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Omantel Hosts Annual Global Carrier Community Meeting

Represented by the Oman
Telecommunications Company (Omantel),
the Sultanate of Oman hosted the annual
Global Carrier Community Meeting (GCCM
Middle East 2023). The two-day event
is organized by the Carrier Community,
headquartered in Berlin, Germany. GCCM
Middle East 2023 is attended by more than
600 telecommunications professionals,
representing decision-makers of more
than 300 telecom operators, content
providers and suppliers from more than 50
countries. The event offered an opportunity
for members of the wholesale telecom
operators community to hold business
meetings. The community represents
companies providing international services centers, among other sectors. The event counterparts, build relationships, exchange
for phone calls, data, SMS and services includes panel discussions and furnishes a experiences, strike deals and other related
via submarine cables, satellites and data platform for the participants to meet their business activities.

Zain Kuwait Joins Rival in Demonstrating 5G New

Calling

Zain Kuwait has showcased its network’s that it has scheduled a commercial 5GNC commercial trials, among other elements.
capabilities for the rollout of 5G New Calling rollout ‘in the near future.’ The company 5GNC leverages the IP Multimedia
(5GNC), having successfully trialed the new has also collaborated with major industry Subsystem (IMS) to enhance calls with new
technology, it announced in a press release players to publish a whitepaper that capabilities for voice and video services,
which highlighted the cellco’s recent provides an overview of 5GNC and its directly over the network without using
participation in the GSMA’s New Calling use cases, the standardization progress data traffic, promising ‘ultra-HD, intelligent,
Summit 2023 event in Paris. Zain indicates to support it, proof of concepts and pre- and interactive calling features on the
native call screen without the need for any
additional or external apps.’ Users can enjoy
‘rich intelligence features not available
in traditional calls, such as voice and
video recognition, instant live translation
in real-time during the call, inclusion of
fun avatars and filters to video calls, and
more.’ Particular benefits are highlighted
for companies offering customer service
hotlines: 5GNC can allow customers to
easily interact with menus to solve their
inquiries faster and more efficiently. 5GNC
also opens up new opportunities for
enterprises to interact with their customers
by allowing them to complete business
transactions through calls. Zain Kuwait
launched Voice-over-5G (Vo5G) in May
2022, claiming a global first in terms of a
commercial Vo5G service with nationwide
coverage.

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