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May 4, 2022

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Comcast Business expands managed solutions portfolio with Cisco SD-WAN

The collaboration expands Comcast Business’s ability to provide enterprise customers with comprehensive, global secure networking solutions with Ethernet, SD-WAN and security solutions – regardless of their existing infrastructure or vendor relationships...

Member News

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AT&T celebrates National Small Business Week

AT&T is equipping small businesses with special offers and helpful tools to support their success as they celebrate National Small Business Week, May 1-7, 2022...

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Nokia deploys data center edge routers to support team.blue Denmark’s rapid hosting and cloud services growth

Nokia announced that its 7750 Service Routers (SR) have now been deployed for team.blue Denmark, part of team.blue Group, the leading provider of hosting and cloud services to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) across...

Policy and Regulation

•	Prepare to celebrate World Telecommunication and Information Society Day The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) invites its members to participate in World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) 2022 celebrations building up...

•	Nigerian regulator plans sharing study The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country’s regulator, has announced plans for a study to assess the current level of competition in the colocation and infrastructure sharing (CIS) segment of the...

North Africa

•	Implementation of national health insurance to continue in spite of global economic challenges The project will be supported by state-of-the-art automation technologies as part of the Digital Egypt strategy, a broader national plan targeting the digitisation of all government services countrywide...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Paramount+ names UK launch date Paramount+ will be available free of charge to subscribers to Sky Cinema when the streaming service goes live next month...

•	Mediaset España picks Unified Streaming for CDN tech Mediaset España has agreed a tech partnership with Unified Streaming to optimise its live streaming and linear programming...

Global Telecom Update

•	Equinix boosts data centre presence in Latin America with Chile acquisition Digital infrastructure company Equinix has completed the acquisition of four data centres in Chile from Empresa Nacional De Telecomunicaciones (Entel), a leading Chilean telecommunications provider...

•	BT teams up with AWS to accelerate its digital transformation The agreement with AWS will be part of BT’s drive to “transform legacy infrastructure and internal applications” so that they become cloud-first, modular and reusable across its business...

Middle East

•	Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority enters Metaverse Vara has announced its entry into the Metaverse with the establishment of its Metaverse HQ in the dynamic virtual world of ‘The Sandbox’...

•	KFUPM-EI supports Saudi tech start-ups with new acceleration program King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Entrepreneurship Institute (KFUPM-EI) has just announced a new program aimed at encouraging Saudi Arabian youths and start-ups to embrace technology...

South Asia

•	Grameenphone reports first quarter results The first three months of 2022 saw an improving topline growth coupled with continued growth in EBITDA with the total revenues growing by 4.4% YoY...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	4ka covers 139 cities with its own networks Slovakian operator SWAN, which trades under the 4ka brand, says it now has its own 2G and 4G mobile infrastructure in 139 of the country’s 141 cities...

•	5G services will be available by Q4 in Nigeria With the successful auction of the 5G spectrum last year, Nigeria became the first country in Africa to successfully conduct a full 5G spectrum auction without the services of a consultant and first software auction to be...

Satellite & Internet

•	SES and COMNET to deliver satellite broadband across Central America Satellite operator SES and Central American telecommunications company COMNET have extended their long-term partnership, with the aim of jointly delivering high-performance, next-generation broadband services across Central...

•	CityFibre and Giganet ink ‘major’ partnership expansion British pure fiber provider CityFibre has announced that it has signed a ‘major expansion’ to its strategic partnership with the ISP Giganet...

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