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5G MENA 2018 which is recognized as being one of the most important telecommunication events on the calendar got underway at the Jumeriah Beach Hotel, Dubai yesterday morning.
With a wide geographical footprint spanning over 11 countries in the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, IPT PowerTech pursued its strategic expansion plan in the Middle East region through the acquisition of its latest affiliate "Shabakkat KSA" in October 2017, delivering the most versatile and complicated projects in KSA and neighboring countries. Our journey has been a rapid evolution to becoming a regional power system integrator with reach to 50 countries and more than 4,000 experts on boards, and one of the few companies in the region, if not the only one, to combine product R&D to our assembly facilities in Romania and Lebanon.
Ride-hailing services Uber and Careem will be allowed to continue operations in Egypt after a court ruled on April 7 that a previous judicial decision to suspend the licenses of the companies should not be applied, according to judicial sources reported by Reuters.
The UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) recently received a delegation from the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority in the Kingdom of Bahrain, aimed at reviewing the most prominent practices and strategies related to the management of regulatory and licensing affairs, finance, spectrum, human resources, and customer happiness.
Facebook is facing scrutiny after it was revealed in March that in 2014 a London-based political consulting firm had harvested the data of Facebook users to profile individuals and direct political campaigns and biased content to users, trying to influence their political opinion. Facebook is now reeling to win back the trust of its users, making privacy tools easier to find and suspending the accounts of abusers.
The UAE's Minister of Infrastructure Development and Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence recently met to explore the application of artificial intelligence technology in the federal roads and their field tour to the Kalba Ring Road development project, which will contribute to a reduction of 54 percent in project duration, 37 percent in fuel consumption, 80 percent in manpower dependence and 40 percent in equipment and manpower needed.
Popular crypto-currency bitcoin, famous for its fluctuations in value, has made some of its early investors into millionaires. But an expert speaking at the recent World Government Summit in Dubai warned that consumers need to look after themselves when it comes to digital currency, as they cannot rely on regulation to protect them from market volatility or cybercrime.
Fifth generation (5G) networks will soon be a reality in the Middle East following the successful completion of the first implementable Release 15 5G New Radio (NR) specifications published in December 2017 at the 3GPP TSG RAN Plenary Meeting in Lisbon, Portugal. The announcement set the stage for the global mobile industry to start full-scale development of 5G NR for large-scale trials and commercial deployments as early as in 2019.
The impact of economic reforms and new regulations introduced by the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) in Saudi Arabia could negatively impact the kingdom's telecom sector, says a report by NCB Capital, the investment arm of Saudi lender NCB. The net income of Saudi Arabia's telecom sector is expected to decline 1.4 percent in 2018 to SAR 9.3 billion driven by lower revenues.
