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February 22, 2023

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Omantel Accelerator-hosted startup AirGo signs investment agreement with Forming Future

AirGo, an Omani startup in Cohort 2 of Omantel Innovation Labs, is set for expansion into the promising market of Saudi Arabia, with the signing of an investment agreement with Forming Future to raise $2.7 million seed round.

Member News

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stc celebrates Kuwait national days with its employees

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, hosted an exclusive family gathering for...

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Nokia bolsters MX Industrial Edge capabilities to meet ever-growing industry digitalization demands

Nokia to offer MXIE in a Hardware-as-a-Service model, reducing CAPEX requirements to allow more enterprises to digitalize operations leveraging OT data...

Policy and Regulation

•	CRAN kicks off 700MHz and 800MHz auction process The Communications Regulatory Authority of Namibia has launched the auction process to allocate frequencies in the 700MHz and 800MHz bands for the provision of 4G and 5G services...

•	Ethiopia prices mobile money licence at US$150 million Ethiopia has reportedly publicised a demand of US$150 million from Safaricom for the operator to deploy its M-Pesa mobile money platform in the country, with talks to be held this week...

Middle East

•	Ooredoo Qatar announces plan to sell towers, build data centres The prospect of investing in tower companies has excited interest among a number of infrastructure equity investors, as well as Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund and specialists such as American Tower Corp...

•	Zain Bahrain FY22 net profit rises 2.6% to BD5.71 million Zain Bahrain has announced financial results reporting a fourth quarter and Full year 2022 profit that rose from a year ago as revenues rose...

•	Metaverse to play a key role for CEOs over the next two years Sustainability is a key focus area for the surveyed brand guardians in the region, as consumers today value efforts related to improving the sustainability of internal practices, the promotion of sustainable products and...

South Asia

•	State of the art digital educational support from Dialog, Sri Lanka Air Force & EWIS for Nalanda School, Trincomalee Dialog Axiata PLC has partnered with the Sri Lanka Air Force and E-W Information Systems Ltd (EWIS) to provide digital educational support for Nalanda School, China Bay, Trincomalee...

•	Zong 4G signs MoU with ‘Knowledge Platform’ In order to address the rising demand for organizational administration, campaign analytics, and the generation of digital content, Zong 4G has partnered with Knowledge Platform, an EdTech company, to help speed up the...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	Unified Streaming secures key Czech client The Czech digital infrastructure company CRA has selected the technology of Amsterdam-based Unified Streaming to power its growing on-demand video streaming workflows...

•	Amazon unveils new Metaverse esports and education project In a world that continues to become increasingly digital, blurring the lines between the ‘real’ world and the virtual, the latter is becoming an ever more present scenario in our lives...

North Africa

•	Egypt’s ICT the fastest growing sector over past five years Egypt’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector is the fastest growing sector in the country’s economy, reaching 16.7 percent growth in FY2021/2022 compared to 16.1 percent during the previous...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	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...

•	T-Mobile partners with AWS to bring 5G Advanced Network Solutions The collaboration will make T-Mobile the first US wireless provider to work with AWS to deliver customizable 5G Edge compute offerings...

Satellite & Internet

•	Sateliot and Gospace Labs team up on satellite 5G enabled water contamination monitoring LEO firm Sateliot has teamed up with Gospace Labs to connect the latter’s IoT solution water quality testing kit to 5G satellite networks, in order that they act as an early warning systems...

•	Vodafone and Altice get EU approval for German FTTH venture The European Commission has given the green light to plans by Vodafone and Altice to spend billions of euros rolling out a joint fiber-to-the-home infrastructure in Germany...

Global Telecom Update

•	PDG plans data centres in Indonesia and Malaysia Data centre provider Princeton Digital Group (PDG) says it has unveiled what it calls its SG+ strategy with the announcement of a 96 MW data centre campus in Batam in Indonesia...

•	NEC collaborates with Intel to achieve market-leading low power consumption in 5G core network UPF to support green networks NEC Corporation has reduced the CPU power consumption of the User Plane Function (UPF) for 4G / 5G networks by more than 30% in a dynamic, near-commercial environment...

•	Deutsche Telekom plans 300MWh battery storage rollout In total, the systems are expected to support 300MWh. The first such system has been deployed at the German telco's head office in Munich...

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