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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 15, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
e& enterprise and SentiOne seal partnership to offer omni-channel conversational AI solutions for business customers
 
 
e& enterprise, part of e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group), and leading conversational AI platform provider, SentiOne, have signed a strategic commercial partnership to offer omni-channel conversational AI, sentiment analysis and social listening solutions to government institutions and enterprises in the UAE and MENA region...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  The 9th Annual Internal Audit Conference honours stc Group
Member Logo His Excellency the President of the General Court of Audit and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Association of Internal Auditors Dr Hussam Al-Anqari, honoured stc Group for its digital support and sponsorship...
 
•  Nokia and FCCN connect Portugal’s leading universities with 100Gb/sec long-haul optical transport network
Member Logo Nokia has announced it is building a nation-wide optical transport network spanning 3,000km for FCCN, in Portugal, connecting universities and research centers in 26 cities...
 
•  Huawei and OPPO sign global patent cross-licensing agreement
Member Logo Huawei and OPPO have announced the signing of a global patent cross-licensing agreement, which covers cellular standard essential patents, including 5G...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
ComReg announces results of multi-band spectrum auction’s main stage
Ireland’s Commission for Communications Regulation has published the results of the main stage of its ‘Multi Band Spectrum Award’ sale process, to determine the winners and prices for a total of 470MHz of...
 
TDRA expands "Kashif" service to include all companies registered in the UAE
Under the initiative, the name and number of the company appears to the call recipient so that they recognize the calling entity and decide whether to answer the call or not...
 
Middle East
 
Zscaler announces new plan to help businesses build a successful Zero Trust strategy
To further support digital transformation across the Middle East, the company has invested aggressively in building out its locally based infrastructure in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar and Kuwait with multiple sales teams,...
 
AWS launches AWS Local Zones location in Muscat Oman
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the launch of a new AWS Local Zones location in Muscat, Oman, which gives customers the ability to easily deploy applications located close to end users in the metro area...
 
Imo debuts all-new imoPay in Jordan in partnership with UWallet
Facilitating digital payments was an organic next step in imo’s evolution, while leveraging the app’s widespread presence on smartphones, ease of access, and user familiarity...
 
South Asia
 
Tourist SIM to be launched soon in Bangladesh
Validity periods of 7, 15 or 30 days can be availed and a maximum of two SIMs can be registered against one passport...
 
HEC in partnership with Microsoft launches The Free Skills Initiative for Students
Higher Education Commission (HEC) and Microsoft renewed the Education Transformation Agreement (ETA) in Pakistan with a magnanimous launch announcing 100,000 free Technology certifications for University Students across...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Telia switches off 3G network
The 3G spectrum is being refarmed for improving 4G network coverage and capacity, as well as the deployment of IoT technologies...
 
EE boosts 4G coverage in 500 more rural areas
EE has built or upgraded over 500 4G sites across the UK since December 2021, the operator has announced...
 
 
North Africa
 
B2B startup Suplyd raises US$1.6 million pre-Seed round
Suplyd, an Egypt-based startup that digitises supply chain operations for the Mena region’s hotels, restaurants, and catering (HORECA) industries, announced its US$1.6 million pre-seed round funded by Endure Capital,...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Sport1 launches smart TV app
The TV app is initially available on Android TV, Apple tvOS and Amazon Fire TV as well as on the web at www.sport1.tv, other smart TV manufacturers such as Samsung and LG will follow soon...
 
Verizon launches +Play in bid to solve consumer subscription overload
US telco Verizon has launched a beta version of its new web-based platform +Play, which it says will take the pain out of managing multiple content subscription...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Microsoft and Viasat form partnership to deliver internet to the underserved globally
This first of its kind global partnership for Airband is an important step in reaching the Initiative's expanded goal of delivering internet access to a quarter of a billion people across the world, including 100 million...
 
MTN SA lands longest undersea cable 2Africa in Western Cape
MTN South Africa and MTN GlobalConnect, in partnership with the 2Africa consortium, which includes China Mobile International, Meta, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, center3, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC, has landed the 45...
 
Dedicado boosts connectivity between Argentina and Uruguay with Ciena
Dedicado has deployed a high-capacity resilient network between Argentina and Uruguay using solutions from Ciena...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Vietnam reports 71 million internet users
Vietnam has reported 71 million internet users in the country as the nation marked 25 years of internet connectivity while repeating ambitions to become a connectivity powerhouse in Asia...
 
Qualcomm unveils lowest-power IoT-optimised LTE modem
Integrated terrestrial positioning support to the fore as Qualcomm launches IoT-optimised LTE modem with integrated positioning support for greater connectivity, location and compute processing capabilities on device and at...
 
Vodafone Hungary deploys Netcracker cloud BSS, OSS solutions to boost digital transformation for fixed-mobile convergence
Netcracker Technology has announced that it has successfully delivered BSS2Cloud, a cloud-based solution that supports fixed-mobile convergence for Vodafone Hungary’s B2C and small and medium enterprise customers with...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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