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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
April 26, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
CNT Ecuador migrating to SES’s O3b mPOWER to bring enhanced internet and mobile services to Galapagos Islands
 
 
To help Ecuador accelerate its digital inclusion initiative across the environmentally-fragile Galapagos Islands, telecom provider CNT and SES have announced a major Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite capacity expansion agreement to deliver more life-changing broadband connectivity and 3G/4G/5G mobile services to residents, businesses, and tourists throughout the isolated archipelago in the eastern Pacific Ocean...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain Alshuhoor campaign brought joy in Holy Month
Member Logo Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service provider, successfully concluded its annual social campaign for the Holy Month of Ramadan, Zain Alshuhoor. The month-long program saw the company join the Kuwaiti community in...
 
•  Nokia boosts TDC NET’s connectivity in Denmark with upgraded IP core network
Member Logo Nokia announced its IP routing solutions have been deployed by TDC NET,Denmark’s largest digital infrastructure company, to scale capacity for the fixed and mobile networks provider’s nationwide IP core...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Industrywide Dialogue on Digital Competence, Secure Cyberspace, Sustainable & Green ICTs, and Emerging Digital Ecosystems across Economies to Ensue on May 15th at the SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023 in the UAE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
More mobile phone subscriptions than humans on Earth
According to a study by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), the number of mobile phone subscribers has exceeded the number of inhabitants on the planet since 2016...
 
ComReg is ‘monitoring’ wave of price changes by Ireland’s biggest telcos
ComReg, the telecoms regulator, is “monitoring the situation regarding price changes” after the annual price increases flagged by some of Ireland’s biggest telecom providers came into effect for customers...
 
South Asia
 
SAJIDA Foundation, CholPori team up to improve child education in Bangladesh
SAJIDA Foundation has closed a pre-seed funding round with CholPori Technologies Limited, a digital learning platform that provides interactive educational tools and resources to primary school students and teachers for...
 
Google registers in Nepal to pay digital service tax
Google LLC (Google), a multinational technology company and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., has registered with the tax system of Nepal to pay the digital service tax for the services and products it provides in the country...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
SVOD rebounds in Sweden, boosted by bundled offerings
Subscription streaming services experiences a resurgence in growth in the first quarter following a slowdown last year, according to local research outfit Mediavision...
 
DAZN partners with Airspeeder
The global sports streaming platform DAZN has teamed up with Airspeeder, a pioneering company in flying car racing technology (eVTOLs)...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
China to develop satellite constellation for deep space exploration
China will develop a satellite constellation named Queqiao, or Magpie Bridge, to provide communications, navigation and remote-sensing services for deep space exploration, according to a senior Chinese space expert...
 
Brazil’s Oi leverages FTTR to provide improved indoor Wi-Fi experience
Brazil’s Oi, the first operator in Latin America to launch FTTR, announced the Oi Fibra X strategy last year to provide high-quality connectivity solutions in the country...
 
Converge ICT partnering Epsilon to expand global reach
Fiber broadband provider Converge ICT Solutions has teamed up with Epsilon Telecommunications, part of the South Korean telecommunications group KT Corp, to develop its network infrastructure and services, and to increase...
 
 
Middle East
 
AWS announces opening of new AWS Direct Connect location within Equinix MC1 datacentre in Muscat
The new Muscat location offers dedicated 1 Gbps and 10 Gbps connections, with MACsec encryption available for 10 Gbps connections...
 
Mbank and Dgpays partner on digital wallet in UAE
The collaboration brings together the capabilities of Mbank’s digital bank and Dgpays’ FinTech platform to help business owners, entrepreneurs and freelancers integrate digital payments into their businesses...
 
North Africa
 
Maroc Telecom first-quarter profit edges up 1.8% on African markets
Maroc Telecom, Morocco's largest telecoms operator, said that first-quarter profit inched up 1.8% as gains in African markets mostly offset sluggish growth at home...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
MEGA claims first Kyrgyz VoLTE launch
The IP-based 4G mobile voice service is available to compatible handset owners in all areas covered by MEGA’s LTE network...
 
Vodafone UK launches 5G standalone for mobile private networks
Mobile operator Vodafone has launched a Mobile Private Network (MPN) solution for businesses and other organisations, which supports the latest 5G Standalone (SA) technology...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
NFT interest over time has dropped by 76% YoY
The decline in NFT interest over time can also be attributed to the high prices paid for digital art, which have led to questions about the value of NFTs and their sustainability...
 
BMW rolls out UWB digital car keys for Android devices
BMW launched the Digital Car Key Plus for iPhone and Apple Watch users in June 2021 and has now made it available for Android users with vehicles produced since November 2022 that support the feature...
 
5G technology unleashes new potential of modern tourism
As new information technologies are more and more employed in the culture and tourism industry, 5G intelligent tourism scenarios are emerging across China, such as 5G smart tour guide, 5G virtual reality and augmented...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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