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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
July 16, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat’s E-marine bags the prestigious MARS project to connect islands in East Africa
 
 
E-marine, a subsidiary of Etisalat, bagged a contract from Huawei Marine Networks to install the ‘Mauritius and Rodrigues Submarine Cable System’ (MARS), which covers a distance of 700 km connecting two islands in the Indian Ocean...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain Bahrain signs high-speed net deal with Jashanmal
Member Logo Zain Bahrain has announced a new enterprise agreement with Jashanmal through providing a high-speed internet service to Jashanmal’s nine department stores in Bahrain...
 
•  Yahsat completes MYSAT-1 engineering model
Member Logo UAE’s Khalifa University of Science and Technology and Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat) said that Yahsat Space Lab has completed the assembly, integration and verification (AIV) of the engineering model...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Albania launches 800MHz licence tender
Albania’s Electronic and Postal Communications Authority has issued a tender for 4G LTE-suitable 800MHz mobile operating licences...
 
Digital data is users’ right, says TRAI
Taking a leaf out of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rulebook drawn up by the European Union, TRAI proposed strong data protection laws aimed at ensuring that Indian telecom users have the right to their own...
 
Middle East
 
Alibaba to boost e-commerce in Turkey with Trendyol deal
Chinese online retail giant Alibaba has invested in Turkey's leading e-commerce platform Trendyol, marking the largest internet transaction in the European country to date...
 
Xpress Money enters digital remittances market in the UAE
Xpress Money’s move will aid the United Arab Emirates’ move into a cashless economy...
 
North Africa
 
Vodafone makes moves in North Africa
Vodafone has signed a three-year agreement with Tunisian state-owned telco Tunisie Telecom (TT). The TT deal is the first of its kind for Vodafone in North Africa...
 
Egypt launches digital Instagram channel to promote tourism
Egypt will be launching a digital TV channel on Instagram’s view-platform IGTV, in another attempt to attract tourists to Egypt through online marketing...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
UK ISP County Broadband raise funds to build FTTH in East England
Alternative network ISP County Broadbandhas followed last year’s pilot roll-out of a new 1000Mbps (Gigabit) capable Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH/P) service in the rural Cambridgeshire village of Broughton...
 
Comcast to accelerate downloads in Charleston as Internet providers compete for speed
Comcast is cranking up its download speeds in Charleston, ramping up an Internet arms race that has seen the region's providers increasingly compete over the snappiness of their service...
 
 
South Asia
 
Biman to offer in-flight phone, internet services soon
Biman Bangladesh Airlines, the national flag carrier, has been allowed to provide in-flight phone and Internet services...
 
Axiata to divest 89% stake in Multinet Pakistan
Axiata Group is contemplating to divest its entire 89 percent shareholding in Multinet Pakistan for a token amount of $1 on a cash-free and debt-free basis...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
iflix boasts 250 percent growth to reach 15 million subs
Video-on-demand (VOD) platform iflix has attained more than 15 million subscribers in emerging markets of Asia, the Middle East and Africa...
 
ProSiebenSat.1 to launch UHD service on July 22
German commercial broadcast group ProSiebenSat.1 will launch its Ultra HD (UHD) service on July 22, 2018 with a special edition of science programme Galileo...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Australia's Telstra launches LTE-B
Australia's Telstra has announced the first commercial deployment of LTE-Broadcast (LTE-B) in the nation, conducted in partnership with Ericsson and Samsung...
 
Tele2 boosts Lithuanian LTE-A coverage
Tele2 Lithuania, the country’s largest mobile operator by subscribers, has increased the number of its ‘4G+’ and ‘4G++’ LTE-A base stations from 500 to 760 over the last six months...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
China Mobile International building Singapore data center
China Mobile International has commenced construction of its new Singapore data center, which is expected to become one of the operator's most significant network hubs outside mainland China...
 
Samsung promises secure 3.5GHz gear for South Korea’s December 5G launch
Samsung has announced that it will have both 3.5GHz and 28GHz hardware ready in time for South Korea’s upcoming launch of next-generation 5G networks...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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