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SAMENA Daily Newsletter
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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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May 7, 2016 |
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Saudi Telecommunications Co. (STC) drives digital transformation of mobile services, announces “Jawwy from STC”
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The operator has become one of the first telecommunications operators globally to design and develop a new mobile experience leveraging online and social media...
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Batelco launches an advanced IoT connected vehicles solution
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The new Batelco Connected Vehicle Solution delivers a complete transportation security solution and has been designed and developed to address growing market needs, particularly from the education sector...
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Ooredoo wins awards at the Oman Tech Awards
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The awards join a list of accolades presented to the company for its consistency in developing innovative services that spur customer engagement and support today’s digital lifestyles...
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PCCW Global and Türk Telekom International (TTI) sign Memorandum of Understanding to explore joint business opportunities
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Under the scope of the MoU, consideration will be given to making PCCW Global’s GTVN (Global Television Network), a managed end-to-end video transportation solution, available to TTI’s customer base of international broadcasters, video content distributors and carriers...
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Omantel, Infoline unveil search engine "Daleel 1010"
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Daleel1010, Oman’s first interactive search engine, is anticipated to transform information gathering in the Sultanate. The new service offers a database of more than 148,000 businesses, 6,500 plus business categories and 3,000 plus brands in the local market...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Saudi Arabia likely to be ranked among the five top countries in e-governance by 2030
Saudi Arabia, according to the International Federation of Telecommunication (IFT) index on the use of information technology, has been given a performance ranking of 70 percent. The top five places are currently held by South Korea, Australia, Singapore, France and the Netherlands... Read More
- China issues national telecom licence to CBN
The ministry (MIIT) explained that the move is intended to promote its "three network convergence" policy, which aims to accelerate the convergence of radio and TV broadcasting, telecommunications and internet networks... Read More
- Indonesia's MCIT issues draft regulation on OTT
The draft ministerial regulation governs the provision of content over the internet by over-the-top (OTT) providers. The regulation will also require the OTT service provider to comply with the provisions of the legislation in the field of prohibition of monopolistic practices and unfair business competition... Read More
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South Asia
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- Countries in South Asia attract the highest number of attempted malware attacks
Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Westcon-Comstor Southern Africa forges new partnership with ZyXEL
ZyXEL offers a wide variety of products for home, business and service provider customers. Africa remains an important region for ZyXEL, and with the appointment of Westcon-Comstor in the region, its reseller customers can leverage the services, support, technical knowledge and logistical supply chain... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- MTN Ghana commercial 4G launch expected in June
MTN Ghana, the country’s largest cellco in terms of subscribers, is set to roll out commercial 4G LTE... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Asia Pacific OTT market to experience exponential growth
Asia Pacific is a hotbed of premium OTT service expansion that will evolve based on regional nuances, tastes and economics... Read More
- YouTube planning live TV service for 2017
The service will be dubbed "Unplugged" and will feature live broadcast networks packaged with traditional cable networks as part of a skinny bundle... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Telefónica targets growing fibre-based video services in Chile
Aiming to become a full video and Internet provider in the coming years, Telefónica is preparing a $500 million investment in fibre-based services in Chile... Read More
- Global IPTV subs reach highest level in two years
The IPTV market was boosted to a large extent by high-speed broadband rollout, which saw 3.7 million new IPTV subscribers sign up in Q4 2015. Spain, Brazil and Turkey also recorded quarterly growth in double digits... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- XL Axiata taps Amdocs to enhance m-payment platform
Using a managed services model, Amdocs will deploy and operate the MFS implementation, which will replace XL Axiata's home-grown legacy system... Read More
- BT to invest billions on fibre, 4G, customer experience
BT also revealed it is set to run technical trials of Long Reach VDSL technology “in the coming months” to reach the final five percent of the UK that is not covered by fibre. In terms of customer experience, BT’s Consumer arm now plans to reduce the standard time to fix line faults by 24 hours, as well as to handle 90 percent of customer calls in the UK by March 2017... Read More
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