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December 21, 2020

BT leads consortium to deliver 'Future Flight' drones project to revolutionise airspace

BT took a significant leap into the commercial drones market, as the company announced the formation of a new consortium to deliver a series of industry use cases across the UK’s first commercial drone corridor...

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FBI expands its use of FirstNet, names AT&T for mobility services

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is expanding its usage of FirstNet, awarding AT&T a mobility contract for additional FirstNet capabilities to support the FBI’s day-to-day and emergency operations...

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BWS 2020: Building business agility with FBB network autonomy

With the theme of "Building Business Agility with FBB Network Autonomy", global ICT leaders and industrial insiders shared the latest developments and case studies on Autonomous Driving Networks (ADN)...

Policy and Regulation

•	CITC signs MoUs with Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson to support digital transformation plans The MoUs also include synergy in dealing with global organizations of telecommunications standards, as well as holding training courses for CITC's employees...

•	New ITU publication to help policy-makers to extend Internet access and use to unconnected communities The guide draws on lessons learned by governments, service providers, technology vendors, international organizations, multilateral development banks, bilateral donors, academia and others over the past 30 years...

South Asia

•	High-speed mobile broadband facility for un-served, under-served areas of Pakistan to be available soon The Universal Service Fund will soon be awarding contracts to provide high-speed mobile broadband services to more than six million people in un-served and under-served areas of Pakistan...

•	Mobitel partners with National Institute of Mental Health to provide connectivity solutions Mobitel has joined hands with the National Institute of Mental Health, Sri Lanka (NIMH) to provide connectivity solutions to the patients who are undergoing treatment at the facility...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	RTVE taps TVU for cloud-based broadcast TVU Producer distributed the live event to Television Espanola’s 24-hour channel and to RTVE social media platforms in YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, SDI television, Canal 24 Horas and Instagram...

•	Ukrainian OTT goes Intercity The Ukrainian OTT service Sweet.TV has been made available on Intercity and Intercity+ trains in the country...

Global Telecom Update

•	Telefónica Germany deploys ADVA technology for Germany's first open RAN trial ADVA's technology has been selected for Germany’s first open radio access network (O-RAN) proof of concept (PoC)...

•	Chile joins Oracle cloud family OracIe says the new region will deliver multiple benefits to customers, especially to those in highly regulated industries with restrictions to access servers outside the national territory...

Middle East

•	UAE ranks global 2nd in telecom sector quality The UAE has maintained its first place in the Arab region and came second globally for the second consecutive year in “Use of telecommunications/ICTs” in the Global Competitiveness Report issued by the World...

•	Aramco to bring Google Cloud services to Saudi Arabia Saudi Aramco Development Co, a subsidiary of Aramco, has teamed up with Google Cloud to offer cloud services to customers in Saudi Arabia...

North Africa

•	Softline Group chooses Egypt as regional center for digital transformation solutions Softline focuses on emerging markets to provide them with technical solutions and services, and to help customers keep pace with the requirements of digital transformation through integrated software packages...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Orange upgrades 4G network in Cameroon Orange Cameroon has increased the speed and capacity of its LTE-A network in certain parts of the country...

•	Singtel, Ericsson to deploy high-end 5G connectivity in Singapore The deployment will be enabled by 5G new radio (NR) standalone and daul-mode 5G core network products and solutions, including real-time rating and policy control...

Satellite & Internet

•	Full Fibre Limited to rollout FTTP broadband to 500,000 UK premises Full Fibre Limited has secured a financing deal with Basalt Infrastructure Partners that will enable them to cover “at least” 500,000 UK premises by 2025...

•	Viasat acquires RigNet, expands satellite service range Viasat‘s global satellite mobility services offering now includes a major off-shore component, as it has agreed to acquire RigNet, a provider of networking services to the oil and gas industry...

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