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June 28, 2022

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130 International teams win at the Huawei ICT Competition 2021-2022 Global Final

This year marks the sixth Huawei ICT Competition, which included three competitions – Practice, Innovation and Industry – attracted 150,000 students from more than 2000 universities in 85 countries and regions around the world...

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AT&T plans for fiber-powered internet access in Amarillo, Texas

The city of Amarillo announced a US$24M project with AT&T to build its state-of-the-art fiber network to more than 22,000 customer locations throughout the city...

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Nokia and Proximus deliver 5G network slicing innovation to support demanding network conditions

New advanced RAN slicing functionalities in Nokia’s Airscale base station were tested for the first time on an end-to-end network on the Proximus 5G innovation platform...

Policy and Regulation

•	Liberty Latin America gains regulatory approval for Claro Liberty Latin America (LLA) has received regulatory approval to proceed with its US$200 million acquisition of America Movil unit Claro Panama, a move that forms an entity with over half of the market share in the country...

•	Second 5G bandwidth auction passes US$4.7 million mark Bids for the second 5G broadband cellular network license on offer in Estonia have passed the US$4.7 million mark...

Middle East

•	Saudi Arabia forges ahead with health service digital transformation on back of COVID-19 pandemic The coronavirus pandemic has inadvertently provided the springboard to spur on the digital transformation of Saudi Arabia’s public healthcare sector...

•	Hewlet Packard business transformation session in Bahrain Hewlet Packard Enterprise (HPE), in partnership with Bahrain-based Northstar Technology and in association with Ingram Micro, will conduct an in-person awareness event on the latest HPE products and solutions...

•	Injazat expands collaboration with Dell Technologies and VMware to enhance cloud offerings Injazat has announced that it has extended its individual collaborations with both Dell Technologies and VMware to meet the growing demand for robust and flexible consumption of as-a-service hybrid digital infrastructure...

South Asia

•	Bykea secures new funding with US$10 million additional investment from existing investors Bykea, Pakistan based bike-ride sharing, and on-demand delivery platform announced that it has secured a fresh $10M investment from its existing backers...

•	Padma Bridge to ensure faster internet Internet users in Dhaka are set to get faster bandwidth thanks to Padma Bridge as the Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited has laid fiber-optic cables on its lower deck to reduce the time taken for data to travel...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Twitch streaming record broken during boxing event The Amazon-owned streaming platform announced on Twitter that Ibai reached a peak of over 3.3 million concurrent viewers on June 26 during the La Velada del Año II boxing event...

•	Tivùsat adds 13 Mediaset channels It brings the number of high definition and ultra high definition channels on the free-to-air satellite platform to 77...

North Africa

•	Egypt launches digital platform for petroleum products Egypt has launched a digital platform for petroleum products and natural gas, as the country moves ahead on the path toward digital transformation...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Vodafone installs 5G private network at Skoda Auto manufacturing plant Czech car manufacturer Škoda Auto has launched a mobile private 5G network in cooperation with mobile operator Vodafone at its Mladá Boleslav site...

•	Kyivstar connects 3.5 thousand settlements in Ukraine to 4G The Kyivstar mobile operator since February 2022 has upgraded 3,000 base stations in small towns and villages with a population of up to 2,000 people by connecting LTE-900 technology to them...

Satellite & Internet

•	China successfully launches Gaofen 12-03 satellite China has successfully launched the Gaofen 12-03 satellite, aboard a Long March-4C carrier rocket, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China...

•	Proximus FTTP network passes 1 million homes and businesses Proximus has announced it has reached the milestone of one million homes and businesses passed by its open access fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network...

Global Telecom Update

•	Telia powers up with green energy deals Telia Company signed long-term arrangements for renewable energy supplies that are designed to power its networks and operations in Denmark and Estonia over the coming years...

•	Tele2 joins AWS Partner Network Tele2 group has announced a collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance the portfolio of Cloud services that Tele2 offers its business customers in Scandinavia and the Baltic region...

•	ST Engineering iDirect streamlines site installation process for Intelsat flexEnterprise customers The Satmotion solution is now integrated into iDirect’s Velocity platform which underpins the global FlexEnterprise service fabric to enable even faster deployment of connectivity services for enterprise locations...

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