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April 26, 2022

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e& reports consolidated net profit of AED 2.4 billion in Q1 2022, up 3.6 percent

e&'s first quarter consolidated revenues increased by 0.8 percent to AED 13.3 billion, while consolidated net profit increased to AED 2.4 billion, a year-over-year increase of 3.6 percent...

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Excitement at peak as Omantel Champions V3 Tournament reaches final stages

The growing excitement around the Sultanate’s most anticipated e-tournament is evident from the increased participation compared to 2021, 2470 players registered for the e-sporting event this year for a host of games...

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Nokia next-gen PON solution powers fiber optic network in Lucerne

Nokia announced that the Swiss energy services company, Energie Wasser Luzern (ewl), has deployed its next-generation PON fiber solution...

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China Mobile Sichuan and Huawei jointly carry out 5G 3CC CA verifications

China Mobile Sichuan and Huawei verified the TDD+FDD and TDD+TDD 5G SA 3CC CA solution on live networks in Chengdu...

Policy and Regulation

•	Girls in ICT Day puts priority on access and safety This Thursday, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) will celebrate International Girls in ICT Day, observed annually during the last week of April, with a focus on 'Access and Safety' as key...

•	NTA specifies minimum signal level for mobile coverage The Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA) has introduced minimum signal level standards for mobile coverage in a bid to improve services across the country...

Middle East

•	Integrated Telecom plans to sell fiber optic assets to Technical Links Services Integrated Telecom Company (Salam) has announced its intention to sell all its fiber optic network assets and all its components to Technical Links Services (TLS)...

•	eKey service registers 190,000 new users in Bahrain The government’s eKey service has witnessed a surge in demand during the pandemic, with more than 190,000 new users registering since the beginning of March 2020...

•	Leading AI group Pixis announces foray into Mideast, Asia markets Their mission is to enable every marketer to access and operate AI for demand generation without requiring dependency on code or data science teams...

South Asia

•	German Ed Tech company Mersys enters Pakistani market by partnering with Excellence Delivered With this partnership, ExD will provide Mersys’ state of the art education management platform, Campus, to schools, colleges and universities and vocational training institutes across the country...

•	Robi registers decent profit powered by 4G data leadership in Q1’22 Robi’s 4G leadership position further consolidated in Q1’22 with 45.9% of its total subscribers being 4G users with around 73.4% of Robi’s subscriber base being data subscribers...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	TiVo and TELEV8 to ‘transform’ video delivery for hospitality venues TiVo has announced a partnership with TELEV8 that will see the hotel TV business leverage its IPTV service for hospitality and visitor-based venues...

•	Disney, Lumen spearhead SVA streaming quality project Aiming to improve the quality and reliability of streaming video, Disney Streaming and Lumen Technologies have entered into a collaboration to produce standardised CDN configuration metadata and application programming...

North Africa

•	Egyptian MaaS startup Swvl enters Turkish markets with latest acquisition Swvl, an Egyptian startup that provides shared transportation services for intercity and intracity trips, has expanded into Turkey with its recent acquisition of Volt Lines, a B2B transportation-as-a-service operator...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	DB and Vodafone to remove mobile blackspots across rail network GERMAN Rail (DB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Vodafone to remove black spots from Vodafone’s 4G network across the German rail network, providing seamless, low-latency mobile coverage for...

•	Soc Trang province launches 5G network, intelligent operations centre Viettel completed the building of the 5G network in two months, making Soc Trang the 17th province in Vietnam and one of the first localities in the southern region to access 5G services...

Satellite & Internet

•	NTT and SKY Perfect JSAT establish Space Compass for GEO satellite broadband NTT Corp and SKY Perfect JSAT Corp have agreed to set up a new joint venture company to launch a novel integrated space computing network’ starting with ‘optical and wireless communication network[s] to be built...

•	High speed communications for Brazil – delivered by river A ‘green’ high-speed underwater backbone communication network is coming to Brazil’s Amazon River thanks to a partnership between Seja Digital, a non-governmental, non-profit institution created by...

Global Telecom Update

•	Equatorial Guinean cellcos halving rates on 1 May Equatorial Guinea’s mobile network operators (MNOs) have agreed to reduce their rates by 50% from 1 May for the benefit of consumers, following weeks of negotiations with the government...

•	Glo pens roaming agreement with rival AirtelTigo to boost service Ghana-based operator Glo has entered into a nationwide roaming agreement with state-owned AirtelTigo covering voice, data and SMS, a move to enhance coverage and service. performance...

•	Orange's quarterly sales boosted by Africa and Middle East Orange, France's biggest telecoms operator, said high growth from its Africa and Middle East operations offset declines in revenue in its home market and Spain in the first quarter...

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