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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 31, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Racing Strengthen Partnership to Revolutionize Fan Experience
 
 
Tech Mahindra has partnered with Mahindra Racing, the greenest team in motorsport and the only Indian team to compete in ABB FIA Formula E World Championship, for the fifth consecutive season. This partnership was announced today in Riyadh on the opening race day for Season 8 of Formula E...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain upgraded to A- in latest ‘CDP Score Report – Climate Change 2021’, ranking it first in region and among leaders globally
Member Logo Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in seven markets across the Middle East and Africa has scored an A- in the latest CDP Score Report – Climate Change 2021, which ranks the company within the Leadership...
 
•  Etisalat Digital and Oracle to host business solutions for Transguard Group
Member Logo Etisalat Digital has announced that Transguard Group, the UAE’s leading business support and outsourcing provider, has selected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to migrate their on-premises solutions...
 
•  Nokia Core Networks business chooses AMD EPYC™ processors to help lower energy use, costs for CSPs
Member Logo Nokia announced that its Core Networks business is using 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to power the servers that deliver Nokia Core cloud-native software products, expanding the server-chip choices available to Nokia...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
SPRK confirms results of 1.5GHz auction; Tele2, LMT and Bite secure airwaves
Latvian telecoms watchdog the Public Utilities Commission has finalised the results of its auction of spectrum rights in the 1.5GHz band...
 
Brazil regulator moves ruling on Oi mobile ops sale
Brazilian telecom regulator Anatel postponed its ruling on the sale of Oi SA OIBR3.SA mobile operations, as one of its board members asked for more time to analyze the matter...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Liberty to switch off Puerto Rican 3G network on 22 February
Liberty Mobile has announced that it will be the first mobile service provider in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands to complete the shutdown of its 3G network, which will take place on 22 February...
 
China Mobile claims a 5G SA speed record of 3Gbps
China Mobile (CMCC), Nokia, and MediaTek have successfully verified the world's first 3 Components (3CC) Carrier Aggregation (CA) technology in Shanghai, China...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Hughes signs new agreement with NSS
Hughes Network Systems and Network Services Solutions (NSS) have signed an eight-year agreement to upgrade, expand and manage the satellite monitoring network for a large petroleum customer of NSS...
 
Telekom rolls out fiber network to 463 new development areas
Telekom Deutschland, the fixed and mobile unit of Deutsche Telekom (DT), rolled out its fiber-optic network to an additional 463 new development areas in the fourth quarter of 2021...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Optiva grows partnership with Google Cloud to increase telecom customer success
Through this collaboration with Google Cloud, Optiva customers can purchase its flagship products, Optiva BSS Platform and Optiva Charging Engine, via Google Cloud Marketplace as a SaaS solution...
 
Telenity deploys VAS consolidation solution in Vodafone Turkey
Telenity’s solution, labeled as “CMS” (Call Management System) under Vodafone Turkey’s network, will be taking over the responsibility of all call completion functions, including Voice Mail, Missed...
 
Vietnam to develop broadband telecoms to better serve users’ needs
Although the trend of developing fixed broadband services is inevitable to serve the digital transformation in Vietnam in general as well as the increase in people's demand for Internet use in particular, the pressure on...
 
 
Middle East
 
Khimji Ramdas ICT, Motori form strategic alliance
Oman’s Khimji Ramdas ICT, a leader in IT and telecom, and UAE-based Motori for Smart Services have announced a strategic alliance to digitally transform the automotive insurance claims industry in the Sultanate...
 
65 percent of Jordanians use the internet
According to a specialist in data science and cybersecurity, Jordan ranks first in the number of social network users in relation to internet users...
 
Online classes could return in Kuwait
Increasing number of corona cases entails that the Ministry of Education should submit a recommendation to hold online classes in the second semester of academic year 2021/2022...
 
Key FinTech event to discuss industry trends
The session will serve as a wrap up of the four previous FinTech Series powered by KFH Bahrain where topics such as financial inclusion, SME digitization, sustainable finance, and innovation in retail banking were...
 
UAE: App that can diagnose 45 heart diseases in 10 seconds launched
The application is up to 95 per cent accurate and can diagnose conditions like cardiac arrhythmia, conduction disorders, myocardial infarction, ventricular and atrial hypertrophy, pericarditis, angina pectoris...
 
South Asia
 
Pakistan up 14 places in internet network residency index
Pakistan was ranked 111 in the 2020 ranking, the reports claimed while adding that the country now ranked 68 on adopting new technologies...
 
North Africa
 
Egyptian start-up Splendapp receives seed funding from Saudi investors
Egyptian start-up Splendapp, which specialises in creating and designing mobile applications, announced its success in the first seed funding round from Saudi angel investors without disclosing the value of the funding...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
SPI launches Dizi with Megogo in multiple countries
SPI/FilmBox and Megogo, one of the largest OTT/VOD services in Eastern Europe and the CIS, have extended their distribution deal for three more years...
 
Deutsche Telekom and Google expand partnership in TV, cloud and messaging
Deutsche Telekom has unveiled an expanded partnership with Google spanning enhanced mobile messaging for businesses, a new ‘sovereign cloud’ for Germany and its new Android TV-powered Magenta TV One set-top...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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