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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
July 18, 2023
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Cisco Survey: As consumers shift towards a ‘smarter’ digital life, reliability, security and sustainability emerge as key needs
 
 
Consumer expectations will reshape the needs and economics of the internet. Today, more than 60% of consumers in EMEA expect to connect cars, appliances, energy and water to the internet, and broadband networks must scale to support this...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain sponsors annual NUKS USA orientation session
Member Logo As part of its extended strategic partnership with the National Union of Kuwaiti Students in the United States of America (NUKS USA), Zain recently sponsored the union’s annual orientation session at Jaber Al Ahmad...
 
•  Nokia SaaS service, AVA Charging, selected by GO plc to support 5G and IoT monetization
Member Logo Nokia announced that its AVA Charging Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution has been chosen by GO plc, Malta’s leading communications provider, to help it accelerate the time to value of new offerings for 5G and IoT...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Sonatel awarded 5G licence
Senegal’s Regulation Authority for Telecommunications and Posts announced that it had ‘provisionally’ awarded Sonatel (Orange Senegal) a 5G licence, following the conclusion of a call for tenders to extend...
 
Ofcom promotes social tariffs – enabling digital inclusion
Digital inclusion is a challenge in the current economic environment, but also a key enabler of offering opportunity across all of society...
 
South Asia
 
Robi to borrow US$55 million from Axiata Group for future investments
Robi is the second-largest telecom operator of Bangaldesh in terms of subscribers, revenue and profit and holds 30.2 per cent of the market share...
 
North Africa
 
Egyptian fintech startup Flash raises US$6 million seed round, secures key approval
Egyptian cashless payments app Flash has raised a US$6 million seed round to accelerate its product development, as well as its customer and business acquisition...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
New TNT Sports will bring BT features into discovery+ app
TNT Sports has gone live in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, replacing BT Sport across television, streaming and digital platforms...
 
Comcast to raise price of streaming service Peacock
Comcast is implementing a price hike that will impact subscribers of its streaming service Peacock, the company announced recently...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Telekom Serbia buys another telecoms company
Serbian Business Registers Agency records show that the Globaltel wireless telecommunications company is now owned by the state-owned Telekom Serbia...
 
SLA Digital kicks off Viettel carrier billing deal in Mozambique
Through this partnership SLA Digital is providing merchants access to Movitel’s subscribers through direct carrier billing...
 
Fidesmo partners with Wearonize to roll out a scalable wearable payments solution
Contactless platform provider Fidesmo has partnered with payment services provider Wearonize to “establish a new standard for contactless payments” by offering issuers and wearable manufacturers a more efficient...
 
 
Middle East
 
NEOM’s tech firm TONOMUS launches first digital communications facility at Oxagon
Saudi Arabia’s future city NEOM is up for a major technological upgradation as its cognitive tech firm TONOMUS has opened the first digital communications facility at Oxagon to enhance the availability and growth of...
 
Jordan and Japan to cooperate on digital transformation efforts
Jordan and Japan have agreed to enhance their cooperation in the field of digital transformation, including technical collaboration and exchange of expertise..
 
Ooredoo Kuwait joins forces with Ocean Minded to foster sustainable innovation
This alternative solution provided by Ooredoo encourages responsible practices among water sports enthusiasts while promoting the importance of marine conservation...
 
Bahrain Network: Building future-proof networks to propel the economy
The company is also taking the lead in creating a best-in-class and future-ready communications infrastructure...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Private LTE and 5G networks will be worth more than $6.4bn by 2026
Market intelligence firm SNS Telecom & IT’s new report on private LTE and 5G Networks concludes that global spending on this infrastructure for vertical industries is projected to exceed $6.4bn by the end of 2026...
 
Spark kicks off 5G SA network build
New Zealand operator Spark has kicked off its 5G Standalone network build with technology vendors Ericsson and Red Hat, promising the deployment of a 5G core will be ‘the turning point for unlocking the transformative...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Sateliot joins project to bring rural broadband connectivity out of the Ether
This framework will be used as a baseline for the future of telecommunications, benefitting rural, unconnected areas all over the world...
 
TIM Brasil launches 2Gbps fiber service in eight states and DF
TIM Brasil has launched a new fiber broadband package that supports downlink/uplink speeds of 2Gbps/1Gbps...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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