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May 31, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Mobily and Telecom Egypt sign an MoU to build a submarine cable connecting the KSA to Egypt
 
 
Etihad Etisalat Company (Mobily) signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Telecom Egypt to build theAnchor first submarine cable system to directly connect the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Egypt. The MoU was signed in Riyadh by Eng. Salman Al-Badran, CEO of Mobily, and Adel Hamed, Managing Director and CEO of Telecom Egypt...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Omantel hosted the 3rd webinar on the role of 5G technology
Member Logo The 3rd webinar received unprecedented response, with the participation of heads of ICT/ IT departments of Omantel’s government and private sector enterprise customers, stakeholders from the public and private sector...
 
•  Cisco study explores connection between hybrid work and wellbeing among UAE employees
Member Logo UAE employees who practice hybrid working models as part of their digitizing workplaces, have experienced better overall wellness in areas such as mental, physical and financial wellbeing, according to the new Cisco Global...
 
•  Nokia strengthens partnership with Microsoft to enhance performance at the mission critical industrial edge
Member Logo Nokia MX Industrial Edge (MXIE) with Microsoft Azure Arc provide a powerful solution to enhance the performance of critical Industry 4.0 use cases...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Telcor to use 900MHz FM radio airwaves for mobile broadband
The Nicaraguan Institute for Telecommunications and Posts has revealed plans to free up spectrum in the 894MHz-960MHz band for mobile broadband use...
 
Colombia relaxes regulations around rural rollouts
The Communications Regulatory Commission (CRC) of Colombia is easing regulation around rural network deployments to incentivise regional ISPs to expand into previously unconnected areas...
 
South Asia
 
Pakistan’s IT exports to surpass US$3 billion this year:
The investments of Pakistani start-ups grew by almost five times as compare to 2020 and MOITT through Ignite have been providing both local and international networking platforms to start-ups to pitch their business ideas...
 
Dialog hosts Google I/O extended in the Metaverse for the 1st time in South Asia
The Metaverse event, a first of its kind in the South Asian region featured Google’s latest innovations and developer products while also bringing together developers from around the world for insightful tech talks and...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Taiwan Mobile awards 5G coverage expansion deal to Nokia
The deal also covers the introduction of 4G/5G dynamic spectrum sharing to maximize the advantages of TWM’s spectrum assets, which include 700MHz and 2100MHz bands...
 
Vodafone 5G network reaches 50 million Germans
Vodafone Germany has announced that coverage of its 5G network now reaches more than 50 million people, while its so-called ‘5G+’ service is available to over ten million Germans...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
GroupM brings Finecast to Spain
Finecast is an addressable TV company which enables advertisers to personalise ads across on-demand, linear and live streaming TV environments...
 
ITV and Twitter in new content partnership
ITV and Twitter have announced a new multichannel partnership that will bring real time highlights directly to the social media platform...
 
 
Middle East
 
Emirates Post unveils latest customer, tech-driven portfolio
Emirates Post, the official postal operator and leading express provider in the UAE, has launched its latest range of advanced services as part of its broader customer-digital and sustainability-focused strategies...
 
Cyber attacks on small businesses jump 348% in Bahrain
Small businesses in Bahrain faced a 348 per cent rise in Internet attacks between January and April 2022 from the same period last year, shows new research from Kaspersky...
 
North Africa
 
Trend Micro blocked and detected over 58 million threats in Egypt
n Egypt, Trend Micro solutions detected and blocked over 29 million (29,148,814) email threats, more than 1.4 million (1,457,202) malware attacks, and over 3.6 million (3,622,037) URL victims’ attacks...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Thaicom and NDL partner to boost satellite broadband in India
Satellite broadband and related services in India are being promised a boost after a new deal involving Indian media and communications company NXT Digital (NDL) and Thailand’s Thaicom...
 
BT boosts ADSL speed with 4G aggregation
Hybrid Speed Boost combines the copper infrastructure with EE’s 4G network to provide an automatic uplift in speeds to 20 Mbps downlink and 10 Mbps uplinlk on average...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Orange Poland to support MVNOs
Orange Poland has opened its network to MVNOs, with a new offer aimed at small and medium-sized ISPs who are looking to add mobile services to their fixed line offerings...
 
Invosys to offer Avaya cloud solutions
As a technology service provider, Invosys will offer value added services including project managers, sales support, installation, and a 24/7 service desk manned in the UK...
 
Telecom sector posts steady growth in Jan-April
China's telecommunications sector posted steady expansion in the first four months of the year, with emerging businesses such as cloud computing growing rapidly...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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