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February 16, 2023

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center3 & stc Bahrain to land the 2Africa Pearls Submarine cable system in Bahrain, connecting Arabian Gulf with Europe, Africa and Asia

center3 and stc Bahrain have officially completed the marine survey for 2Africa Pearls in Bahrain, marking a significant milestone in the development of the overall 2Africa subsea cable project...

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Cisco connects and protects with new cloud tools across networking, security and operations to provide greater visibility and control over networks

Cisco's unified SASE solution, Cisco+ Secure Connect, now supports integration into Cisco SD-WAN fabrics leveraging Viptela technology, providing any Cisco SD-WAN customer with access to fast, secure private application...

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Nokia and Tele2 to offer private wireless to enterprises in Sweden

Nokia and Tele2 announced that they have entered a collaboration in Sweden. Enterprises will be able to leverage robust, reliable, 5G private wireless to connect assets and unlock valuable operational data, to realize cost,...

Policy and Regulation

•	TRA continues with the #YourRight_ToKnow campaign The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) is continuing with its awareness campaign on the protection of the rights of users of various services...

•	UAE’s MoIAT hosts Industry 4.0 Champions Network meet The UAE Ministry of Industry and Advanced Technology (MoIAT) recently hosted the Industry 4.0 Champions Network 2nd Annual meeting in the World Government Summit, gathering CEOs of 18 major national and global companies...

South Asia

•	Robi's profit grows 12 times in Dec quarter Bangladesh's second largest mobile telecom operator, Robi Axiata Limited posted a staggering 1,100% growth in profits in the October to December quarter of 2022, compared to the same quarter of the previous year...

•	Saudi telecom starts operations A Saudi telecom company TAWAL has started operations in Pakistan with a telecom infrastructure acquired from a Pakistani operator...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	Canal+ expands its presence in Africa The Digital Factory was built to identify or produce digital content intended to make the Canal+ application the first African content application...

•	Teleste’s new software helps Telenor ensure excellent broadcast TV service The operator has been using Teleste’s Luminato 4X4 headend as an edge QAM platform since 2021, and the new software now helps it manage the devices remotely...

Global Telecom Update

•	Vivo and TIM cleared to update RAN sharing deal Brazil’s CADE (Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Economica / Administrative Council for Economic Defence) has cleared an amendment to the network sharing arrangement between Vivo and TIM Brasil...

•	Spirent offers end-to-end O-RAN testing and validation Building upon its previously available O-CU and O-RU test solutions, Spirent Communications released its O-DU, and RIC tests, completing its O-RAN test solution portfolio...

•	now.gg Receives Investment from NTT DoCoMo Ventures now.gg, a Campbell, CA-based provider of a cloud-based mobile gaming distribution platform, received an investment from NTT DoCoMo Ventures...

Middle East

•	Shorooq Partners invests in Gulf Capital’s HealthTech firm Gulf Capital (GC) and Shorooq Partners, a leading seed stage venture capital firm, have formed a partnership to back Santechture, a cutting-edge HealthTech cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) company...

•	Orange sees growth from Africa, Middle East Africa and the Middle East continued to boost revenues for Orange as the group claimed success in its 5-year plan to invest in “fundamentals” to achieve growth...

•	Saudi Arabia offers virtual health assistance to quake survivors Seha Virtual Hospital, under the Ministry of Health, extended remote support to the medical efforts of the Saudi Red Crescent Authority (SRCA) in alleviating the suffering of the quake survivors in Turkey and Syria...

•	Qatar picks Sprinklr for unified digital citizen experience Sprinklr, the unified customer experience management platform, has said that the Civil Services and Government Development Bureau of Qatar has selected it as the technology platform to deliver unified digital citizen...

North Africa

•	Terraa raises US$1.5 million pre-seed round to bring safe and affordable food to Africa Moroccan foodtech startup Terraa has closed a US$1.5 million pre-seed round to double down on its mission of building a sustainable food supply ecosystem in Africa...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	itel and Airtel partner to launch the itel A60, making 4G accessible to everyone One of the leading global phone makers, itel, launched the latest in its line-up of smartphones, the itel A60 smartphone targeted at leveraging on existing 4G technology to provide smoother, faster and more stable internet...

•	Newcrest to trial 4G LTE, 5G technologies underground at Cadia Valley Newcrest will trial advanced 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and 5G mobile technologies to assess the potential of cellular delivery of data and video to support a smarter, safer and more sustainable underground mine...

Satellite & Internet

•	Kacific and ST Engineering iDirect partner to extend reach in Asia Satellite operator Kacific and satcom technology and solutions provider ST Engineering iDirect say they have extended their technology partnership to expand satellite connectivity in Southeast Asia and other regions...

•	Claro Brasil FTTH network passes 7.8 million homes in 384 cities Claro Brasil ended 2022 with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure passing 7.8 million homes in 384 cities, it has been revealed...

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