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March 20, 2018

Phonegroup Joins SAMENA Council's Membership

SAMENA Council has announced that Phonegroup, a company actively involved in the region's wholesale and retail voice business, has joined its membership of telecom operators and technology companies...

Cloud services agreement signed between STCS and Microsoft

STC Solutions signed an agreement with Microsoft Corporation, where STC Solutions became an official provider of Microsoft solutions and license...

Member News

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Zain opens the doors of Smart Homes at Avenues

Zain held a special event at the Avenues mall to showcase the digital portfolio of services and solutions under its recently launched Zain Life brand...

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Mobily is racing to a smarter future and is developing an IoT-related program in partnership with Ericsson

Mobily in cooperation with Ericsson is preparing an IoT world program to be the first of its kind in the Kingdom that aims to create an interactive platform between university students and staff in order to develop IoT...

Policy and Regulation

•	Active mobile subscriptions increase to 14 million in Sri Lanka The total number of active mobile subscription increased by 2,1 percent to 14 092 104 million for the year to December 31, 2017 from 13 799 648 million recorded during the previous quarter, according to Potraz...

•	Unitel subsidiary secures Zambia’s fourth mobile licence The Zambia Information and Communication Technology Authority has announced that it will award the country’s fourth mobile licence to UZI Zambia Limited...

Middle East

•	Mashreq Bank drives innovation with Alipay payment partnership Mashreq Bank has announced its partnership with Alipay, the world’s largest online and mobile payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group...

•	Avaya committed to driving development of Kuwait’s knowledge-based economy Avaya's primary focus is on customer satisfaction and enabling new technologies and digital platforms to be used and adopted by our valued customers to their advantage...

North Africa

•	Africa’s fiber broadband market set to rise in 2018 The use of broadband by telecommunications companies in Africa is increasing, which will lead to the competition rising for manufacturers in the market during 2018...

3G and 4G Networks

•	Telstra breaks 1Gbps barrier on commercial network Telstra has claimed an Australian first by recording mobile data speeds over 1Gbps on a commercial 4G network...

•	EE cranks up 4G rollout in UK UK mobile giant EE has confirmed that its 4G network has been extended to cover more than 12,000 square kilometres of ‘not-spots’ over the last twelve months...

Global Telecom Update

•	Spark switches on New Zealand's first live 5G test site New Zealand incumbent Spark has kicked off a 5G trial in Wellington, making it the country’s first mobile carrier to do so...

South Asia

•	Telecom sector grows at rapid pace in four years Growth momentum of the telecommunication sector in Pakistan has grown at a rapid pace and undergone an impressive transformation over the last four years...

•	Banglalink launches ‘IT Incubator 2.0’ Banglalink has recently started off the second phase of IT Incubator, a digital platform to foster the growth of promising digital startups in Bangladesh...

•	Dialog Axiata forming data centre joint venture in Sri Lanka Dialog Axiata Group has announced a joint venture partnership with Orion City to build and manage the island's first ever High-Density Data Centre in Sri Lanka...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	German envia TEL launches IPTV with Ocilion German regional network operator envia TEL has opted for the IPTV wholesale solution from Austrian service provider Ocilion...

•	Singtel taps 50 million users making mobile payments in Asia Singtel plans to create a platform that connects mobile wallets across Asia, enabling users to pay digitally in the countries its partners operate...

Alternative Telecom

•	GVA sets 22 March as launch date for FTTH network GVA, a newly licensed ISP in the state of Togo, will launch its new fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network in the capital Lome on 22 March 2018...

•	Gilat launches dual band aero terminal for commercial in-flight connectivity Gilat Satellite Networks has launched a highly efficient, high performance terminal for commercial in-flight connectivity...

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