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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 2, 2018
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  STC announces a contract for TV and digital broadcasting and the marketing sponsorships with the GSA and SAFF
Member Logo STC announced signing a contract on 2st August 2018, for TV and digital broadcasting and the marketing sponsorships with the GSA and SAFF...
 
•  Exercises with stock options of Nokia Corporation
Member Logo Based on Nokia Corporation's 2011 Stock Option Plan a total of 12 500 Nokia shares were subscribed for between May 30 and July 27, 2018...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
• Ofcom publishes WBA and WLAreview statements
British telecoms regulator Ofcom has published statements on both its Wholesale Broadband Access (WBA) market review and its Wholesale Local Access (WLA) and WBA market reviews related to the Hull area...
 
• Trai approves sale of 5G spectrum
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has released its recommendations on the upcoming auction of spectrum across numerous bands, including spectrum allocated for 5G...
 
South Asia
 
• Growth in broadband depicts impact on mobile banking
With the expansion of high-speed broadband internet services, the use of internet and mobile banking is on the rise in Pakistan...
 
North Africa
 
• China can help Africa embrace the technical future
China has written its own success stories in many fields like e-commerce, mobile payments and smart cities and it's natural that new partnerships will emerge between Chinese companies and African companies in those...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
• Kcell expands coverage of LTE network to over 51%
Kazakhstan mobile operator Kcell launched its LTE services in 11 additional settlements across the country in the first half of this year...
 
• Xplornet announces mobile launch plan
Canadian rural fixed-wireless broadband operator Xplornet yesterday revealed that it will launch 4G LTE mobile network services in Manitoba this autumn under the Xplore Mobile brand...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
• CenturyLink aims to increase hybrid cloud visibility
CenturyLink has announced enhancements to its Security Log Monitoring solution designed to help enterprises manage the threat posed by a lack of visibility into hybrid cloud environments...
 
• Three splashes the cash in preparation for UK 5G rollout
Network operator Three looks like it’s particularly keen to be fast out of the blocks, and it has now emerged that the company’s spent £125 million on network upgrades and new IT to support a potential...
 
 
Middle East
 
• Oman's internet subscribers grow by 10.8% in H1
The total number of internet subscribers in Oman, excluding active mobile broadband subscribers, increased by 10.8 percent to 389,434 on 30 June compared with the number in December 2017...
 
• Naoris rollout blockchain-based cybersecurity in the Middle East
IT solutions company PROW has agreed to utilise Noaris' AI and blockchain-based platform to help secure its clients' networks...
 
• Arabic-analysing email security solution launched
Receive Guard, an email security solution capable of learning from and analyzing Arabic-language emails to block business email compromise (BEC) scams and new malware...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
• Triple-digit year-on-year growth in global TV streaming
The World Cup has given a huge kick to online video and research shows that concurrent streams spiked during the football tournament, eclipsing previous records by more than double, while quality improved across all key...
 
• Pay TV goes OTT
Technology choices such as cloud-based delivery of advanced service and adaptive bit-rate-enabled unicast streaming are no longer the province of pure-play OTT TV providers...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
• Gigabit network deployments up almost 40% since last year
Gigabit internet service, including gigabit LTE, is expanding and the U.S. in the lead, reports Viavi...
 
• Microsoft awards grant to CvWireless to expand internet access in rural New York
Microsoft has selected CvWireless as a winner of its third annual Airband Grant Fund to help bring broadband internet access to rural communities...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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