Spanish operator Telefónica has signed another collaborative agreement, this time with Middle Eastern telco STC as they look to rustle up some treats in the cybersecurity, cloud, IoT and Big Data fields.
Saudi Telecom Company (stc) and Belgian carrier BICS say they have set up the first-ever intercontinental 5G Standalone roaming connection between two live networks in Europe and the Middle East.
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Some of the biggest telecoms operators in the Middle East have come together to form the industry’s latest OpenRAN alliance.
Vodafone has cancelled a longstanding plan to sell its stake in its Egyptian operation to Saudi Telecom Company (STC).
Saudi Telecom Company (STC) has inked a cooperation deal with Rakuten Mobile that will see it explore its options for OpenRAN and other forward-looking mobile technologies.
Nokia has concluded a productive trip to the Middle East with a couple of freshly-signed memoranda of understanding, inevitably covering 5G and IoT.
Chinese networking vendor ZTE has gone on a winter world tour, landing several big deals in EMEA and Latin America.
Kit vendor Nokia has teamed up with Saudi telco STC to test MulteFire unlicensed LTE technology and demonstrate it can play nice with wifi.
The Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is going to launch a new mobile operator called Jawwy, which will be positioned as a ‘disruptive’ brand and will use ItsOn’s cloud BSS/OSS platform.
Nokia Networks has claimed advancements in LTE-A network deployment by unveiling live network speeds and data transmission rates of up to 300 Mbps on Sonera’s LTE network in Helsinki. By utilising FDD/TDD technology it is claiming carrier aggregation of the 1800 and 2600 MHz frequency bands for the Finnish operator.
Kuwaiti mobile operator Viva on Monday introduced commercial LTE roaming services with neighbouring Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC), marking the first 4G LTE roaming agreement between Gulf operators.
Mobile operator groups serving the Middle East and Africa have agreed to cooperate on network infrastructure sharing initiatives in an effort to provide mobile broadband access to unserved rural communities in the region. The operators also intend to drive down the cost of mobile services for consumers across the regions.
Saudi Arabian operator STC has renewed its managed services contract with infrastructure vendor Nokia Solutions and Networks (NSN) which will see the Finnish firm continue to provide network planning and optimisation, network and service operations and hardware and software services for STC’s Al Jawal network in Saudi Arabia. The contract covers STC’s GSM, 3G and LTE networks that are within NSN’s footprint.
Asian operator group Axiata has announced the acquisition of a 95 per cent stake Indonesian operator Axis. Axiata’s own Indonesian subsidiary, PT XL Axiata (XL), has entered into a conditional sale and purchase agreement with the subsidiary of Saudi operator group STC.
STC, the Saudi Arabian carrier, has added anotherLTE coverage to another five cities across the Kingdom, taking the total up to 11. The cities of Makkah, Madinah, Abha, Khamis Mushayt, Dhahran now have access to LTE, in addition to the cities of Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Jubail, Al Khobar, Al Ahsa.
Following launches in Saudi from Mobily and STC, and in the UAE from Etisalat, Qatar’s QTel has launched its own LTE services and UAE’s Du has announced that it is working on an LTE service to launch before the end of the year.
Dr. Saad Al Khatani, Group CSO of Saudi Telecom Company (STC), believes smart pipes are the only way to effectively offset the high set-up and running costs of modern broadband networks, and maintain Quality of Service to the customer as new applications and services are added.
Saudi Arabian mobile operator Mobily has launched the first LTE service in the Middle East, but rival STC was hot on its heels, launching its own service a day later.
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