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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
May 15, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Leading Digital Ecosystem Players Highlight Major Digital Economy & Ecosystem Imperatives and Socio-Economic Benefits of Digital Transformation at the SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023
 
 
SAMENA Telecommunications Council’s annual Leaders’ Summit of global and regional leaders, bringing market and government-sector representation from multiple continents, was held in Dubai on May 15th with the overall patronage of TDRA-UAE, partnership from the UAE Cyber Security Council for the event and the ITU. SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023 had the leading collaboration of Mobily, Yandex, Huawei, strategic support from stc Group and Zain Group, as well as members’ ecosystem support of Avaya...
 
Huawei MECA President at SAMENA Leaders’ Summit 2023 stresses that thriving digital economy depends on sustainable connectivity and a large pool of skilled local talents
In his opening keynote at the SAMENA Leaders’ Summit, where the leading telecom and ICT leaders in the region gathered, Steven Yi, President of Huawei Middle East and Central Asia, addressed the audience with futuristic but also pragmatic ICT industry viewpoint, reflecting on the company sustainable approach – Thriving Digital Economy Depends on Sustainable Connectivity...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Cisco accelerates full stack observability strategy with customer digital experience monitoring
Member Logo Uniquely positioned to deliver industry-leading Full-Stack Observability to customers, Cisco announced a new OpenTelemetry-based integration of Cisco AppDynamics application observability and ThousandEyes network...
 
•  Nokia ranked as a leader in fast-growing XDR security software market by GigaOm
Member Logo Nokia announced that it has been ranked as an industry leader in network security by analysts at GigaOm for the company’s extended detection response market (XDR) security platform that provides communication service...
 
•  AT&T and Public Library Association collaborate to increase awareness and adoption of federal broadband benefits
Member Logo AT&T and the Public Library Association (PLA) have launched a free self-paced online course to educate parents, caregivers and families about the federal broadband benefits available to qualifying households for discounted...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Unveiling of ‘Zain Omantel International’ (ZOI) to revolutionize the telecommunications landscape
 
•  On May 15th, SAMENA Council Leaders’ Summit 2023 to Congregate Leading Digital Ecosystem Players to Discuss Digital Economy, Evolution of 5G, and Ecosystem Sustainability Imperatives
 
•  e& and Vodafone form strategic relationship across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
 
•  Omantel and Telkomsel sign up to GSMA blockchain trials for optimised roaming operations
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
ENACOM authorises Project Kuiper to operate in Argentina
Argentina’s National Communications Agency has authorised Project Kuiper – the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite broadband venture that is being developed by US web giant Amazon – to operate in Argentina....
 
Telecom regulator implements mobile device management to check grey market
All foreigners entering Nepal are required to register their mobile phone sets, if they stay in Nepal for more than 15 days, according to a new rule...
 
Middle East
 
KFH unveils Samsung's digital wallet solution in Bahrain
Samsung Wallet is another contribution to KFH Bahrain's continued efforts to improve its retail services and elevate the clients’ purchasing experience by offering them a safe, fast and convenient mobile payment...
 
Saudi Arabia to benefit from new satellite IoT services developed by iot squared and OQ Technology
The two partners will also collaborate to identify target markets, verticals and applications that require satellite IoT services in the Kingdom and provide them with the necessary solutions...
 
Iran continues fiber broadband push
Iran has earmarked US$20 million to continue its drive to pass millions of households with fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure...
 
South Asia
 
Dialog successfully hosts ‘Google I/O Extended Sri Lanka 2023’
With a heavy emphasis on Artificial Intelligence (AI), particularly with Google’s introduction of BARD AI and Generative AI being built into most of Google’s product offerings, the Google I/O Extended event in...
 
Robi ends Q1’23 with the highest self-care app user base in the industry
Robi’s digital transformation journey continued to gather momentum with digital recharge contributing 41.6% of the company’s total recharge in Q1’23...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Disney to combine Disney+ and Hulu in single app as streaming losses slow
Disney is to launch a combined Disney+ and Hulu app by the end of the year, and plans to pull content from its D2C services, with the company having reduced its streaming losses, but not its subscriber declines, in Q2 2023...
 
Global SVOD to reach 1.76BN subs by 2028
Revealing that contrary to recent reports there is still plenty of growth left in the industry, a study from Digital TV Research is forecasting that the global subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) market will increase by 400...
 
 
North Africa
 
Etisalat Egypt by e& and IDT Global launch unlimited calls from Canada and the US to Egypt.
The initiative will enable IDT’s BOSS Revolution customers in the US and Canada to make unlimited calls to up to ten Egyptian customers...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
MTN Rwanda on course to launch 4G by end of June 2023
The subsidiary of South African-based MTN Group is set to challenge the 4G monopoly that has been held by Korea Telecom Rwanda Networks (KTRN) since 2013...
 
Spark to boost investment in rural networks as part of mobile spectrum deal
Telecommunications company Spark has obtained the spectrum it needs to continue to rollout its 5G mobile services, in exchange for an investment of NZ$24 million in rural and provincial network upgrades...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Pivotel to provide Starlink services
Pivotel Solutions has announced that it will provide maritime and enterprise satellite Internet services from Starlink as an authorised reseller of Starlink Maritime and Starlink Business services...
 
United Group to accelerate Greek fiber rollout
United Group and Nova have unveiled a new company that will construct and operate a fiber-optic network in Greece...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
ChatGPT has prompted an increase in AI investment, says survey
More than 45% of executives admitted that the publicity of ChatGPT has prompted them to increase investments in artificial intelligence (AI), according to a recent survey by Gartner, a technological and research consulting...
 
Rakuten Mobile and KDDI strike roaming agreement
KDDI Corporation, Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. announced that the three companies have concluded a new roaming agreement as of April 2023...
 
Guinee Telecom begins public network testing
State-owned telco Guinee Telecom, previously known as Societe des Telecoms de Guinee (Sotelgui), has began the public test phase of its new mobile network...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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