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Samena Trends Exclusively for Samena Telecommunications Council's Members Building Digital Economies Volume 09, September, 2018 A SAMENA Telecommunications Council Newsletter www.samenacouncil.org SAMENA TRENDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAMENA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL'S MEMBERS BUILDING DIGITAL ECONOMIES Featured UAE All Ready for 5G Eng. Saleh Al Abdooli Chief Executive Officer, Etisalat Group THIS MONTH SATELLITE AND TERRESTRIAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS CONVERGENCE 21x29.7.pdf 1 2018/9/20 15:36:06 Huawei Middle East 3rd 8 3 9 3 Innovation Day 2018 5 Innovate for a Digital Middle East 8 4 October 15, 2018 | Dubai | UAE 4 3 C M Y CM MY CY CMY K #HID18 It is with great pleasure that we invite you to attend the third annual Huawei Middle East Innovation Day – “Innovate for a Digital Middle East”– Date & Time: 09:00-17:00, Monday, October 15, 2018 (GITEX Day 2) Location: Sheikh Maktoum Hall, Dubai World Trade Centre VOLUME 09, SEPTEMBER, 2018 Contributing Editors Contributions Subscriptions Izhar Ahmad Analysys Mason [email protected] SAMENA Javaid Akhtar Malik Etisalat Nokia Advertising TRENDS Orange [email protected] Editor-in-Chief Publisher SAMENA TRENDS Bocar A. BA SAMENA Telecommunications [email protected] Council Tel: +971.4.364.2700 CONTENTS 04 EDITORIAL FEATURED 17 REGIONAL & MEMBERS UPDATES Members News Regional News 58 SATELLITE UPDATES Satellite News 61 WHOLESALE UPDATES Wholesale News 05 UAE All Ready for 5G 13 SAMENA Council 63 TECHNOLOGY UPDATES The SAMENA TRENDS newsletter is wholly Technology News Activity owned and operated by The SAMENA Telecommunications Council (SAMENA 66 Council). Information in the newsletter is not REGULATORY & POLICY UPDATES intended as professional services advice, and Regulatory News SAMENA Council disclaims any liability for use of specific information or results thereof. ARTICLES Articles and information contained in this publication are the copyright of SAMENA Telecommunications Council, (unless otherwise noted, described or stated) and cannot be reproduced, copied or printed in any form without the express written permission of the publisher. The SAMENA Council does not necessari- 46 56 ly endorse, support, sanction, encourage, verify or agree with the content, comments, Nokia NetGuard Endpoint Security In-flight Connectivity Will be the opinions or statements made in The SAME- is for Fixed, Mobile and IoT Devices Main Driver of Demand for NA TRENDS by any entity or entities. Infor- Protecting Billions of Subscribers in High-data-rate Satellite Trunking mation, products and services offered, sold or placed in the newsletter by other than The the Middle East and Worldwide by 2025 SAMENA Council belong to the respective en- tity or entities and are not representative of The SAMENA Council. The SAMENA Council hereby expressly disclaims any and all war- ranties, expressed and implied, including but not limited to any warranties of accura- cy, reliability, merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose by any entity or entities offering information, products and services in this newsletter. The user agrees that The SAMENA Council is not responsible, and shall have no liability to such user, with respect to any information, product or service offered by any entity or entities in this newsletter. The SAMENA Council’s only liability in the event of errors shall be the correction or removal of the erroneous information after verification. CONTENTS© 2018 - All rights reserved. SAMENA TRENDS is a trademark of SAMENA Telecommunications Council. EDITORIAL SAMENA TRENDS Satellite and Terrestrial Communication Systems Convergence The on-going development of 5th Generation services. Excessive or inefficient signaling has communication networks may provide a good been among the impediments for adopting new or, an inevitable opportunity, for the integration digital services, and 5G systems will improve of satellites with terrestrial networks. It upon this issue; and could be facilitated with certainly provides food for thought that working selected, integrated satellite capability. closely with the terrestrial sector in areas of mutual interest, such as interoperability, One of the key drivers of 5G is the emergence network orchestration, spectrum use, coverage of IoT and the vision of billions of objects being extension, so on and so forth, may be required connected to the Internet. This, in turn, is one for achieving true digital transformation and of the key enablers of the smart environment development of the digital economy. and smart connectedness, which is so central to the notion of building smart cities. For 5G Future systems will need to embody to be successful and to deliver is intended and Bocar A. BA connections to billions of objects or “things”, timely impact, the