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December 12, 2024

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Ooredoo Kuwait holds inaugural board meeting under Dr. Hamad Al Naimi’s leadership, setting strategic goals for 2025

Ooredoo Kuwait has held its first board meeting under the leadership of Dr. Hamad Al-Naimi, newly appointed Vice Chairman, to review the company’s 2024 achievements and set the course for its 2025 strategy...

2024 WLAN Industry Summit and World WLAN Application Alliance (WAA) 2024 General Assembly held in Shenzhen, advancing innovation and global collaboration for WLAN development

Dr. Mustafa Aykut, Director of Programs and Public Policy at the SAMENA Telecommunications Council, contributed to the 2024 WLAN Industry Summit by engaging in discussions on international collaboration and industry advancements, reinforcing the event's global perspective...

Member News

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Omantel wins two awards at Effies Awards 2024 for Best Marketing Campaigns

Marking a new achievement, Omantel won two Awards at the Effies MENA Awards 2024, held recently in Dubai, attended by marketing and media experts from the region...

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Nokia building IP network to support AI workloads at Nscale’s new sustainable data center

Nokia has been selected by Nscale, the hyperscaler engineered for AI, to deliver an IP network solution to support AI workloads at Nscale’s new data center in Stavanger, Norway...

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GlobalData's NFVI Competitiveness Report: Huawei earns full scores in all dimensions

Huawei's Telco Converged Cloud (TCC) has been crowned an industry leader in the 2024 Telco Cloud Infrastructure report by GlobalData, excelling across all dimensions with innovative dual-engine architecture, seamless...

Recent Developments

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Achieving Digital Maturity and Growth in a Sustainable Digital Ecosystem Requires Innovation with 5G and Transitioning to IPV6, Says SAMENA Council

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University of Dubai and MEA-Comm UAE launch first regional 5G testbed to accelerate Industry Revolution 4.0 in the UAE and MEA region

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stc Bahrain welcomes Address Beach Resort Bahrain Hotel to the “Trees for Life” family

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Omantel joins the nation in celebrating the historic launch of Duqm-1, Oman's First Scientific Rocket

Policy and Regulation

•	CST announces the winners of the Tech Innovation Challenge 2024 The Challenge was launched in collaboration with the National Technology Development Program (NTDP), Huawei and the Artificial Intelligence Governance Association...

•	Ofcom consults on Media Act implementation UK media regulator Ofcom is publishing two consultations as it begins to implement new laws under the Media Act 2024...

South Asia

•	Telecom operators in Pakistan outline key conditions for successful 5G rollout Telecom operators in Pakistan, in collaboration with the PTA and consultancy firm NERA, are emphasizing the need for policy reforms, including reduced taxes, balanced spectrum allocation, and phased implementation, to ensure...

North Africa

•	Africa50 invests in Raya Data Centre to boost Egypt’s digital economy and green infrastructure The new equity funding will enable RDC to expand its capacity sustainably and leverage Africa50’s expertise and networks in the data centre sector across the African continent...

3G, 4G and 5G Networks

•	Macau will switch off 3G in 2025 In its announcement, the government encouraged the country's mobile operators to prepare for the cessation of 3G network operations...

•	Vodafone Idea selects Tejas Networks to scale its backhaul capacity for 4G and 5G rollouts Tejas Networks announced that it has entered into a three - year contract with Vodafone Idea Limited, to supply its industry-leading TJ1400 and TJ1600 packet and optical transmission products to augment Vodafone Idea's...

Global Telecom Update

•	Spark New Zealand, Ipsotek introduce advanced AI vision platform This partnership combines Spark's digital infrastructure expertise with Ipsotek's more than twenty years of AI Computer Vision experience, bringing enterprise-grade video analytics capabilities to New Zealand...

•	Ransomware will evolve beyond its current model in 2025: Veeam These are the technological predictions from Veeam’s senior global and regional executives, who share their views on next year’s top technology trends in the Data Resilience space...

•	Romanian operators hit voice coverage targets The campaign to measure the national signal coverage for mobile voice services took place between April and November 2024...

Middle East

•	Viasat and Skylo successfully demonstrate direct-to-device satellite connectivity in the UAE The demonstration involved a commercial Android smartphone equipped for non-terrestrial network (NTN) connectivity, using an over-the-top messaging app...

•	National CSR Fund launches MAJRA Impact Stream, digital gateway for sustainable impact The launch of MAJRA Impact Stream, a digital gateway driving innovative CSR initiatives aligned with ESG metrics, strengthens UAE's leadership in sustainable development by fostering collaboration, transparency, and...

•	Starlink signs MOU with Ministry of Labor to empower the Qatari workforce Aligned with Qatar's National Vision 2030, the agreement underscores Starlink's mission to contribute to the development of a highly skilled and sustainable national workforce...

Content & Immersive Technologies

•	New Amazon SageMaker AI Innovations Reimagine How Customers Build and Scale Generative AI and Machine Learning Models Three new Amazon SageMaker HyperPod capabilities, and the addition of popular AI applications from AWS Partners directly in SageMaker, help customers remove undifferentiated heavy lifting across the AI development lifecycle,...

•	Mezzo extends into China with Tencent Video In a statement Thema, part of Canal+, said the agreement marked a “new milestone in THEMA footprint and in Asia as well as in Mezzo audiences reach in the region”...

•	Verizon leverages network slicing for enhanced video calling Verizon has announced the launch of Enhanced Video Calling powered by network slicing, currently available on iPhone...

Satellite & Internet

•	Starlink to boost Cape Verde's tech infrastructure with launch Starlink, the satellite Internet service by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has launched in Cape Verde, marking a significant step in its African expansion strategy...

•	Cirion expands its fiber optic network in Mexico This expansion aims to provide state-of-the-art infrastructure to the company’s customers, who require dedicated connectivity, IT infrastructure, and a cloud presence in the region...

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