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April 2, 2023

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New Cisco 800G innovations help to supercharge the internet for the future

Using Cisco 8000 Series Routers with the new line card, service providers and cloud providers can realize up to 83% space savings and up to 68% power savings migrating from 400G to 800G for IP backbone, metro core, and data centers supporting AI/ML workloads...

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Zain hosts Ramadan iftar banquet for personnel at Nuwaiseeb Border Port

The step comes in recognition of the great efforts exerted by the Ministry of Interior and Customs personnel during the Holy Month...

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Huawei releases 2022 Annual Report: Steady operations, sustainable survival and development

Huawei continues to strengthen investment in R&D, with an annual expenditure of USD23.22 billion in 2022, representing 25.1% of the company's annual revenue and bringing its total R&D expenditure over the past 10 years...

Policy and Regulation

•	ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin receives IEEE President’s Award The world's largest technical professional organization, IEEE, presented ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin with the 2023 IEEE President's Award in a ceremony at ITU headquarters in...

•	CST publishes a public consultation on the National Radio Law Project The Communications, Space and Technology Commission (CST) invites the public to submit their input on the “National Radio Law Project,” which aims to regulate spectrum management in the Kingdom to increase the...

Middle East

•	UAE & Saudi Arabia leading the MENA region in becoming AI hub The findings by firm Research and Markets suggests that the market for the advanced technology in the region will witness a compound annual growth rate of 47.8 percent, with Saudi Arabia and the UAE leading from the front...

•	BENEFIT, receives PCI DSS version 4.0 certification for enhanced security measures BENEFIT, Bahrain's innovator and leading company in Fintech and electronic financial transactions services, has announced receiving the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) Version 4.0 Certification...

•	Saudi Arabia’s palm.hr takes the first step in regional expansion The company has positioned itself as a regional provider of HR technology services with a mission to transform the space and allow businesses to better manage their most important asset – human resources...

North Africa

•	Moroccan mobile app helps reduce water consumption by 20-25% Sowit mobile app includes a water resources optimization product called SOWATER®, which addresses the pressing needs of the agricultural sector in Morocco and various other African countries...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	waipu.tv expands partnership with Cirkus TV The expansion is based on a new distribution partnership the German TV streaming provider agreed with the operator of the streaming service, which specialises in drama, crime series and thrillers from Scandinavia and the...

•	AMC Networks and VIZIO expand partnership AMC Networks has expanded their multi-year agreement VZIO to deliver a range of premium programming to VIZIO Smart TVs, with the addition of the AMC+ app, nine free streaming channels and over 150 on-demand feature films...

South Asia

•	WorldLink’s high-speed fiber internet service launches in Manaslu Circuit The service now brings reliable and consistent broadband experience to the popular trekking site that lies in the Western region of Nepal...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	NextLight uses LTE private wireless to connect low-income students Low-income students in the St. Vrain Valley School District in Longmont, Colorado, will soon have access to free broadband services thanks to a private LTE network deployed by the city’s municipal fiber provider,...

•	Vodafone expands its 5G coverage on the London Underground If all goes to plan, that should mean mobile connectivity is available everywhere on the Underground on all these networks by around the end of 2024, with 5G specifically available in large swathes of it...

Satellite & Internet

•	Starlink to launch broadband services in Ecuador, starting with Galapagos In the initial phase, services will be activated in the Galapagos Islands, benefitting the archipelago’s residents and the 250,000 tourists who visit each year...

•	Telekom Malaysia expands fiber broadband reach Telekom Malaysia completed its new fiber optic hub across the northern regions of Sabah and Sarawak to connect remote locations situated there...

Global Telecom Update

•	Vanu to roll out 200 telecom towers for Orange Liberia US-based Vanu is deploying a minimum 200 telecoms towers for Orange Liberia, as part of efforts to extend coverage in rural areas of the country...

•	MTN seeks BSS, OSS upgrades with Microsoft Azure MTN announced it will migrate BSS and OSS applications to Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform, a move to tap into machine learning and AI to deliver operational efficiency across the operator’s footprint,...

•	Soracom expands IoT SIM and eSIM portfolio with Industrial SIM With this addition to its suite of products, Soracom now offers both standard and industrial-grade eSIMs and SIM cards, as well as iSIM capability...

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