Ten years ago, in April 2008, renowned San Diego-based chipset maker Qualcomm Incorporated announced its expansion into the Middle East and Africa. The ambitious city of Dubai was chosen as Qualcomm’s regional hub, where an office was opened in Dubai Internet City (DIC) Free Trade Zone to serve the company’s business interests. Ten years on, Telecom Review reflects on Qualcomm’s role in influencing new technologies in the region.
Swedish telecoms firm Ericsson posted improved first quarter results as it presses a massive cost-saving drive that has prompted thousands of jobs cuts.
PCCW Global, the international operating division of HKT, Hong Kong's premier telecommunications service provider, and Colt Technology Services have further progressed their blockchain Proof of Concept (PoC). Additional members of the ITW Global Leaders' Forum (GLF) are also getting involved in the initiative.
MTN Nigeria and Huawei completed commercial deployment of the RuralStar 2.0 solution. The project provides low-cost long-distance voice and mobile broadband services for remote rural areas in Nigeria, helping to connect the unconnected. The voice and data traffic of new deployed RuralStar 2.0 sites exceed expectation, which reveals the enormous telecommunication demand in rural Nigeria.
The Arab ICT Organization is pleased to announce the membership of Huawei among its associate members. The official signature of the adhesion was celebrated on the occasion of the 14th edition of AICTO General Assembly held in Tunis, on the 12th of April 2018.
An official delegation led by Cameroon President Paul Biya visited Huawei's Beijing campus where they were received by the President of Huawei Northern Africa, Peng Song, who took them on a tour of Huawei's facilities.
Millennials are reshaping industries to match their expectations, and the telecom industry is no exception, Ericsson’s President of the Middle East and Africa, Rafiah Ibrahim, said at the Telecom Review Summit in Beirut on 13 April. Millennials are generally marked by an increased use and familiarity with communications, media, and digital technologies, and they don’t want to work the same way as previous generations.
ZTE Corporation, a major international provider of telecommunications, enterprise and consumer technology solutions for the mobile internet, reported a full-year revenue of RMB 108.82 billion in 2017, 7.5% higher than a year earlier, benefiting from continuous investments in telecommunications networks by global operators and the company's growth in consumer businesses and government-enterprise markets.
Finnish telecommunications vendor Nokia has endured a difficult Q1 following the official announcement of its financial results for the first quarter of 2018. However, despite a drop in its net sales and profitability, Nokia CEO, Rajeev Suri remains bullish.
Etisalat Misr (Etisalat Egypt) and Huawei have completed the world’s first verification of Huawei’s CloudAIR GL15MHz spectrum dynamic sharing solution on Etisalat Misr's 1800 MHz network in Cairo, Egypt. The solution enables spectrum dynamic sharing between GSM and LTE with unprecedented overlap between the two, which increases both LTE data rate and cell capacity available in the 1800 MHz spectrum allocation.
