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September 22, 2021

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Huawei releases the Intelligent World 2030 Report to explore trends in the next decade

Huawei, along with industry partners, held the Intelligent World 2030 Forum. David Wang, Executive Director and President of ICT Products & Solutions of Huawei, released the Intelligent World 2030 report with a keynote speech on Exploring the Intelligent World 2030...

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stc and Dawiyat Integrated, signed a partnership agreement to cooperate in providing Internet of Things, digital infrastructure, and services to business customers in the Kingdom.

stc and Dawiyat Integrated Telecommunications and Information Technology Company, fully owned subsidiary company of Saudi Electricity Company (SEC), will collaborate to further develop the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem...

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FirstNet cell site launches in Fillmore County, Minn. to support public safety

irst responders in southeastern Minnesota are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet® network expansion currently underway by AT&T...

Policy and Regulation

•	Accreditation programme for IT service providers starts in Oman The Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology (MTCIT) has released the second batch of information technology service standards under the accreditation programme for information technology service...

•	FCC: 33 applicants qualified to bid in Auction 110 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has confirmed that a total of 33 applicants have qualified to bid in next month’s Auction 110 spectrum sale...

Middle East

•	Data-as-a-service model picking up pace in UAE, Saudi Fifty-four percent of businesses in the UAE and Saudi Arabia are looking to move to a data-as-a-service model and 55 percent are planning to look deeper into the performance stack to rearchitect how they process and use...

•	BIOS Middle East expands its cloud footprint to Oman The new cloud footprint in Muscat complements existing cloud footprints already available in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh and Jeddah...

•	The CRA and Huawei conclude 'Seeds for the future' program 2021 to develop elite ICT talents in Qatar A total of 34 students from Qatar University, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, and Community College of Qatar have successfully completed the program this year...

North Africa

•	Orange Egypt gets awarded as the Fastest Mobile Data Network in Egypt by Ookla’s Speedtest Orange Egypt has been awarded by Speedtest Application as the fastest mobile data network in Egypt after achieving the highest download and upload online speeds with a speed score of 25.59, with an average download speed of...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	Viaplay to launch in the UK, Germany and Canada The Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group)-owned streamer will be rolled into the UK in the second half of 2022 followed by expansion into Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland during 2023...

•	Alchimie inks deals with Orange, Amazon Prime Video and Movista The OTT SVOD platform Alchimie has signed new distribution deals with Orange, Amazon Prime Video and the Spanish platform Movistar...

South Asia

•	Pakistan IT exports surged by 46% in July-August 2021 The impressive growth in IT exports has been observed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, which grew the demand for automation and IT services all over the world...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	beCloud, A1 launch LTE-800 services in rural Vitebsk; MTS mirrors move Belarusian infrastructure operator beCloud and mobile services provider A1 Belarus have collaborated to expand coverage of 4G LTE in the Vitebsk region by ‘almost seven times’, blanketing more than 5,200...

•	Vivo, Nokia launch 5G tests in Rio de Janeiro Brazilian carrier Vivo has announced the start of 5G tests in the millimeter-wave (mmWave) of 26 GHz band in partnership with Finnish vendor Nokia...

Satellite & Internet

•	Myriota taps Spire Global for global satellite expansion Spire’s constellation of low-earth orbit nanosatellites features software-defined radio (SDR) technology, enabling partners to test, deploy, operate, and scale custom applications...

•	Fiberklaar begins FTTH network build in Geel Fiberklaar, the joint venture between Belgian full-service telecoms operator Proximus and Sweden’s EQT Infrastructure, has officially begun construction of its FTTH network in the municipality of Geel...

Global Telecom Update

•	MAHB partners Maxis for co-creation of Malaysia's first 5G Digital Airport Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) has entered into a strategic partnership with Maxis Bhd to co-develop a digital transformation road map for Smart Airport operations...

•	STT GDC Thailand opens hyperscale data centre in Bangkok STT Bangkok 1 is the first of two buildings in the STT Bangkok Data Centre Campus, which is strategically located at Hua Mak, one of Bangkok's business districts...

•	Masan takes over Mobicast to venture into telecom sector MVNOs like Mobicast collaborate with traditional Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to provide telecom services to consumers using their radio spectrum-based transmission services and related wireless network infrastructure...

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