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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 14, 2024
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Ooredoo Kuwait celebrates public/private partnership milestone with the success of digital platform: [51]
 
 
Telecommunications leader and pioneer of digital solutions, Ooredoo Kuwait, proudly celebrates the remarkable success of the new digital entertainment platform in Kuwait, [51] - considered a collaborative initiative between the Kuwaiti Ministry of Information and FASTtelco, a subsidiary of Ooredoo Kuwait...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Transformational opportunity of AI on ICT jobs report: 92% of technology roles evolve, indicating urgency for reskilling
Member Logo AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium–led by Cisco with industry leaders Accenture, Eightfold, Google, IBM, Indeed, Intel, Microsoft and SAP, along with key advisors–released its inaugural report...
 
•  ICT leaders discuss future of tech talent and digital transformation in ME&CA
Member Logo During the Huawei Seeds for the Future 2024 Regional Final, ICT leaders from government, private sector, and media representatives came together for an insightful panel discussion on the future of ICT talent and the pivotal...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
UAE’s TDRA launches execution of ICT Regulatory Sandbox
UAE’s Telecommunications & Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has launched the operational stage of the ICT Regulatory Sandbox to ensure an appropriate legislative response to newly introduced products and...
 
CRTC expands ability for internet providers to sell service over telecoms' networks
Canada's telecommunications regulator is expanding a decision that allows smaller internet providers to use rivals' fibre networks to offer their services to customers...
 
South Asia
 
PTCL Group to provide Managed WAN and All-In-One Desktop Project for ZTBL sites nationwide
Under this agreement, PTCL Group will provide a Managed WAN solution for 500+ ZTBL Nationwide sites along with All-In-One desktop computers...
 
DirectPay achieves PCI DSS compliance, reinforcing security and trust in Sri Lanka's digital payments
DirectPay has reached a significant milestone by achieving PCI DSS compliance, further solidifying its commitment to providing secure and innovative digital payment solutions in Sri Lanka...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Paris Olympics break BBC Sport record
BBC Sport’s coverage of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was streamed a record-breaking 218 million times online, more than doubling the Tokyo Olympic Games total of 104 million, with 12.2 million people watching through...
 
Peacock subs stream 23.5 billion minutes of Summer Olympics coverage
Comcast’s streaming service Peacock just concluded its second Summer Olympic Games coverage since launching in 2020, and it is already setting records that it will look to smash in the future...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
China Tower inks IoT monitoring deals with two Chinese telcos
The deals aims to help China Tower handle demand for transmission of monitoring data and related data analysis services for mid and high-point IoT devices...
 
Indonesian smartphone market grows
The Indonesian smartphone market grew 20% year-on-year in Q2 boosted by the vendor promotion during the holiday season...
 
TII boosts AI language models with new architecture
The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) has released a new large language model in its Falcon series, the Falcon Mamba 7B...
 
 
Middle East
 
Fiber internet covers over 775,000 homes in Oman
The percentage of families using fixed broadband services went up to 80 percent (561,983) in 2023 from 75.5 percent (536,967) in 2022...
 
Zain KSA names Saad Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan as acting CEO
Zain KSA has announced the appointment of Eng. Saad bin Abdulrahman Al-Sadhan as the company’s Acting CEO, effective from Tuesday, August 13, 2024...
 
World-first telecom marketplace launched in UAE
A first-of-its-kind marketplace for the telecom industry has been announced in the UAE, which will help users make the most out of their mobile plans...
 
Saudi Arabia launches EventTech initiative to drive digital innovation in the events sector
Additionally, the initiative seeks to create a unique experience by leveraging the expertise of government agencies in innovation, ensuring that the events sector benefits from cutting-edge digital advancements...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt’s mobile manufacturing industry booms with significant job creation and investment
This initiative is in line with the ICT sector’s increasing contribution to Egypt’s GDP, which rose from 5% in the fiscal year 2022/2023 to 5.8% in FY2023/2024, with a target of reaching 8% by 2030...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Telekom Malaysia deploys private 5G at Petronas oil and gas plant
Malaysian multinational oil and gas company Petronas has opened a private 5G network at its liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in Bintulu, on the island of Borneo in the central region of Sarawak in Malaysia...
 
Safaricom extends 5G to all counties in Kenya
Safaricom announced that its 5G network is now available in all 47 counties in Kenya, which it claims makes it the biggest 5G operator in the country, although the network still only covers just 14% of the population...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Indonesia's Mitratel goes stratospheric with Aalto agreement
The two companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to that end, focusing on the delivery of connectivity services to Indonesia’s so-called “3T” regions, the most far-flung and least developed...
 
Openreach to light up 312,000 rural UK premises in Project Gigabit next phase
UK’s leading broadband provider engaged in latest step of gigabit access programme to improve broadband for more than 300,000 homes and business across UK...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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