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SAMENA Telecommunications Council - Logo Industry News Briefing
December 14, 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
Etisalat highlights 5G and digital transformation initiatives at Telecom Review industry event
 
 
Hatem Dowidar, CEO, Etisalat International, participated in a debate on the topic 5G serving societies. Kamal Shehadi, Chief Legal and Regulatory Affairs Officer, Etisalat International, participated in the panel focusing on The Year of 5G deployments: from Planning to Reality. Key discussion topics were 5G economics and use cases, including lessons learned from initial 5G deployments, 5G serving the next wave of traffic growth, importance of fiber backbone in 5G deployments; and the gaps and solutions for a complete commercial deployment...
 
TRA UAE organizes a workshop on Shaping the Future and Innovation
The five-day workshop comes in implementation of TRA's Innovation Strategy, which aims to instill and foster the innovation culture in the corporate work environment and empower TRA's employees in shaping the future. The Workshop included several stages, the first of which started with defining the challenges facing the TRA in fulfilling its entrusted responsibilities efficiently, while the second stage was to find unprecedented innovative solutions by ways and methods not previously used. The Workshop resulted in a set of innovative ideas to be considered by a TRA-determined competent committee, with the best ideas to be selected and developed to become actionable, and later implemented by a team consisting of the best idea...
 
Saudi ICT sector’s seven key avenues of growth
Saudi Arabia has embarked on a bold national-level change management program, driven by the significant growth already in motion in the ICT sector...
 
 
 
Member News
 
•  5G network officially launched in Oman
Member Logo Omantel has launched the commercial 5G network; starting with 5G Home services Omantel customers can get high-speed internet services...
 
•  Etihad Etisalat announces the signing of SAR 7.6 billion refinancing Murabaha Facility Agreement with a group of Saudi Banks
Member Logo The refinancing agreement will significantly reduce the cost of debt for the company over the coming few years and it is part of the company’s management continues efforts to improve liquidity and improve terms and...
 
•  VIVA receives AUM students as part of CSR program
Member Logo VIVA Kuwait has extended a warm welcome to the students of the American University of the Middle East ‘AUM’, who were given the opportunity to visit VIVA’s Headquarters located in Olympia Tower to attend...
 
•  Microsoft launches the Windows PC affordability in Africa Initiative
Member Logo Providing consumers with an enhanced, authentic experience using genuine software, and in so doing, creating awareness around the topic at hand encompasses two key objectives of this initiative...
 
•  Saudi Ministry of Health, Huawei sign MoU to collaboration on smart healthcare
Member Logo The MoU outlines a desire by the Ministry to adopt new models of care and to accelerate business transformation using digital infrastructure...
 
•  Nokia wins Deutsche Bahn tender to deliver and test the world’s first 5G-based network for automated rail operation
Member Logo Nokia has won a tender to test and deliver the world’s first standalone (SA) 5G system for automated rail operation in Hamburg, Germany...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Policy and Regulation
 
TRA UAE organizes a workshop on Shaping the Future and Innovation
The five-day workshop comes in implementation of TRA's Innovation Strategy, which aims to instill and foster the innovation culture in the corporate work environment and empower TRA's employees in shaping the future....
 
Austria publishes terms for multi-band 5G spectrum auction
Austria’s Regulatory Authority for Broadcasting and Telecoms (RTR) has published the conditions for the country’s ‘second 5G auction’, which is scheduled to take place in spring 2020...
 
North Africa
 
Nilesat-301 satellite to be built by Thales Alenia Space
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the Egyptian operator Nilesat to build the Nilesat-301 geostationary communications satellite...
 
3G, 4G and 5G Networks
 
LTE network in Belarus to start using 800MHz frequency range
The telecommunication infrastructure operator beCloud will start building cell towers operating in a new frequency range in January 2020...
 
KT launches 5G emergency video call service
South Korean telco KT and the National Fire Agency have launched emergency video call centres using 5G networks, they announced...
 
Deutsche Telekom expands commercial 5G service to the city of Hamburg
Deutsche Telekom has expanded its commercial 5G service to the city of Hamburg, after it launched it in Berlin, Munich, Cologne, Bonn, and Darmstadt in September...
 
Satellite & Internet
 
Movistar completes fiber migration in Copiapo
Movistar Chile has migrated its fixed line network in Copiapo, the capital of Atacama region, from copper to fiber technology...
 
Viasat lights up home satellite broadband in Mexico
Viasat has announced the availability of reliable, high-speed, high-quality internet service for residential customers in Mexico...
 
Global Telecom Update
 
Trikala to be Greece’s first ‘Giga City’
The City of Trikala and telecommunications company Vodafone presented the project for the first smart city, or “Giga City,” as they described the town in central Greece...
 
SentinelOne launches new cybersecurity research unit
US-based SentinelOne has announced the launch of SentinelLabs, a research division designed to identify new attack vectors and mitigate threats impacting businesses...
 
 
Middle East
 
Snapchat launches ‘Swipe Up to Call’ feature exclusively for Middle East users
Snapchat has launched ‘Swipe Up to Call’, a new feature exclusive to users in the Middle East, which will make it easier than ever before for customers to connect with businesses through the platform...
 
Etisalat empowers ‘Etisalat Metro station’ with 5G
Etisalat has announced that it is enabling 5G connectivity at the Etisalat Metro Station, becoming the first 5G-enabled metro in the Middle East and North Africa...
 
Microsoft launches SQL Server 2019 to support Saudi business sector
SQL server 2019 provides companies with advanced analyses of all data types, both structured and unstructured, by combining large data clusters with enhanced data virtualization...
 
Saudi ICT sector’s seven key avenues of growth
Saudi Arabia has embarked on a bold national-level change management program, driven by the significant growth already in motion in the ICT sector...
 
FSS and AFS partner to promote digital payments in the Middle East
Payments solutions providers FSS (Financial Software and Systems and Arab Financial Services (AFS) have entered into an agreement to bring omni-channel payment acceptance solutions to banks in the region...
 
South Asia
 
IIU, Huawei to build hardware installation camp
The International Islamic University (IIU) and Huawei Technologies Pakistan Limited have agreed to build a joint Hardware Installation Camp (HIC) at university for talent development programs in supporting Pakistan’s...
 
SLT successfully launches its new business solutions
Sri Lanka Telecom has launched new business solutions for hotels, restaurants, private hospitals, educational institutes, online clothing stores, real estates & FMCG companies...
 
Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
 
AMC Networks’ SVOD services pass 2 million subscribers
AMC Networks has announced that its four targeted subscription video on demand services – Acorn TV, Shudder, Sundance Now, and UMC (Urban Movie Channel) now exceed two million subscribers in. the US...
 
Comcast brings live TV and VOD to NuEyes visually impaired smart-glasses
Comcast has announced a new partnership with wearable tech startup NuEyes, which will bring the operator’s Xfinity Stream app to the NuEyes VR smart-glasses designed for visually impared users...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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