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February 5, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Huawei and China Unicom Guangdong Win GSMA's "5G Productivity Challenge"
 
 
China Unicom Guangdong and Huawei's 5G Digital Fishing project won GSMA's "5G Productivity Challenge" Award. The award recognizes the two companies’ innovative capabilities in 5G, in this case for extending first-class wireless coverage to fishermen at sea...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  South Carolina Broadband Office Announces Plans to Deliver AT&T Fiber-Powered Broadband to more than 9,000 Customer Locations in Charleston and Greenville
Member Logo The South Carolina Broadband Office announced a project with AT&T* to expand AT&T Fiber to more than 9,000 additional customer locations in Greenville and Charleston. In Greenville, AT&T has been selected to build AT&T Fiber...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Nokia builds multi-terabit pan-Africa optical backbone for Liquid Intelligent Technologies
 
•  Zain completes first cohort of ‘WE SUCCEED’ succession planning program
 
•  Five start-ups selected for CBO’s Fintech Accelerator powered by Omantel
 
•  e& international launches ‘e& partner networks’
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Qatar participates in the 29th meeting of GCC Committee for Under-Secretaries of Post and Telecommunications
Qatar participated in the 29th Meeting of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) Committee for Under-Secretaries of Post and Telecommunications, conducted via videoconferencing technology. Qatar's...
 
Middle East
 
UAE ranks 3rd globally for superior digital government services
Strong adoption and delivery and higher implications for emerging digital government services have placed UAE in the 3rd position globally in providing superior digital government services, says a study...
 
Bahraini ICT firms set to attend Riyadh event
Organizers said they expect around 100,000 tech innovators and disruptors to attend LEAP’s various stages housing 15 conferences. More than 20 Bahraini ICT companies have confirmed their participation in LEAP – a...
 
Vodafone Qatar named world’s fastest mobile network
Vodafone Qatar is the World’s Fastest Mobile Network, according to results from consumer-initiated tests taken with Speedtest® by Ookla®. Revealed as the fastest amongst mobile operators worldwide in the...
 
North Africa
 
Etisalat Egypt signs $132m financing deal for expansion plan
Etisalat Egypt signed a financing agreement worth EGP4 billion (US$132 million) with the Commercial International Bank (CIB), a move to expand digital services and upgrade infrastructure. Etisalat Egypt CEO Hazem Metwally...
 
TSTT promises more fibre deployment for Trinidad and Tobago
The CEO of Telecommunication Services of Trinidad and Tobago (TSTTP) has announced a major investment in fibre rollout across the island country. Lisa Agard said her company recently approved an investment of more than...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Sky launches Entertainment OS 1.1
Entertainment OS 1.1 will introduce personalised playlists, a new ‘Play’ voice command and enhanced bluetooth features on the system to help viewers watch and find content quicker...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Starlink Testing Next Gen LEO Satellite Broadband Dishes
SpaceX’s popular Starlink service, which harnesses a mega constellation of compact satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to deliver low latency ultrafast broadband speeds to homes, has been given approval to test up to...
 
 
South Asia
 
NTC customers exceed 21.3 million in number
The Nepal Telecommunications Company Limited (Nepal Telecom) – the state-owned telecommunications service providers in Nepal – has turned 19 today. Telecom Spokesperson Shovan Adhikari shared that the Company has...
 
Dialog Smart Home Launches ‘Wi-Fi Mesh’ for Seamless Wi-Fi at Home
The easy-to-setup Wi-Fi Mesh device will boost the existing Wi-Fi connection throughout the entire home to ensure complete Wi-Fi coverage and a superior online experience. This addresses the needs of modern-day users that...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
ArcelorMittal deploys private 4G/5G
The initiative, supported by the French government as part of the France Relance economy revival plan, is now enabling the first industrial use cases to be implemented at the ArcelorMittal site in Dunkerque.
 
Telekom launches hybrid 5G solution
Telekom Deutschland, the domestic fixed and mobile business of Germany’s Deutsche Telekom (DT), has launched its ‘Hybrid 5G’ solution, bringing fixed network and mobile together to provide fast, reliable...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
FICO and FPG bringing digital transformation solutions to West Africa
Global analytics software provider FICO has partnered with FPG Technologies & Solutions to bring advanced decision management and analytics tools to companies across West Africa. “West African companies are engaged in...
 
China telcos see IoT growth on back of big connection numbers
According to figures from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China had 1.85 billion IoT connections and 1.68 billion mobile connections at the end of 2022. The biggest proportion of the IoT services...
 
Bouygues Telecom to decommission 2G in 2026, 3G to follow in 2029
Bouygues Telecom is aiming to shut down its 2G network at the end of 2026, with 3G services to be decommissioned by 2029, local news source L’Usine Digitale writes. Jean-Christophe Ravaux, B2B Market Director at...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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