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January 18, 2023

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Cisco and Grand Duchy of Luxembourg renew their collaboration in digital transformation

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Xavier Bettel, Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Chuck Robbins, Chair and CEO of Cisco announced new initiatives to help accelerate digital transformation in Luxembourg...

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stc is the most valuable telecom brand in the Middle East, with a value of $12.3 billion, according to Brand Finance

stc Group, the leading digital enabler in the region, has succeeded in maintaining the first rank as the most valuable brand in the Middle East in the telecommunication sector, for the third year in a row, according to Brand...

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Nokia and UNICEF partner to bridge the digital divide in Senegal

Nokia has announced a new collaboration with UNICEF to bridge the digital divide by helping to improve digital education and training in schools in select parts of Senegal, West Africa...

Policy and Regulation

•	Communications commission approves two major telecom mergers Taiwan's communications regulator approved two separate mergers of the country's major telecom operators...

•	German regulator to check on coverage obligations All three mobile network operators have achieved the required coverage of 98% of households with at least 100 Mbits in each federal state...

North Africa

•	90% of public hospitals to be part of unified digital network The new system is part of a nationwide vision of digitization, and will eventually allow patients to access their medical history through cloud services and encourage the launch of health applications...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Telia to close its 3G network, competitor Tele2 to wait a few years Telecommunications service provider Telia is set to close its 3G network between February and end-of-year 2023, Tele2 said it will wait at least until 2025...

•	Macau’s CTM partners with Amdocs to launch commercial 5G services Amdocs announced that CTM, a leading telecom operator in Macau, has 5G services in the region, supporting both non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) standards to bring the benefits of 5G to the residents and tourists...

•	North Lanarkshire Council give go ahead to replacement mast to improve 5G coverage in Wishaw Wishaw residents can look forward to better 5G coverage after North Lanarkshire Council gave the go ahead to upgrading telecommunications equipment in the town...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	Telefonica, Haivision use 5G for live contribution at Spain Sail Grand Prix Telefonica has been testing Haivision’s solutions with its 5G network and selected the Haivision Air320 wireless transmitter to contribute live video from professional drones at the event...

•	Viaplay Select comes to Canada Viaplay Group and Bell Media’s Crave streaming service have agreed a partnership to bring premium Nordic content to audiences across Canada through Viaplay Select...

Satellite & Internet

•	Guerrilla RF enters satellite communications industry With the move to smaller satellites in low Earth orbits, satellite components need to be compact and capable of higher operating frequencies along with complex modulation schemes...

•	Iliad covers 8.5m homes in Italy with FTTH Iliad Italy has expanded its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) coverage to 8.5 million households in around 350 cities and towns...

Middle East

•	IBM and MBZUAI advance AI for climate and culture A new AI Centre of Excellence, which will focus on finding carbon neutral solutions for existing energy resources and improving access to new AI technologies for Arabic speakers, has been created...

•	Vodafone Qatar provides Mowasalat with customised Big Data service In partnership with Mowasalat, Vodafone Qatar provided a customised Smart SMS service enabled through Vodafone’s Big Data platform to further elevate customer experience during events taking place in Qatar until the...

•	Saudi, WEF explore collaborations in global metaverse village Under the LoI, KACST will work alongside WEF to connect experts and knowledge partners from the public and private sector to identify and unlock new promising markets as part of the ongoing work to transform Saudi’s...

•	Tamatem Games launches payment and distribution platform for mobile games The seamless integration of the platform to both the developers and users is something that has been long awaited in the MENA mobile games market and is now being delivered by the leading mobile games publisher, Tamatem...

South Asia

•	Nepal Telecom to address mobile service interruption issues The Nepal Telecom is going to make systemic improvements to prevent the recurrence of mobile and PSTN telephone service interruption...

•	Bank Asia inks e-archiving deal with Tech One Global Bank Asia has signed an agreement with Tech One Global (Pvt) for e-archiving of account opening forms through a document management system, enabling faster customer service delivery and safe document storage...

Global Telecom Update

•	Raxio Group to develop Tier III data centre in Angola The Raxio Group, a pan-African data centre developer and operator, has announced that it is investing in and establishing Raxio Angola, which it says is the first state-of-the-art, carrier neutral, Tier III data centre in...

•	Mobi to deploy 3.5GHz network in Hawaii; inks MVNO deal covering continental US Honolulu-based mobile operator Mobi has teamed up with Federated Wireless to bring its 3.5GHz Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) network online throughout the Hawaiian Islands...

•	Vívaro Telecom teams up with MDC Data Centers in San Diego MDC Data Centers has announced that its new data centre in San Diego will be ready to begin operations in Q2 of 2023...

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