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Mobily to Start Offering eSIM Service

A new agreement has been signed by Intelligence (AI). Eng. Alaa Malki, Chief Market at Nokia, said: “We are excited to
Etihad Etisalat Co. “Mobily” and Nokia, Technology Officer at Mobily, said: be extending our partnership with Mobily,
covering the provision of next-generation “Together with Nokia, we are working to adding next-generation ICT technologies
telecom technologies. The deal is in achieve an advanced ICT infrastructure onto an already strong layer of 4G
line with Saudi Vision 2030, which aims to boost digital economy across the infrastructure to drive digitalization. This
to benefit society by driving digital Kingdom, by taking the economy to the project will allow Mobily and its customers
transformation and the digital economy. next level. The deployment is set to enable to reap the benefits of advanced ICT
Nokia will support Mobily's infrastructure further innovation and digitalization with technologies and deliver on the aims of
with a wide range of products and services new applications and services.” Amr K. El Saudi Vision 2030.”
from its 5G end-to-end portfolio, including Leithy, Head of the Middle East and Africa
radio access, IP routing, optical networking,
and software, as well as the Nokia service
delivery platform, in order to build an
ultra-high bandwidth and low-latency
network. In addition, the network capacity
will be maximized using massive MIMO
antennas, whilst an expansion of Mobily’s
backhaul capabilities will prepare it for a
rapid increase for the network capacity.
The ultra-high bandwidth, low-latency
network will enable numerous benefits
to Mobily’s subscribers as well as public
and private sector customers, including
manufacturing, oil and gas, healthcare,
education, transport and entertainment,
by enabling the use of Virtual Reality (VR),
Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial

Accenture, Intel and Sulubaaï Environmental
Foundation Use Artificial Intelligence to Save

Coral Reefs

Accenture, Intel and the Philippines- But reefs are being endangered and rapidly reef. In addition to being dangerous and
based Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation degraded by overfishing, bottom trawling, time-intensive, this approach can disrupt
have developed a new solution powered warming temperatures and unsustainable marine life, as divers might inadvertently
by artificial intelligence (AI) to monitor, coastal development. “Project: CORaiL is frighten fish into hiding. Engineers from
characterize and analyze coral reef an incredible example of how AI and edge Accenture, Intel and Sulubaaï implemented
resiliency. The solution — the work product computing can be used to help researchers an artificial, concrete reef — called a Sulu-
of Project: CORaiL, an initiative the three monitor and restore the coral reef. We are Reef Prosthesis (SRP) — to provide support
organizations created in 2019 — has very proud to partner with Accenture and for unstable coral fragments underwater.
been deployed in a reef in the Philippines the Sulubaaï Environmental Foundation The SRP was designed by Sulubaaï
since last year. Coral reefs are some of on this important effort to protect our and placed in the reef surrounding the
the world’s most diverse ecosystems, planet,” said Rose Schooler, corporate vice Pangatalan Island in the Philippines.
with more than eight hundred species of president in Intel’s sales and marketing Fragments of living coral were planted
corals building and providing habitats and group. A critical element of Project: on it and will grow and expand, providing
shelter for approximately 25% of global CORaiL was to identify the number and a hybrid habitat for fish and marine life.
marine life. The reefs also benefit humans variety of fish around a reef, which serve The engineers then strategically placed
— protecting coastlines from tropical as an important indicator of overall reef intelligent underwater video cameras,
storms, providing food and income for health. Traditional coral reef monitoring equipped with the Accenture Applied
1 billion people, and generating US$9.6 efforts involve human divers manually Intelligence Video Analytics Services
billion in tourism and recreation annually. capturing video footage and photos of the Platform (VASP), to detect and photograph

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