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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 30, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
IWK Health, Cisco Canada and OnX Canada power critical connections between babies and families in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
 
 
WK Health announced the success of its web-delivered application – Chez NICU Home – and securely powered Cisco Webex technologies to connect NICU families to education, supports, and resources they need to become more active participants in the care of their babies, driving healthier outcomes for families...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain continues strategic partnership with MOI to raise drug abuse awareness
Member Logo Zain’s role in this initiative does not stop at this exhibition, as the company also launched a comprehensive social media campaign on its official channels, titled #CloserThanYouThink, to share the latest official...
 
•  AT&T expanding fiber internet service to Arizona
Member Logo AT&T plans to expand its award-winning fiber internet service to bring reliable, high-speed broadband to the Mesa, Ariz., area. Service is expected to be available to local residents in 2023...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  stc participates in Center 21’s closing ceremony
 
•  Thai PM gives Huawei Thailand Cybersecurity Excellence Award
 
•  stc launches "Saudi Vision Cable", the first high-capacity submarine cable in the Red Sea
 
•  etisalat by e& enables UAE PASS login on app and portal
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Lithuania concludes 700MHz 5G auction
Lithuanian telecoms watchdog the Communications Regulatory Authority has announced the completion of its auction of 5G mobile spectrum in the 700MHz band that started in May...
 
Middle East
 
OpenSignal report: Saudi Arabia made great strides in 5G availability, performance
A recent report on the experience of 5G technology in six GCC countries, revealed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has achieved strong growth in both speed, video experience, and the availability of the 5G network, despite...
 
Amazon Web Services launches new region in UAE
Developers, startups, entrepreneurs, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and nonprofit organizations will have even greater choice for running their applications and serving end users from data centres located...
 
Bounce announces expansion into Bahrain market
Bounce, the Middle East based SaaS platform for the early learning industry, has announced its launch in Bahrain with the signing of one of the country’s top early learning establishment, Madeleine’s Preschool...
 
South Asia
 
Ncell improves earnings from data
Ncell has seen a decline in revenues in the second quarter (Q2) of 2022, however increased its revenues from mobile data during the same period...
 
Robi introduces unlimited validity and volume on data pack
The unlimited validity pack is uniquely designed to cater to the customers who doesn’t wish to be restricted by any data validity period...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Sunrise UPC launches free TV offering following Wilmaa acquisition
Liberty Global-backed Swiss service provider Sunrise UPC is introducing a free TV tier as part of its yallo offering...
 
MuxIP to power Dooya TV global streaming and monetisation
MuxIP has entered a partnership with OTT services company Dooya Media Group (DMG) to create a network of premium free ad-supported streaming TV (FAST) channels through a single, customised interface...
 
 
North Africa
 
Saudi Arabia launches Attaa digital hackathon in Egypt
The event is for training of cadres and capacity building, besides motivating young people to share their ideas and compete to present solutions and proposals to serve the communities...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Spark trials New Zealand’s end-to-end 5G standalone network
To test these benefits, Spark has deployed a Mavenir 5G standalone cloud-native core solution on AWS Snowball Edge, a physically rugged device that provides edge computing and data transfer services...
 
Globe 5G rollout adds 993 cell sites in FH 2022
Globe Telecom continued to scale up the deployment of 5G of fifth-general wireless technology nationwide, having completed 933 cell sites in the first half of the year...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Starlink targets ‘full coverage’ of the Philippines by mid-2023
Starlink aims to target villages and rural areas that remain unserved or underserved with internet access services, providing a complementary service to those already provided by other telcos...
 
Superfast broadband boost for thousands of users
The new Superfast North Yorkshire digital network is now available to the majority of premises in the county’s two National Parks covering the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Safaricom begins Ethiopian network pilot
Safaricom Ethiopia has met its latest deadline for the beginning of its network rollout with a phased city-by-city customer network pilot beginning in Dire Dawa City in eastern Ethiopia...
 
Axiata Cyber Fusion Center to safeguard clients' digital data
Axiata Group Bhd and Celcom Axiata Bhd had launch Axiata Cyber Fusion Center (ACFC) to further support and safeguard digital data as part of efforts to advocate cyber resilience to advance Malaysia as a digitally progressive...
 
NTT launches Edge-as-a-Service to accelerate automation
NTT and VMware, in collaboration with Intel, are partnering to innovate on edge-focused solutions and services...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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