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October 13, 2022

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Zain awarded “Partner of the Year” by Westcon-Comstor for supporting SMEs

Zain, the leading digital service provider in Kuwait, was awarded “Partner of the Year – Small and Medium Business Cisco Kuwait” by Westcon-Comstor, the global distributor of business technology solutions. The award recognizes Zain’s excellence in further pushing the digital transformation ecosystem within the local startups sector by providing the most advanced world-class solutions to SMEs...

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Consumers want more transparency on how businesses handle their data, new Cisco survey shows

This year’s survey highlights the critical need for further transparency as consumers say their top priority is for organizations to be more transparent on how they use their personal data...

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Nokia to publish third-quarter and January-September 2022 financial report on 20 October 2022

Nokia will publish its third-quarter and January-September 2022 financial report on 20 October 2022 at approximately 8 a.m. Finnish time (EEST)...

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HUAWEI CONNECT 2022 in Dubai: Innovative infrastructure drives industrial digital transformation

More than 3,000 industry stakeholders gathered together at HUAWEI CONNECT Dubai, to discuss "Innovative Infrastructure to Unleash Digital". Representatives from Huawei and other organizations shared their latest...

Policy and Regulation

•	Croatian regulator invites applications for spectrum sale Croatia’s Regulatory Agency for Network Operations has invited applications for its multi-band spectrum auction which is scheduled to begin on 16 January...

South Asia

•	Number of mobile subscribers in Bangladesh declines Grameenphone lost 950,000 customers in August while Robi and Banglalink added 200,000 and 300,000 customers respectively...

•	Nepal Telecom begins telecom service in Bhume -6, East Rukum As the service commenced around the festive times, the locals have been delighted as they can conveniently establish communication on their handsets without venturing to nearby villages...

Satellite & Internet

•	Angola’s Angosat-2 satellite launched Russia launched its second mission in a three-day stretch sending a communications satellite aloft for the government of Angola...

•	CoreSite offers 100G metro inter-site Ethernet services The service is designed to enable businesses to integrate and securely scale their IT infrastructure by connecting network, applications, and data in the same market...

•	Hyperoptic announces FTTP subscription milestone Hyperoptic has celebrated its eleventh anniversary by announcing it has reached a subscription milestone, with it now having more than 250,000 active fixed broadband subscriptions on its books...

Global Telecom Update

•	UK national telecoms research lab opens in Solihull The new UK Telecommunications Lab is a research facility intended to bring together operators, suppliers and academics to brainstorm and testbed ideas related to mobile networks...

•	Airtel Africa buys spectrum in Tanzania for US$60.1 million Airtel Africa PLC said that it has bought additional spectrum in Tanzania to support network expansion for both mobile data and fixed wireless home broadband capability...

•	NuRAN signs US$75 million NaaS deal with MTN Ivory Coast NuRAN Wireless has announced an agreement for up to 1,000 sites with MTN Ivory Coast for the deployment of rural sites under the Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) business model in Ivory Coast...

Middle East

•	Orange Jordan receives Tier III Operational Sustainability Gold Certification Orange Jordan data center is now one of 75 data centers around the world awarded the operating sustainability certification and one of only 9 data centers in the Middle East and Africa to receive this certification...

•	Data analytics and AI set to drive fintech Data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) are the top technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution that are powering fintech solutions, found a Mastercard study on the state of fintech in the Middle East and Turkey...

•	du signs MoU with Masdar City to build 5G Centre of Excellence, deploy IoT technology The Smart City vision encompasses an integrated approach to champion disruption with scalable and phased implementation, and flexible frameworks and standards to achieve cost efficiency and agility...

•	Mazoon teams up with Omani group drone technology trials A key player in the Oman power sector, Mazoon is primarily undertaking regulated distribution and supply of electricity in Al Dakhiliya, South Al Sharqiya, North Al Sharqiya, South Batinah governorates and Suwaiq in North...

North Africa

•	Egypt’s fintech startup Telda secures US$20 million in seed funding Egyptian fintech startup Telda raised US$20 million in a seed funding round led by Global Founders Capital with participation from Silicon Valley’s Sequoia Capital and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	Poland’s Kanal Sportowy launches OTT platform The deployment has been based on Redge Media for Lifestyle, a complete video streaming solution tailored to video influencers looking for a hassle-free way to create a fully customisable, manageable video service for their...

•	Government of Sharjah launches ‘Virtual Transaction Centre - Metaverse’ at GITEX Global The project is spearheaded by Sharjah Department of Town Planning and Survey (SDTPS) and aims to optimise SDTPS’s functions, while also improving the quality of life for its customers...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Anatel orders Vivo to extend 4G coverage Anatel wants 70% of the 4G expansion work to take place in the underserved North-east region of the country...

•	Virgin Media O2 UK trials secure public and private 5G network O2 has completed the first trials of their 5G DRIVE project, which is a consortium that is part-funded by the Government and aims to develop a secure Radio Access Network (RAN) connection capability for integrating private...

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