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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
October 31, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
SAMENA Council to hold the industry’s first RISE conference in Riyadh in January 2023
 
 
SAMENA Telecommunications Council announces that the first “Rising for Industry Sustainability & Efficiencies” (RISE) Conference will be held on January 11, 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with strategic support of stc Group, the Ministry of Communication & Information Technology (MCIT) and the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) of Saudi Arabia, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  stc is ranked 1st in Kuwait as the Best Leading Corporate for Investor Relations for the year 2022
Member Logo Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc), a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announces winning the 1st position as “the...
 
•  Cisco announces participation as IT services provider at COP27
Member Logo Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cisco announced the company’s role as IT Services Provider of the 27th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27). Cisco, among others, will provide professional and...
 
•  Huawei summit highlights the role of regional carriers in accelerating enterprise digital transformation
Member Logo Huawei, together with leading regional carriers, recently explored new strategies to reposition telcos as Managed Service Partners (MSPs) to meet enterprise transformation demands...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Poland urged to resume 3.5GHz licensing process
The Digital Poland Association has called on the country’s government to license 3.5GHz C-band spectrum for 5G use as soon as possible...
 
Rohde & Schwarz inks contract for Malaysia’s nationwide monitoring stations
The Malaysian government has awarded German telecommunications company, Rohde & Schwarz a contract for a nationwide system of fixed spectrum monitoring stations that can be remote controlled at one national and five regional...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt invests heavily in digital transformation projects
Talaat pointed out to an increase in the ICT sector's budget in the current fiscal year by 22.6 percent compared to the previous fiscal year, saying the sector's growth rate was 16.3 percent in FY 2021/22, making it...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Keysight combines 5G and Global Navigation Satellite System technology to accelerate implementation of location based services
LBS leverages different technologies, including global positioning system (GPS), GNSS, BeiDou, Galileo, beamforming, and round-trip time (RTT) to geographically locate a user...
 
VOO raises top broadband speed to 500Mbps outside gigabit coverage area
Belgian cable operator VOO is increasing the down/upload speeds provided by its premium ‘GIGA MAX’ packages to 500Mbps/50Mbps from 400Mbps/20Mbps previously...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vodafone, DOCOMO to bring benefits of Open RAN to wider operator & vendor community
Vodafone and NTT DOCOMO agreed to cooperate to bring the benefits of open radio access networks (Open RAN) to a wider operator and vendor community...
 
Boulder’s Zayo expands telecoms infrastructure in Texas border communities
Zayo Group Holdings has expanded its Tier 1 internet protocol network into the key border cities of McAllen and Laredo, Texas, with two new 100G IP points of presence (PoPs) and 400G wavelength capabilities...
 
China’s telecom sector posts steady growth in Jan-Sept
China’s telecommunications industry sustained steady expansion in revenue in the first three quarters, with emerging businesses such as cloud computing posting rapid growth, official data showed...
 
 
Middle East
 
Oman targets contribution of digital economy to GDP at 10%
Oman seeks to raise the contribution of the digital economy to its GDP to ten percent and increase the share of information technology in the digital economy to 30-35 per cent by 2040...
 
BTEA launches revamped tourism mobile App
The Bahrain Tourism & Exhibitions Authority (BTEA) has launched a revamped tourism app for tourists, citizens, and residents plan their tours and activities in Bahrain...
 
Google Cloud CEO, Thomas Kurian, meets high level officials from public and private sector organizations in Qatar
Google Cloud announced a series of new agreements with government agencies, economic trade groups, and local businesses in Qatar – underpinning the company’s continued support of the country as it accelerates its...
 
Dubai Future Labs showcases logistics robots at IROS 2022
Connecting with academics, universities, students, international institutions, researchers and experts in robotics and autonomous systems on the global stage, Dubai Future Labs introduced two unmanned ground vehicles (UGV)...
 
South Asia
 
SLASSCOM ties up with INT@J in Jordan
Under the aegis of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Jordan, an MoU between the Sri Lanka Association of Software and Services Companies (SLASSCOM) and The Information and Communications Technology Association of Jordan (INT@J)...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
MTN Group to host Africa’s first virtual concert in the metaverse
MTN Group has announced that the network will host an Africa-first virtual concert on 30 November 2022 in Ubuntuland, Africa’s metaverse...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
MTN launches 5G pilot in Republic of the Congo
Mobile operator MTN Congo officially launched its pilot-phase 5G mobile network, claiming a first in the Republic of the Congo...
 
Four Malaysian telcos agree to use state 5G network
Four Malaysian mobile operators said that they had agreed to use the government's state-owned 5G network, paving the way for 5G services to be rolled out to customers after months of delayed talks...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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