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the matter, Telecom Egypt was reported as saying: ‘Telecom Egypt the mutual consent of both parties. The pair agreed on a cash
is closely following the aforementioned potential transaction to consideration of USD2.392 billion for the UK group’s shareholding
consider all of its possible investment options and opportunities.’ in Vodafone Egypt, equivalent to an enterprise value for 100% of
last week it was revealed that stc had signed a non-binding the company of USD4.350 billion; the final consideration will be
memorandum of understanding (MoU) with UK-based Vodafone determined upon signing of the definitive agreements.
Group to acquire the latter’s 55% stake in Vodafone Egypt. The (February 6, 2020) commsupdate.com
MoU is effective for a period of 75 days and can be extended with

Iran

The Iranian internet service has suffered hours of disruption in head of Iran’s Telecommunication Infrastructure Company. The
what telecoms authorities say was the result of DDoS cyber- official later posted another tweet saying that a last service
attack that was dealt with swiftly. A senior telecoms ministry provider affected by the attacks had reported normal conditions
official said that a “powerful” distributed denial-of-service later on Saturday. DDoS attackers normally use hijacked or virus-
(DDoS) attack that began 11:54 a.m local Iranian time on infected computers to target websites. During such attacks,
Saturday caused users to experience connection issues. Sajjad websites become unreachable after an unusually large number
Bonabi said that the attack had affected several service providers of requests for information are sent to them, causing the servers
in Iran, including two notable mobile operators. He said in a post that host them to fail. Officials have yet to elaborate on the origin
on Twitter that the DDoS attack was dealt with immediately of the attacks and whether they had been motivated by political
using the Iranian Information Technology Fortress, known as objectives. Twitter sources close to the communications ministry
DEJFA. “Through an intervention by DEJFA and cooperation of said the spoofed IP addresses from which the “highly distributed
colleagues in Infrastructure Company, the communications are attacks” had been launched were from East Asia and North
now in a normal condition,” said Bonabi who himself is the deputy America. (February 9, 2020) presstv.com

Jordan

Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC), in promoting the importance of IPv6 deployment, including the many
partnership with the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission benefits and advantages that it offers. We would like to extend our
in Jordan (TRC), successfully hosted a series of workshops and appreciation to the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission
training sessions aimed at increasing the awareness about IPv6 in Jordan (TRC) for the important role and engagement in the
deployment in Amman, Jordan. The sessions, which took place nation’s transition to IPv6”. The trainings and workshops fall
recently at Le Royal hotel were attended by representatives from in line with the RIPE NCC commitment towards supporting its
telecom operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), TRC and key members in the Middle East Region with technical expertise
stakeholders from the private sector. The sessions were aimed at related to IPv6 deployment and other networking topics.
educating participants about IPv6 deployment and other related (February 5, 2020) zawya.com
topics. Two training courses were conducted over three days. A
basic IPv6 training course, which discussed IPv6 adoption and The Jordanian Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship
deployment, and an advanced IPv6 training course, which looked (MoDEE) has migrated its ICT infrastructure to the cloud, as part
at the similarities between IPv4 and IPv6 and how to make your of its ongoing digitalization process. The MoDEE completed
network IPv6 ready. Maha Ziad Mouasher, Studies and Research the migration using Nutanix’s enterprise cloud software. The
Officer at TRC said: “TRC remains steadfast in its commitment move will help the Jordanian government provide a whole new
to provide the much-needed support to further expand Internet range of online services to its citizens. “We don’t like to call it
connectivity and to enhance telecommunications services e-government anymore; it’s a digital transformation for Jordan,
nationwide, including the efforts to promote IPv6 deployment. We where we move to a digital economy – where we allow each and
are pleased at the success of this collaborative event with RIPE every service to be provided digitally and paid for digitally,” said HE
NCC and we look forward to working closely with them across Mothanna Gharaibeh, Jordan’s Minister of Digital Economy and
future endeavors”. Chafic Chaya, Regional Communications Entrepreneurship. “This cannot happen without having everything
Manager at RIPE NCC said, “We are very pleased at the successful on the cloud – quick and efficient. So Nutanix has indeed been a
turnout of these training sessions in Amman, which was aimed at good partner in helping us to deliver this mandate.” The MoDEE

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