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June 8, 2022

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stc launches its talent academy ‘IBDAA Academy’ in collaboration with McKinsey & Company

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced the launch of its talent academy called ‘IBDAA Academy’, in collaboration with the global management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company...

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AT&T participates in Department of Defense Demonstration of 5G-enabled smart warehouse solutions at Naval Base Coronado

The demonstrations occurred at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego where the smart warehouse concept is being explored by DoD. AT&T’s private 5G network at the base delivered data throughput speeds of 3.9 gigabits per...

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IUCN and Huawei call for greater technology adoption to protect nature

Echoing the “Only One Earth” theme of World Environment Day on June 5, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Huawei, and global partners came together at the Tech for a Better Planet summit...

Policy and Regulation

•	CRAN launches SIM card registration awareness campaign The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia (CRAN) has launched a national campaign to raise awareness of the introduction of mandatory SIM card registration, which will come into effect on 1 January 2023...

•	Zimbabwe regulator announces new revenue assurance measures POTRAZ has announced plans to monitor telecommunications traffic for revenue assurance purposes, suggesting that the existing system, whereby operators declare their revenues, may no longer be adequate...

South Asia

•	SLT-MOBITEL elevates Liberty Plaza tenants’ experience with cutting-edge connectivity and advanced ICT solutions. SLT-MOBITEL, the National ICT Solutions Provider, has partnered Colombo Land and Development Company PLC, owners of the Liberty Plaza complex, to elevate occupant experiences with ultra-fast fiber connectivity and...

•	Huawei partners with golden harvest to build a smart Bangladesh Huawei Technologies (Bangladesh) Limited and Golden Harvest will work together in Bangladesh to help every industry in achieving higher business growth and significantly reducing operation costs...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Disney Plus is now available in the MENA region The Walt Disney Company continues the global expansion of its streaming service, Disney+, by launching in 42 countries and 11 territories across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East...

•	LiveU acquires channel partner Pacific Live Media In the latest of a string of mergers and acquisitions, live video streaming and remote production solutions provider LiveU has bought its longstanding channel partner in the Oceania region, Pacific Live Media (PLM)...

Global Telecom Update

•	Ooredoo Maldives begins International Money Transfer trial Since the issuance of the licence, Ooredoo Maldives has been working on integrating its systems with its international partners and conducted various tests of the system...

•	Globe Telecom selects Netcracker managed services Netcracker will deploy its operations automation framework and provide a variety of managed services covering mission-critical processes such as order fulfillment, proactive monitoring and performance management to meet...

•	Orange opens two new data centers in France The company this month announced the commissioning of two new data centers, in Amilly in the Centre-Val de Loire region and in Val-de-Reuil in Normandy in France...

Middle East

•	Red Hat roundtable spotlights Qatar’s digital transformation Qatar has accelerated its digital transformation journey through continued investment in the latest technology, it was highlighted at a media roundtable hosted by Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source...

•	Telephony Communications Technologies launches TCTx TCTx is the Metaverse arm of Telephony Communication Technologies, one of the early adopters of Web 3.0 technologies in MENA where customers will be able to access a wide range of solutions...

•	Robo-advisers are increasingly managing wealth in the MENA One in three (34 percent) expect the number of digital only solutions to increase dramatically by 2025, according to new research from Oxford Risk...

•	Zoho launches Arabic e-commerce store builder, integration with Tap Payments Making two announcements, Zoho Corporation said it has launched a right-to-left (RTL) Arabic website builder for its Zoho Commerce platform; and has integrated its apps with Tap Payments, a leading payment solutions provider...

North Africa

•	Metro Green Line 3 runs a Wi-Fi test in Abassia Station in cooperation with Orange Egypt This step comes as an endeavor to provide passengers with distinguished technological services and to enhance the overall passenger’s experience in Green Line 3 by implementing new technologies in the stations...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Airtel Africa spends US$42 million to boost 4G in DRC Airtel Africa acquired spectrum to expand its 4G network in the Democratic Republic of Congo to support growing data demand in the country...

•	Telekom rolls out 5G in 700MHz band Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed and mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), has announced that it has started using the 700MHz frequency band for its 5G network...

Satellite & Internet

•	Chinese carmaker Geely joins SpaceX in low-Earth orbit satellite race Geespace has more modest ambitions, with plans to deploy a much smaller network to help Geely and other companies access and transmit data for autonomous driving...

•	XL Axiata FTTH network reaches 700k homes passed Fixed and mobile operator XL Axiata has revealed that, working in partnership with Huawei, it continues to expand the reach of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in Indonesia and now has coverage of more than 700,000...

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