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March 2, 2020

stc Bahrain expands its 5G coverage and launches new 5G Home Broadband plans for consumers

stc Bahrain has expanded its latest cutting-edge technology for 5G Home broadband network covering up to 50% of Bahrain’s populated residential and business areas. This is in line with stc Bahrain introducing a new generation of advanced telecom network services to provide unwitnessed performance in terms of speed, capacity and low latency...

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AT&T TV launches nationwide

AT&T has launched a new live TV service, AT&T TV, nationwide after a successful 13-market pilot...

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Etisalat changes name to mark special month

Etisalat on Sunday changed its network name to 'UAE READS' to mark the National Month of Reading, a countrywide initiative aimed at establishing reading as an integral part the lifestyles of the people in the UAE..

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The Internet Association of Australia announces interconnect via API with PCCW Global

Under the new collaboration, customers of either PCCW Global’s Console Connect SDI® platform or IAA’s peering fabric IX Australia will be able to seamlessly access all network services on either carrier or...

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Pekka Lundmark appointed President and CEO of Nokia

Nokia’s Board of Directors has appointed Pekka Lundmark as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nokia. Lundmark is expected to start in his new role on September 1, 2020...

Policy and Regulation

•	Chile to require VAT on OTT from 1st June Chile is implementing a new tax law that obliges overseas providers of OTT and e-commerce services to pay VAT from 1st June 2020...

•	SCRF plans to issue MTS 5G 3.4GHz-3.8GHz test spectrum in Moscow Russia’s State Commission for Radio Frequencies has made a draft proposal to issue Mobile TeleSystems with 5G test frequencies in the key 3.4GHz-3.8GHz spectrum range in Moscow...

South Asia

•	Bangladesh adds 40,000 mobile subscribers in January Bangladesh ended January 2020 with 165.61 million mobile phone subscribers, up from 165.57 million in December 2019, according to the latest data made available...

•	SLT's profit jumps 28% in 2019 on 6% revenue growth This was boosted by growth across all key business segments of fixed and mobile broadband, global business, career domestic, enterprise intelligent business services, PEO TV, national backbone and digital services...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	IpT Peru and Parallel Wireless pushing OpenRAN across Latin America IpT Peru has partnered with Parallel Wireless to deploy hundreds of programmable virtualised 4G OpenRAN sites for mobile broadband...

•	Poland’s Play says 50% of network now 5G-ready Polish cellco Play says 50% of its nationwide network is now ‘5G-ready’, while adding that it has switched on trial 5G services in Legionowo, a town in the Mazowsze region near Warsaw...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	DAZN expands to more than 200 territories Global sports streaming service DAZN has announced plans to expand massively its reach and presence in 2020, expanding to more than 200 countries and territories...

•	US SVOD subs to top 300 million The number of SVOD subscriptions for movies, linear channels and TV episodes, though excluding other platforms such as sports services, in the US will climb from 199 million last year to 307 million by 2025...

Middle East

•	Orange Jordan, JOHUD renew long standing partnership Orange Jordan has recently renewed its strategic partnership with the Jordanian Hashemite Fund for Human Development (JOHUD), commemorating over 15 year of cooperation...

•	Saudi SAPTCO launches ride-sharing service in KAUST The Saudi Public Transport Company (SAPTCO) in cooperation with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), has launched an on-demand ride-sharing service exclusively in the university’s campus...

•	Mobile app launched to enable UAE customers evaluate government services His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum launched an 8-language "mystery shopper" mobile app that enables customers to evaluate government services and leave feedback or suggestions to improve the level of service...

North Africa

•	Libya's LPTIC reaches deal with Ericsson on network development and training The Libyan Post and Telecommunications Information Technology Company (LPTIC), which owns mobile operators Al-Madar and Libyana and the ISP Libya Telecoms and Technology (LTT), has signed an agreement with Ericsson...

Satellite & Internet

•	Verizon to quadruple fiber capacity after Ciena and Juniper trial Ciena and Juniper have helped Verizon push the amount of data a fiber can carry on a single wavelength to an unprecedented 800Gbps...

•	Geely's subsidiary said to launch satellite in 2020 GEESPACE plans to launch a pair of satellites this year for the validation of relevant technologies and communications system...

Global Telecom Update

•	Globe secures financing for network rollout Globe Telecom has secured debt financing to help pay for record spending on its network rollout this year...

•	LINX expand regional Internet exchange in Wales The London Internet Exchange (LINX) have confirmed expansion plans for their regional Internet exchange in Wales as they build out their network into Next Generation Data’s (NGD) data centre near Newport...

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