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September 1, 2021

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Eutelsat’s EUTELSAT 172B selected by Lintasarta to support rural connectivity services in Indonesia

Lintasarta will be leveraging the unparalleled coverage of the EUTELSAT 172B satellite to fulfil the commitment to close the digital divide in the rural areas of Indonesia. This agreement highlights the integral role of satellite in providing a complete connectivity solution to end users...

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Orange and Etisalat establish peering point at SmartHub to expand its services

Etisalat and Orange have come together to establish an IPX peering point at Etisalat’s SmartHub PoP in UAE, improving its international wholesale arm’s reach across partners in the region and meeting the...

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Tech Mahindra launches a dedicated Google Cloud Business Unit to accelerate cloud adoption for enterprises globally

The new business unit will focus on developing industry-specific solutions on Google Cloud to help customers balance growth with innovation, enable operational scalability & ensure seamless user experience...

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Cisco and Expo 2020 Dubai mark over 1,500 days of collaboration

The two organisations have announced that Cisco’s network infrastructure will also be deployed at the Dubai Exhibition Centre – strategically located close to the heart of the Expo 2020 Dubai site...

Policy and Regulation

•	South African operators given until end-November to return temporary spectrum The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) has decided that temporary radio frequency spectrum assigned to telecoms licensees must be returned no later than 30 November 2021...

•	NCC to launch five-year strategic vision plan The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says it will launch a five-year strategic vision plan (SVP) to boost operations in the telecommunications sector...

Middle East

•	UAE launches ‘.abudhabi’ top level domain name The domain name represents the digital identity of the emirate in the virtual world, promoting it locally, regionally and internationally across the tourism, culture and economy sectors...

•	Edarat Group adopts IBM Cloud Satellite Edarat Group, a Data Centre and ICT Infrastructure firm in the Middle East, has selected IBM Cloud Satellite to enable its customers in Saudi Arabia to harness IBM Cloud services in hybrid cloud environments...

•	KNPC refines its digital transformation with VMware Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has taken its digital transformation to the next level with VMware...

South Asia

•	Subex extends strategic partnership with Robi to support their 5G ambitions Subex, a pioneer in enabling Digital Trust, announced that it has extended its partnership with Robi to upgrade its existing integrated Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management (iRAFM) system...

•	1,006 km of optical fiber laid out in Nepal Nepal has mobilized the Rural Telecommunications Development Fund to expand the broadband internet service across the country...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	DOCOMO and Far EasTone Telecommunications to collaborate on streaming multi-angle video dontent in Taiwan The initiative will help DOCOMO to verify the popularity and price points for Japanese multi-angle content in the Taiwanese market, which is part of the company's broader effort to distribute Japanese mobile video...

•	Polsat launches new VOD and streaming service Poland’s Polsat has launched a new VOD and streaming service named Polsat Box Go to replace its previous services ipla and Cyfrowy Polsat Go...

North Africa

•	Telecom Egypt connects fiber-optic cables to villages as part of ‘Decent Life’ initiative Telecom Egypt is connecting fibre-optic networks to about 1,413 villages in 52 towns in 20 governorates, in order to develop the information infrastructure and ensure the access of high-speed Internet services to the...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Vilicom to build Britain’s first private LTE network for Scottish off shore windfarm Scotland's offshore Moray East wind farm will showcase green power, open RAN and private LTE network...

•	Telekom reaches 85% of Germans with 5G With regards to its mobile network, Telekom’s 5G network now covers 85% of Germans via a network of 55,000 antennas, with population coverage set to exceed 90% by the end of this year...

Satellite & Internet

•	AXESS supports Arabsat’s C-band requirements AXESS Networks has been chosen by the Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) to provide connectivity and teleport services on the Appendix 30B C-band space segment on-board its Arabsat-5A satellite...

•	Chorus to triple speed of its most popular wholesale fiber plan New Zealand wholesale fixed-line provider Chorus has offered to triple the speed of its most popular fiber plan at no extra cost to broadband retailers, as its ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network rollout continues to track...

Global Telecom Update

•	Sharp growth in data usage in Nigeria Figures suggest that the country’s broadband penetration currently stands at 45.02 per cent, a huge leap from the 37.8 per cent recorded in 2019, much of this driven by mobile communications...

•	Wifi Calling is coming soon for Vodafone customers In September, Vodafone NZ will begin rolling out Wifi Calling to a selection of smartphones, allowing customers to make and receive calls and texts using the Wifi signal...

•	Telekom Srbija launches TS Ventures fund for high-tech startups The fund will target high-tech startups in a region where aside from Romania, where several new venture capital and seed funds have been launched recently the number of funds dedicated to startups is relatively low...

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