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SAMENA TRENDS-(Nov 2015).Indd Volume 06 _ Issue 11 _ Nov 2015 SAMENA TRENDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAMENA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL'S MEMBERS BUILDING DIGITAL ECONOMIES A SAMENA Telecommunications Council Newsletter Articles Cloud Computing Provides Foundation to Fight Mobile Fraud in MEA Page 47 Pay-TV providers in MEA and middle-income Asia can learn from Apple... Exclusive Interview Page 55 Dr. Khaled H. Biyari Cloud gaming is gaining Group CEO traction in 2015: operators need to plan their market STC entry carefully Page 04 Page 57 Raising demand for mobile content and cloud services and the way forward for the telecom industry stakeholders www.samenacouncil.org SAMENA CONTENTS VOLUME _ 06 _ISSUE _ 11_NOV 2015 TRENDS The SAMENA TRENDS newsletter is wholly REGIONAL & MEMBERS owned and operated by The SAMENA UPDATES Telecommunications Council FZ, LLC 09. Members news (SAMENA Council). Information in the newsletter is not intended as professional services advice, and SAMENA Council 16. Regional news disclaims any liability for use of specific information or results thereof. Articles REGULATORY & POLICY and information contained in this publication are the copyright of SAMENA UPDATES 19. Regulatory news Telecommunications Council, (unless otherwise noted, described or stated) and cannot be reproduced, copied or 25. A snapshot of regulatory activities in printed in any form without the express SAMENA region written permission of the publisher. 32. Regulatory activities beyond the The SAMENA Council does not necessar- SAMENA region ily endorse, support, sanction, encour- age, verify or agree with the content, comments, opinions or statements made in The SAMENA TRENDS by any entity WHOLESALE UPDATES or entities. Information, products and 44. Wholesale news services offered, sold or placed in the newsletter by other than The SAMENA Council belong to the respective entity TECHNOLOGY UPDATES or entities and are not representative 47. Cloud Computing Provides of The SAMENA Council. The SAMENA EDITORIAL Foundation to Fight Mobile Fraud in Council hereby expressly disclaims any 03. MEA and all warranties, expressed and im- plied, including but not limited to any 49. Technology news warranties of accuracy, reliability, mer- chantability or fitness for a particular 55. Pay-TV providers in MEA and middle- purpose by any entity or entities offer- income Asia can learn from Apple, ing information, products and services in this newsletter. The user agrees that The REGIONAL Astro on the Go and Shahid.net SAMENA Council is not responsible, and shall have no liability to such user, with PERFORMANCE 57. Cloud gaming is gaining traction in respect to any information, product or 2015: operators need to plan their service offered by any entity or entities 07. Cloud Services Market and market entry carefully in this newsletter. The SAMENA Coun- cil’s only liability in the event of errors Content Delivery Trends shall be the correction or removal of the SATELLITE UPDATES erroneous information after verification. 59. Satellite news Editor-in-Chief Bocar A. BA Contributing Editors Izhar Ahmad Javaid Akhtar Malik 04. Contributing Members Analysys Mason Syniverse EXCLUSIVE Publisher INTERVIEW SAMENA Telecommunications Council Dr. Khaled H. Biyari Group CEO Subscriptions STC [email protected] Advertising [email protected] Legal Issues or Concerns [email protected] SAMENA TRENDS [email protected] Tel: +971.4.364.2700 © 2015 - All rights reserved. SAMENA TRENDS is a trademark of SAMENA Telecommunications Council. EDITORIAL SAMENA TRENDS _ NOV 2015 Raising demand for mobile content and cloud services and the way forward for the telecom industry stakeholders Two of the most important new business service Telecom operators are in an ideal position to drive areas that telecommunications operators need to cloud-based service adoption. accelerate their implementation efforts on, include cloud services and mobile content delivery. There Both cloud security and cloud-based security is much recognizable revenue and partnership services for protecting business assets have potential that lies in these two areas, and there undergone evolution. This has greatly reduced should be no more delays to promoting core security concerns that once impeded adoption of capability and network capacity in providing these cloud services. services among businesses and end customers. Moving forward, it is highly probable that content The “Smart City” concept, which is under much delivery, in its own right, will also impact adoption discussion in many markets while being under of cloud services. implementation in some, is partly founded on the need for building up information technology The increase in mobile devices clearly means more infrastructure whereby targeted