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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
January 13, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
STC announces new appointments of a number of Saudi senior executives
 
 
STC is committed to empowering Saudi cadres based on their qualifications and expertise and to appointing young Saudi qualified employees in leadership positions, in order to enhance the performance of the STC Group in line with its pivotal role in enabling the digital transformation in the Kingdom to the public and private sectors in accordance with Vision 2030...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Zain hosts LOYAC’s Thailand Program orientation session
Member Logo Zain Kuwait hosted the orientation session for the participants of LOYAC’s Thailand Program at the Zain Innovation Center (ZINC) in the company’s main headquarters in Shuwaikh.
 
•  Omantel to renew mobile licence for 15 years
Member Logo Oman’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) renewed Omantel’s mobile telecom licence for a period of 15 years - commencing from February 2019...
 
•  AURAK enters into MoU with Huawei
Member Logo The American University of Ras Al Kaimah (AURAK) President, Professor Hassan Hamdan Al Alkim, and Huawei Tech FZ-LLC (Huawei) Chief Executive Officer Li Shi, entered into a strategic memorandum of understanding in a signing...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
DICT official confident of NMP launch by mid-2019
The acting secretary of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) in the Philippines, has said that the country’s New Major Player (NMP) will be operational by the middle of this year...
 
PTA extends cellphone registration deadline
As per a directive given by the federal government, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has extended the deadline for registration of mobile phones till Jan 15...
 
North Africa
 
Algerie Telecom launching consumer satellite broadband in September
Algerie Telecom Satellite (ATS) will augment its B2B-focused portfolio by launching residential satellite broadband internet services in September this year...
 
3G and 4G Networks
 
Vodafone delivers 4G services in three months
Vodafone Ghana is realigning its operation to begin the deployment of 4G to its customers in the next three months...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
SKT enters automotive digital broadcasting partnership
SK Telecom, connected car vendor Harman and US-based Sinclair Broadcast Grouphave signed an agreement to jointly develop and commercialize digital broadcasting network-based automotive electronics technology...
 
Skyroam vSIM app launched in Indonesia
The company’s ‘SIMO’ mobile app ‘is designed to give users instant access to mobile data without the need for physical SIM cards...
 
Alternative Telecom
 
KPN relaunches FTTH roll-out and targets 338,000 homes
Dutch operator KPN expects to connect an average 6,500 households per week to fiber in the course of this year which should lead to another 338,000 households passed by year-end...
 
FTTH passes 8.2 million lines in Spain
FTTH boomed in Spain in 2018 with a growth of 2 million lines (for a total of 8.2 million lines, according to latest statistics...
 
 
Middle East
 
NSSG and Datamount sign strategic cooperation agreement
Oman based cybersecurity firm, National Security Services Group (NSSG) has signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Datamount...
 
Mashreq enables Samsung Pay transactions via its mobile banking application
Service allows customers to instantly add their credit cards to Samsung Pay via Snapp, enabling them to make easy, fast and secure payments...
 
Riyadh city hosts Internet of Things conference and exhibition this coming February
The event will bring more than 50 speakers of experts together like academics, researchers, heads of national and international companies...
 
South Asia
 
Cloudflare launching three new data centers across Pakistan
Internet users across Pakistan are about to experience a big boost to their internet connection with Cloudflare launching three new data centers in Lahore, Karachi, and Islamabad...
 
7.43 percent mobile subscribers use 4G service in Bangladesh
7.43 per cent of Bangladesh's mobile phone subscribers are using the fourth generation (4G) mobile phone service after ten months of the launch of the high-speed service.
 
Global Telecom Update
 
China Mobile HK enters 5G, IoT collaboration
China Mobile Hong Kong has announced a partnership with ASTRI and HKSTP to collaborate on research and development in areas including 5G, IoT data exchange, autonomous vehicles and other smart city enabling technologies...
 
Europe launches new AI initiative to begin catch-up mission
This month has seen the launch of the European Commission’s AI4EU project, an initiative to create an AI-on-demand platform for Europe and challenge for leadership in this blossoming segment...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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