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May 4, 2021

Eutelsat capacity selected by Global Eagle to increase its mobility capabilities over North America

Eutelsat Communications and Global Eagle have signed a multi-year contract for additional Ku transponders adding large amounts of capacity for Global Eagle’s aviation customers...

Turkish 5A satellite enters into orbit at 31° East

When the satellite is put into service, it will cover Turkey and Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Mid-West and South Africa as well as the Mediterranean, Aegean, and the Black Sea...

Member News

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stc leads MENA region in launching innovative end-to-end commercial 5G SA infrastructure

Kuwait Telecommunications Company – stc, a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers, enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced the successful commercialization...

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Unlock 5G potential across the Middle East: latest Arthur D. Little report

New 5G-based applications can help overhaul city infrastructure, overcome mounting sustainability barriers, and offer attractive propositions for residents and businesses...

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Huawei unveils CloudCampus 3.0 for a fully wireless, intelligent campus networks in the cloud era

Huawei Tech Investment Saudi Arabia Ltd conducted the Huawei Middle East IP Club Carnival 2021 and announced new IP products and solutions for customers across different sectors and ecosystems. The event, which was held...

Policy and Regulation

•	NCC is building broadband infrastructure for 4IR The Nigerian Communications Commission is working with licenced network operators to build resilient broadband infrastructure that the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) will ride on...

•	PTA extends support to Sri Lanka for mobile number portability The Sri Lankan regulator has planned to introduce MNP for mobile phone users in the country and intends to follow processes adopted by the PTA...

South Asia

•	Pakistan digital financial services provider unveils mobile app specifically for businesses The app notably aims to make digital payments more efficient and easy to use for bsuiness owners, company managers, and home businesses...

•	Initial testing of Nepal Telecom’s digital payment gateway kicks off Nepal Telecom and Rastriya Banijya Bank Limited have come together to form Nepal Digital Payments Company Limited, NDPC in short with an aim to contribute to a digital Nepal...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Logic launches LTE fixed-wireless broadband service The new 4G LTE service replaces a fixed-wireless network withdrawn in 2020 and provides download/upload speeds of 10Mbps/5Mbps for KYD65 (US$78) a month or 30Mbps/15Mbps (KY$105)...

•	4ka lights up 5G with Cerillion convergent charging system Cerillion announced that its Convergent Charging System (CCS) is powering the 5G rollout for SWAN Mobile, a rapidly developing telecommunications service provider in Slovakia...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	SVOD service Krimirausch launches in Germany Krimirausch offers more than 50 series and films at the start, both classics such as Derrick and newer productions...

•	Netherlands first stop for FilmBox as SPI International expands brand into Western Europe SPI International has launched its FilmBox brand in the Netherlands as part of a larger expansion into Western Europe...

Middle East

•	Dubai Chamber, TikTok join forces to help 1,000 businesses in the region expand digital reach Under the terms of the two-year agreement, participants will get access to a dedicated online educational portal that will offer training on digital marketing and advise businesses on how to get started on TikTok...

•	Saudi Arabia’s ADF selects Oracle Cloud Applications to scale operations Oracle has announced that the Agricultural Development Fund (ADF) of Saudi Arabia will automate its core finance, procurement and HR functions with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite...

•	GCC to spur Measa e-commerce market growth to US$148.5 billion by 2022 The e-commerce market in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (Measa) will grow to US$148.5 billion by 2022 with the Gulf region driving this surge with a more than treble jump in online sales, a new study has revealed...

North Africa

•	22 million properties have been registered online in Egypt since January 22 million properties have been registered since January under the national project of properties inventory that aims to count property wealth across the country and register it in an online database as well as modernise and...

Satellite & Internet

•	Turkish 5A satellite enters into orbit at 31° East When the satellite is put into service, it will cover Turkey and Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Mid-West and South Africa as well as the Mediterranean, Aegean, and the Black Sea...

•	NBN Co names next locations to be eligible for FTTN to FTTP upgrade Australia’s NBN Co has published a list of the latest towns and suburbs which will benefit from the fiber-to-the-premises rollout, with around 900,000 premises expected to gain access to gigabit-speed services by...

Global Telecom Update

•	Data centre provider announces continuing growth across Latin America ODATA has announced plans to speed up the expansion of its data center rollout in the region where it has been active since it began operations in 2015...

•	Verizon to sell Yahoo, AOL for US$5 billion to Apollo Wireless company Verizon will sell Verizon Media, which consists of the once-pioneering tech platforms, to Apollo Global Management in a US$5 billion deal...

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