Telecom Review continues its series of virtual panels, this time exploring the ongoing hardships of the Telecom and ICT sectors in Lebanon — the continuing implications for customers and the challenges for businesses — in the panel entitled “The Telecom Sector in Lebanon: From Pioneering to Collapse” on April 19th at 10:30 a.m. Beirut time.
The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has announced transformation projects under the auspices of the "We the UAE 2031" vision, which constitutes a new envisioning and execution of a national action plan through which the UAE will continue its development journey and enter the first decade of the next fifty years.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) granted a new license to Oman Data Park (ODP) to provide voice or video telecommunication services over Internet protocol (VoIP). This will expand the base of services provided via Internet Protocol in the Sultanate of Oman.
As a logical reaction to the potentially powerful capacity of artificial intelligence tools such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT to have a negative impact on societies and businesses, US regulators have taken up the task of establishing new rules governing such technologies.
The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) has brought pioneering innovation to its digital services by adopting the power of artificial intelligence.
Twitter has changed markedly ever since it fell into the hands of billionaire Elon Musk. Despite previously stating that the platform will not “amplify or recommend government accounts” that limit access to free information and are engaged in conflict, the Russian government’s accounts of the Kremlin, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and other ministries began to appear once again in Twitter’s recommendation and search feeds.
If you are a frequent traveler who doesn’t pay that much attention when plugging your device into public charging stations, now might be the time to reconsider your actions. Authorities have recently alerted citizens to the cyber risks they face with regards to public charging.
Dubbed “Operation Cookie Monster,” a global police investigation has shut down Genesis Market, one of the world's largest online marketplaces, long believed to be a platform where cybercriminals can buy stolen identities and passwords.
New plans and investments are in place to boost the UK's digital connectivity and put the country at the forefront of future telecom technologies.
Lebanon's telecom sector crisis is worsening as the quality of Internet services in most regions has deteriorated, coupled with an electricity crisis, the downturn of the central banks and the collapse of the lira exchange rate. Now, the telecommunications sector, which has been a steady source of revenue and profits, is also struggling and faces the absence of favorable solutions as well as heavy annual losses for the Lebanese State and the Ministry of Communications.