solutions and need for mobile content and equally more need useful information, relevant to the needs and daily for making Web and multimedia content more lives of citizens, are delivered in the most robust and accessible on mobile devices. Alongside cloud seamless ways possible. services, here too telecom operators need to take a lead in being able to deliver targeted content, Moreover, recognizing that ICTs and intelligent for example, by analyzing users’ “big data”. Such digital applications are gradually becoming integral a leadership role is even more warranted after to the development, growth, and sustainability recognizing that operators have already invested of industries and economic sectors, the role of and are continuing to invest in mobile content small and medium-sized enterprises has become delivery network (CDN) technologies, thus further ever more visible. The same also applies to state- optimizing performance of end-user mobile devices. owned enterprises and government bodies that These efforts to help improve quality of customer have defined, or are in the process of defining, experience, deliver HD video content, deliver clear digital development strategies and thus are encrypted content, and ensure better delivery of in search of finding new ways to align themselves latency-sensitive content for mobile consumption, with global technology deployment and digital need to translate into sizeable investment returns. accessibility norms. This makes marketability and visibility of operators’ services to target customers ever more essential. In being able to fulfill digital needs of all of the aforementioned enterprises, cloud-based services Fortunately, within the SAMENA Council’s need to be adopted. Allowing businesses and community of software and technology providers end customers to conduct e-commerce and other and telecom operators, the need to emphasize upon businesses activities over private networks, cloud- both mobile content and cloud-based services, based services can effectively meet on-demand making such services more visible to regional target needs for software, systems, peripheral resources, customers, ranks among key business priorities. hosting, and data storage, thus shifting the focus from developing infrastructure and support services to conducting real business. Yours truly, Bocar A. BA Chief Executive Officer SAMENA Telecommunications Council page_3 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SAMENA TRENDS _ NOV 2015 Dr. Biyari was appointed as Group CEO of STC in April 2015. Before his appointment as CEO, he served as the Senior Vice President for Technology and Operations at STC. He is also the Chairman of STC Advanced Solutions, Vice Chairman of STC VIVA Kuwait, Vice Chairman of OTL, and a Board member Dr. Khaled H. Biyari of both Turk Telecom and Avea. Prior to joining STC, he served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager at Advanced Electronics Company (AEC). Group CEO From 1990 until 1995, Dr. Biyari was a Professor of Communication Systems at the Electrical Engineering Department at King Fahad University of Petroleum STC & Minerals (KFUPM). Professionally, Dr. Biyari is an active member of a number of professional organizations and has lectured and published papers on Communication and Information systems. He has also lectured on numerous occasions on Technology Management, Innovation, as well as ICT industry-related issues. He was twice-elected Chairman of the IEEE Saudi Section. Dr. Biyari also served as a member of the Committee responsible for developing the Long Term National Plan for Electronics Industry in the Kingdom. He was Yours truly, also a member of KFUPM Executive Committee responsible for KFUPM’s long- Bocar A. BA term strategic plan. In 2009, he was elected by the Council of Ministers to Chief Executive Officer the BoD of the Electricity and Cogeneration Regulatory Authority (ECRA) in SAMENA Telecommunications Council Saudi Arabia. Dr. Biyari obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA in 1990 and his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from KFUPM in 1983 and 1985, respectively. page_4 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW SAMENA TRENDS _ NOV 2015 Q. How do you view industry, one with some challenges Q. What direct the current state of the but also tremendous opportunities. role must an operator 2. What steps is STC now taking to digital ecosystem and how decisively raise demand for cloud voluntarily exercise to raise is STC redefining its roles services, and has security aspects of demand for cloud service and business objectives in the cloud been the biggest reason adoption, and which it? for its slow adoption thus far? market segments are and A. The digital ecosystem is Actually, the demand we see in the will remain the easiest
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