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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
August 13, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
AT&T's FirstNet passes 750,000 connections
 
 
Public safety personnel across the country continue to turn to FirstNet to advance their routine and emergency responses. Nearly 9,000 public safety agencies and organizations have subscribed to FirstNet, accounting for over 750,000 connections in service...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  Al Nasser congratulates the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques on the success of 1440 AH Hajj season
Member Logo Chief Executive Officer of STC, Nasser bin Sulaiman Al Nasser, extended congratulations to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques HH King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, and HH Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, Crown...
 
•  BT's Cyber Index reveals the scale of today's cyber threat
Member Logo The Index gives a high level view of cyber threats that BT protects its customers from on a daily basis and show some of the challenges the company is working against...
 
•  Huawei Mobile Services breaks through 100 Million active users outside of China
Member Logo Huawei Mobile Services breaks through 100 Million active users outside of China and announced developer projects that will support the further growth of Huawei’s partnership-ecosystem...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
AKEP opens fresh auction for 800MHz spectrum
Albanian telecoms watchdog has opened a tender for the allocation of two 2×10MHz blocks in the 800MHz band, requesting bids by 9 September...
 
NCC to decommission 693 abandoned telecoms masts
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) may decommission about 693 telecoms masts alleged to have been abandoned in several parts of the country...
 
South Asia
 
SLT’s operating profit up by 42% in the first half of 2019
SLT Group announced its financial results for the first half of the year 2019 with a remarkable growth of 42% YoY in operating profit...
 
Ncell to support telemedicine initiative
Ncell has signed an agreement to support Dhulikhel Hospital for Telemedicine and Health Informatics Programme...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
Joyn partners aim for winter premium launch and international expansion
Joyn, the German streaming joint venture between ProSiebenSat.1 and Discovery, will likely add its premium SVOD tier to the existing free offering over the winter...
 
fubo rocks up on Roku
The Roku online video platform for free and premium entertainment will now have access to event coverage, news, behind-the-scenes and exclusive programming...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
SKT designs system to cut down 5G latency
The carrier said it developed its own mobile edge computing (MEC) environment to offer the ultra-low latency 5G services necessary for autonomous driving, immersive media services and remote surgery...
 
CenturyLink reveals edge network initiative
The initiative initially will see the creation of more than 100 edge compute locations across the U.S., which CenturyLink will use to deliver hybrid cloud and managed services...
 
 
Middle East
 
ADDA and Trend Micro launch new initiative for cybersecurity
The Abu Dhabi Digital Authority held the Cyber Defense Challenge, in partnership with Trend Micro, aimed at strengthening the protection of Abu Dhabi organizations’ servers and hybrid cloud data centers...
 
Nahid-1 satellite ready to be launched
Nahid-1, which means “Venus” in Persian, is a Low-Earth orbit communications micro-class satellite, designed and developed by ISA in cooperation with the Iranian Space Research Center...
 
North Africa
 
Egypt steadily moving towards digital transformation
Egypt is well on the way towards achieving digital transformation and attaining the goals of financial inclusion...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
Brazil rolling out 4G at breakneck speed
According to telecom industry association Telebrasil, 4G reached 4,573 municipalities (82% of the country’s total) at the end of June, with 144 new localities added in the first half...
 
Vodafone switches on 5G in Ireland
Vodafone has switched on its first commercial 5G sites in Ireland, activating its next-generation mobile network service in 5 cities using standardised Ericsson-based hardware...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Tele Columbus launches 1Gbps internet in Berlin
German cable operator Tele Columbus has introduced internet access with a data rate of up to 1Gbps on its cable network in Berlin...
 
Intelsat partners with Stratosat Datacom
Intelsat has entered into an agreement with Stratosat Datacom that provides for the delivery of high-speed broadband services to sites across Central Africa...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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