltronic CeCoCo control centre that allows advanced dispatching as well as real-time GPS positioning of all subscribers at the six airports...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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