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December 17, 2017
 
 
 
 
 
 
Emirates Data Clearing House hosts 15th edition of Annual User Group Meeting
 
 
Emirates Data Clearing House (EDCH) organised its 15th Annual User Group meeting gathering 82 operators from Europe, Africa, Asia and the MENA region...
 
Sudatel and the ITU organized an important event in Khartoum
 
 
Through its training body SUDACAD, Sudatel Telecom Group, in collaboration with the ITU Arab regional office, organized a regional workshop on “Prospects of Smart Water Management in Arab Region”...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Ministry of Communication and STC sign agreement to qualify 800 Students for qualitative jobs
Member Logo The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, and STC signed a memorandum of understanding agreement to train 800 Saudi graduates’ students to qualify them for qualitative jobs that requires high skills in...
 
•  GlobalData and Huawei jointly release network experience index white paper
Member Logo Huawei and GlobalData have jointly released a new white paper entitled “The Future is Now for the Holistic Network Index - Network Experience Index (NEI)”...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  Dr. Biyari honors legal affairs for obtaining ISO 9001
 
•  Umniah reinforces its leadership status in Information Security for enterprises
 
•  Orange Jordan is the official telecommunications sponsor of the “Women on the Front Lines” conference in Jordan
 
•  Etisalat opens first "Business in a Box" digital experience store for SMBs at Sharaf DG
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
UAE foils more than 600 cyber attacks in first 10 months of 2017
According to TRA, a total of 615 cyber attacks against government, semi-government and private sector entities in the UAE were foiled in the first 10 months of 2017...
 
French regulator sets regulatory framework for fiber deployment
Arcep has defined the three-year rules for fiber deployment in France...
 
North Africa
 
Algeria to commission trans-Atlantic submarine cable
Algeria's Minister of Post and Information and Communication Technologies will sign an agreement before the end of the year for a new submarine cable linking the city of Annaba to the US coast...
 
Orange Egypt expects introduction of new frequencies ahead of 4G customer growth
Deputy CEO of Orange Egypt Ashraf Halim said that the current frequency bandwidths are enough to provide 4G services to the company’s clients, but more would be needed in the coming period as the number of users...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
T-Mobile will launch internet TV in 2018
According to T-Mobile, it will launch its own disruptive TV service across the US in 2018 after acquiring start-up Layer3 TV for an undisclosed sum…
 
NIGCOMSAT launches DTH services
The Nigerian Communication Satellite Limited in partnership with China Great Wall Industry Corporation on Thursday in Abuja launched Direct-to-Home TV services…
 
Global mobile Internet speeds increased 30 percent in 2017
According to a new report from Ookla, mobile downloads increased 30.1 percent over the past 12 months while mobile uploads are up 38.9 percent...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
CTG launches joint data center in HK
China Telecom Global and Chinese data center operator Daily-Tech have teamed up with major data center developer Global Switch to open Global Switch's new data center...
 
FreeMove joins T-Mobile US to boost partnership
T-Mobile has teamed up with FreeMove to meet the wireless needs of multi-national businesses looking for seamless global communications…
 
Ericsson and TIM achieve 23.4Gbps 5G speed
According to Ericsson, it has achieved record 5G speeds of more than 20Gbps during a trial with Telecom Italia (TIM) at the Polytechnic University of Turin…
 
 
Middle East
 
Alibaba Cloud set to launch second data centre in Dubai
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, is set to open its second data centre in Dubai next year…
 
Cyber crime to be focus of Dubai tech contest
Dubai Electronic Security Centre has launched an initiative to tackle cyber crime in the region...
 
Boeing wants to put its DNA into UAE’s space efforts
Space exploration picks up steam as NASA and UAE turn their attention to the red planet...
 
South Asia
 
Telenor set to transfer 80% of its network to 4G
According to Telenor Pakistan, the investment is now in the pipeline to shift 80% of its network to 4G-compatibility by next year…
 
MOQdigital expands managed services base to Sri Lanka
An Australian IT services provider with a ‘service first’ mantra, MOQdigital has structured its 24×7 managed services operations in a blended model, combining its Brisbane service desk with the team in Sri...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Antel introduces 500Mbps 4G network
Uruguayan state-owned telecoms operator Antel has launched an LTE-A network which supports maximum download speeds of 500Mbps…
 
Telco expands its 4G network in Sabah
More areas in Sabah now have access to 4G network speed from telecommunications provider Maxis...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
Andorra Telecom completes FTTH network overhaul
Andorra Telecom successfully completed the overhaul of its fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network , while replacing all 35,000 end-user optical network terminals (ONTs) in 229 days…
 
Kymeta launches commercial availability for mobile satellite internet service
Kymeta has announced the commercial availability of Kalo, a mobile satellite internet service that it operates in partnership with Intelsat…
 
Scotland launches superfast broadband program
Scotland has pledged to give every home and business access to superfast broadband by 2021…
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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