implication is clear: there Chief Executive Officer & Board which raises new challenges. Visions for needs to be an ability to handle large quantities Member 5G now exist across all regions of the world of data and provide access to a large number SAMENA Telecommunications and both research and harmonization efforts of connected users and devices. To this effect, Council are ongoing towards new standards and it is natural to predict the impact of satellites developing the 5G ecosystem. Building the on providing wider coverage to complement 5G ecosystem requires the implementation of and to extend the dense terrestrial cells, dense networks of small cells operating in the which is in line with the ubiquitous coverage millimeter wave bands, which are adaptable targeted by 5G networks. and software controlled. Along with this satellite play may also find its essential place, Many arguments could be presented to especially with respect to the need for extended support integration of terrestrial networks technology coverage, distribution of digital with satellite; one of which, for example, could content, improving network resilience and be improving the quality of digital experience robustness, utilization of spectrum resources through intelligent traffic routing with regard to more efficiently, among other features. video delivery and transmission. Or, as another example, offloading traffic from the terrestrial The underlying objectives that point to potential system to satellite in order to save terrestrial integration, or convergence, of terrestrial and spectrum. satellite systems, are driven by industry- wide expectations of a thousand-fold data Thus, in view of the plethora of digital services requirement over the next two years, especially that next-generation networks will support, due to the demand for video content. However, and to save and efficiently utilize spectrum delivering on many of these expectations resources, we may exert ourselves toward requires spectrum resources - which, per convergence between between 5G and satellite common knowledge, are very limited, and even technologies. However, this requires aligning techniques such as spectrum aggregation private sector priorities and public sector or spectrum sharing may not sufficiently policy visions. address the actual issue. This is where the concept of densification emerges, whereby a SAMENA Council’s terrestrial and satellite given area is designed to experience spectrum members need to bring this matter under efficiency through a heterogeneous network discussion, and we look forward to supporting where spectrum can be dynamically adapted their knowledge-creation and collaboration according to user demand and signaling building needs. requirements, to be able to adopt new digital 4 SEPTEMBER 2018 FEATURED SAMENA TRENDS UAE All Ready for 5G The year 2018 has seen the Middle East’s telecommunications economic development will meet reality. As fifth-generation business heavily focus on 5G development and trials, on network technologies surface visibly in the communications optimizing business processes, innovating in terms of availability scene, three key factors are expected to further catalyse the of new digital services, continuing with customer-experience growth of the telecoms industry: persisting low penetration management strategies developed over the past two years, levels in the fast-growing markets of Asia and Africa; young improving quality of service, attaining infrastructure agility and populations ready for and expecting more digital services; and optimization including through SDN and NFV technologies, the well-recognized power of the telecom sector to propel socio- and dealing with the over-the-top (OTT) situation, which has economic development and move entire communities to enjoy presented the industry with both challenges and opportunities. the benefits of the latest ICT technologies. These trends have also been driven by regulatory shifts taking place under the “digital transformation” visions toward creating The Middle East’s mobile market, led by the likes of Etisalat, level-playing fields for all digital service providers. which first started to develop 5G in early-20141, is indeed ripe with opportunities for investment and new digital services, The telecom industry has now reached a point where its role primarily due to its large young and tech-savvy populations and is that of an enabler of growth and to help set the agenda for increasingly progressive outlook as regional regulatory bodies human progress and development by opening doors to the pursue the path to digital transformation. digital economy. With the emergence of 5G, these doors of digital 1 Etisalat and Huawei’s 5G development of 5G mobile broadband first reported in Khaleej Times and Arab Times on March 2, 2014 5 SEPTEMBER 2018 FEATURED SAMENA
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