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Industry News Briefing
January 19, 2023

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e& commits to the Global ESG Disclosure Initiatives

e& (formerly known as Etisalat Group) reaffirmed its ESG commitments by joining the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics, joining more than 100 global companies that are aligning their performance reporting with environmental, social and governance (ESG) indicators and consistently tracking their contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)...

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AT&T picked to expand fiber across Sedgwick County, Kansas

The Kansas Office of Broadband Development announced a project with AT&T to expand AT&T Fiber to more than 10,000 additional customer locations in Sedgwick County...

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Zain strategically partners with V-THRU

Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, announces a strategic partnership with V-THRU, the leading Kuwait-based online platform for virtual drive-thru services. Through this partnership, both companies present...

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Nokia to publish fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 financial report and provide Group Progress Update on 26 January 2023

Nokia will publish its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 financial results on 26 January 2023 at approximately 8 a.m. Finnish time (EET)...

Policy and Regulation

•	UN tech agency aims for inclusive metaverse experience The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has established an expert focus group to work towards international technical standards for the metaverse...

•	iGA to launch BeAware Bahrain app with new features This comes in line with the directives of the government and will enhance the user experience of the application, being one of the most prominent national initiatives that reflects eTransformation and the employment of...

•	Nkom officially opens 3.8GHz-4.2GHz band for local 5G network deployments Norway’s National Communications Authority has confirmed that the 3.8GHz-4.2GHz band has been made available for the deployment of local 5G networks...

North Africa

•	Sovereign Fund of Egypt, Etisalat Egypt launch Erada Microfinance The partnership is in line with Egypt’s Vision 2030 of supporting financial inclusion and creating opportunities for the youth through providing innovative financial services and digitally enabled lending products...

Satellite & Internet

•	Sateliot collaborates with Sensefinity for at-sea satellite 5G IoT Specifically, the two companies say they will be able to facilitate the first technology of data transmission from 1,000 smart containers that will save medium shipping companies up to $1.4m per year on container maintenance...

•	América Móvil and Telxius to build subsea cable linking Guatemala with US América Móvil and Telxius are working together to deploy a new subsea cable that will connect Guatemala with the US...

•	Play hails network deployment Polish operator Play hailed its fixed network build-out in 2022 which resulted in the deployment of 10,500 base stations and over six million FTTH connections...

Global Telecom Update

•	Orange Madagascar and NuRAN announce NaaS deal Operator Orange Madagascar and supplier of mobile and broadband wireless infrastructure solutions NuRAN have announced a network-as-a-service (NaaS) agreement...

•	NEC provides billing gateway for DOCOMO's standalone 5G system NEC has provided DOCOMO with a Charging Gateway Function (CGF) for high-performance processing of billing information, which is becoming increasingly complex due to the growing sophistication of service menus...

•	Mavenir packs Open Beam and Open RAN and sends them on their FWA to the country Cloud software specialist Mavenir has blended its Open Virtualized RAN, Converged Packet Core and OpenBeam portfolio of radio units into a Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) system that could extend their remit enormously...

Middle East

•	Deloitte launches Jordan Digital Center to provide clients with a range of tech solutions The launch of Jordan Digital Center (JDC) is a strategic move in the growth plans of the professional services organisation, scaling up its investment in local talent and delivering impact to clients.

•	MBC extends deal with Warner Bros. Discovery Saudi broadcaster MBC Group has extended its partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery to continue bringing the latter’s content as well as adding new Cartoon Network offerings for audiences across the MENA region...

•	Sharjah Sat 1: First signal received from emirate's first satellite The Sharjah Sat 1 nanosatellite was launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on January 3 to study the Sun and space weather...

South Asia

•	Fiber@Home partners with Cisco to enable 5G-ready network across Bangladesh The partnership will help the service provider seamlessly deploy an automated transport 5G-ready network across Bangladesh and support increased bandwidth demand from businesses of all sizes...

•	Pakistan wants to boost ties with Sweden in field of IT, Telecom The Swedish delegation presented different proposals on technology use in education, health, agriculture etc and that climate changes and issues like food scarcity can be better tackled through the use of artificial...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	KT's cloud streaming tech brings art gallery into metaverse South Korea’s telecom giant KT Corp. is undergoing digital transformation and making business opportunities out of it with its advanced cloud streaming technology...

•	Vodafone Deutschland debuts 5G-enabled Watch Party for Bundesliga with DAZN Vodafone Deutschland is introducing new 5G-enabled features to its Bundesliga football coverage in partnership with rightsholder DAZN...

•	Nielsen expands Netflix partnership Nielsen has expanded its relationship with Netflix (which includes a multi-year agreement to provide linear and streaming audience data across the US, Mexico and Poland...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Comcast and Celona supply CBRS private 4G/5G system to California fairgrounds Comcast and Celona have deployed a private 4G/5G network using the CBRS band at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California...

•	EE extends 4G coverage to eight more rural areas across Cheshire Mobile network EE says that it has built or upgraded more than eight 4G sites across Cheshire since December 2021, as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) initiative...

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