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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
September 13, 2022
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Featured Member News
 
CBO and Omantel sign MoU to offer fintech accelerator program
 
 
The Central Bank of Oman (CBO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel) on Tuesday, September 13th, 2022 at Omantel Headquarters to conduct an Accelerator Program in order to enable fintech startups in the Sultanate of Oman...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  stc Group showcases its most innovative digital solutions at the Global Artificial Intelligence Summit
Member Logo The group will present a range of integrated digital solutions that include most notably, infrastructure, AI platforms that enables multiple sectors in health care, research, agriculture, community...
 
•  Nokia deploys AVA AI software to help NTT DOCOMO enhance 5G network planning
Member Logo Nokia announced that it has deployed its Artificial Intelligence (AI) Radio Frequency (RF) capacity planning software for NTT DOCOMO Inc. to help the Japanese operator efficiently roll out its 5G network and to speed up...
 
 
Recent Developments
 
•  stc participates in KOC’s first ‘Back-to-School’ exhibition 2022
 
•  Huawei's Dr. Wen Tong: 5.5G Is Necessary for Bridging 5G to 6G
 
•  etisalat by e& launches special ‘Back to School’ packages to empower the Education Sector
 
•  Huawei, FTI partner to localise digital energy industry in Saudi Arabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority attains membership in EFQM
The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has announced that it attained membership in the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM)...
 
South Sudan to adjust telecoms tariffs to maintain service quality
South Sudan’s National Communication Authority (NCA) has announced it is adjusting the exchange rate for telecoms tariffs following requests from the country’s mobile operators...
 
Middle East
 
Zain Bahrain continues youth empowerment programme
The programme connects young, inspired university students and fresh graduates with several activation events to gain hands-on experience, mentoring, and the appropriate skills and knowledge to boost their future career...
 
Virtuzone in deal to build V-shaped tower in metaverse
Virtuzone, a leader in company formation and corporate services based in the UAE, has announced plans to build a flagship metaverse office tower in partnership with pax.world, a blockchain metaverse with an early-mover...
 
Iran to launch 'Zafar-2' Satellite into orbit soon
Iran will soon put another domestically-built satellite, dubbed 'Zafar-2', into orbit, said the head of Iran University of Science and Technology...
 
South Asia
 
Chinese Hunan Sunwalk Group keen to invest in Pakistan’s telecom infrastructure
China’s Hunan Sunwalk Group said that it will spend several billion dollars on Pakistan’s Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities to establish telecom infrastructure and fiber industry...
 
Airtel Lanka disrupts postpaid market, reveals plans to reduce bills by 50%
After completing its nationwide 4G rollout to provide coverage to all 24 districts, Airtel Lanka is the first telco to introduce unlimited calls to any network for all of its postpaid users...
 
Content & Immersive Technologies
 
Orange Spain taps into the metaverse
Orange Spain claimed to be the first company in the market to open a commercial space in the metaverse, advancing a broader move by its parent group to enable virtual commerce...
 
Disney Plus celebrates 2 years in the Nordics with 1.7 million households
Just two years after it made its debut in the Nordic market, Disney Plus has an installed base of 1.7 million...
 
 
North Africa
 
Banque Misr signs a cooperation protocol with Opay
Opay will provide the application link for Banque Misr financing products for SMEs and the E-Express loan on the company’s online platform...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
DOCOMO launches commercial 5G SA network with 5G NR dual connectivity
NTT DOCOMO launched the world’s first commercial 5G SA network allowing smartphones to simultaneously utilize both mid-band (sub-6 GHz) and mmWave frequencies...
 
Viettel selects Infinera synchronisation solution to support 5G rollout
Infinera has announced that Viettel has selected its Optical Timing Channel 2.0 (OTC2.0) solution to prepare the Vietnamese operator’s synchronisation network for a 5G pilot rollout...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Itellum selects Hughes to cover Costa Rica’s ‘disconnected zones’
The managed solution combines capacity from the Hughes JUPITER 2 high-throughput satellite (HTS) with JUPITER ground network equipment, enabling Itellum to offer internet service to Costa Ricans...
 
NapAfrica, London Internet Exchange announce strategic partnership
The partnership will mean networks currently connected and peering at NapAfrica or Linx can access either of the exchanges via trusted and mutually available carriers...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Mavenir gives DT cores for continuity from 2G to 5G
Deutsche Telekom (DT) and network software specialist Mavenir have released detailes of the cloud-native 5G Core they built together in Germany...
 
Verizon VRAN velocity gains as fiber pushed to almost half of cell sites
Verizon has revealed it has now deployed more than 8,000 cell sites using virtualised radio access network (VRAN) technology, connecting nearly 48% of its cell sites with its own deployed fiber optic cables, and on track to...
 
Africa Data Centres and Nigeria’s IXPN partner for effective cloud services
The collaboration with IXPN facilitates reliable, secure, connected colocation and cloud migrations for local customers, say the partners...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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