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Zain Strategically Partners with V-THRU

Zain, Kuwait’s leading digital service
provider, announces a strategic partnership
with V-THRU, the leading Kuwait-based
online platform for virtual drive-thru
services. Through this partnership, both
companies present a new professional
internship program for students and fresh
graduates, giving them the opportunity to
prepare for their future careers by gaining
and developing invaluable skills within the
catering and technology industries. The
announcement was made during an event
at the Zain Innovation Campus (ZINC) in
the company’s headquarters in Shuwaikh,
attended by Zain Kuwait’s Corporate
Relations Department Manager Hamad Al
Musaibeeh, V-THRU co-founder and CEO
Abdullah Al Shalabi, and executives from with staff and customers and receiving/ for students that bridges the gap between
both companies. The partnership comes delivering orders to some of the biggest studying and a unique work experience
in line with Zain’s comprehensive corporate and most notable business towers in at Zain by recruiting youth as the brand’s
sustainability and social responsibility Kuwait, as well as to Kuwait University ambassadors. FUN is considered one of
strategy, which closely focuses on facilities. Zain and V-THRU’s new internship the largest sustainable projects that Zain
contributing to the nation’s education program seeks to empower ambitious has been actively investing in since its first
and youth sectors. The program aims at Kuwaiti youth and support them with the edition back in 2008. It offers university
upskilling the youth by allowing them to proper training resources so they may gain students with a valuable opportunity to
experience a hands-on approach while invaluable skills in technology, catering, benefit from an actual work experience
working within the catering and technology operations management, and more. The to develop many skills and gain expertise
industries, which are two of the most program also features a number of training for the job market on both professional
vibrant sectors in the local market. The courses and workshops the cover some and personal levels. Zain is committed to
new three-month program offers a unique of the most essential business topics exerting more efforts into offering similar
opportunity for students, fresh graduates, like marketing, branding and designing, programs that enrich human resources
and youth who are about to start their operations, technology, and others. Each development in all areas. The company
new careers to join a paid part-time job at participant will receive a certificate after spares no efforts in making its capabilities
the projects and sites V-THRU operates. successfully completing the program. and resources available as well as
The trainees will take part in tracking, The internship program complements reinforce its collaboration with entities and
coordinating, and operational management Zain’s Future University Network (FUN) organizations that provide such initiatives
tasks on the ground, in addition to dealing program, a youth-tailored social program and actively develop Kuwaiti talents.

AT&T Returns Unused Mexican Spectrum, Report

Says

AT&T Mexico has reportedly returned AWS spectrum covering Regions 1 and 2, auction this year. Mexico is understood
certain blocks of spectrum to the Federal and 3MHz in the 850MHz band covering to have some of the highest spectrum
Telecommunications Institute (Instituto Mexico City and Guadalajara. With Movistar prices in Latin America. Successful bidders
Federal de Telecomunicaciones, IFT), returning its entire spectrum allocation pay an upfront fee as well as an annual
due to concerns over the high price of the back in 2020, in favor of a capacity deal frequency usage fee for the duration of the
frequencies. According to El Economista, with AT&T, and wholesale operator ALTAN concession; with licenses generally valid
the telco informed the watchdog of its plans Redes (Red Compartida) requiring a for 20 years the prices of the licenses are
via a video conference on 20 December government-led bailout last year, AT&T’s far higher than the equivalent concessions
2022. It has subsequently emerged that actions will be a cause for concern at the in other markets.
AT&T has returned a 10MHz block of IFT, ahead of its planned 5G spectrum

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