TP-Link Technologies Co Ltd, a global provider of SOHO, SMB networking products and wireless LAN solutions, has announced that it has signed a distribution agreement with Ethos Technologies for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Oman.

In terms of the agreement, Ethos Technologies will supply channel partners in the UAE and Oman with TP-Link’s entire SMB product range and services.

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Average LTE mobile data performance in Bahrain rose to 23.4 megabytes per second (Mbps) during the second quarter (Q2) of the year, up from 16.6 Mbps averages recorded in Q1, said the kingdom’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).

“We noticed an overall performance drop of nearly 26 per cent between Q4 of 2016 and the first quarter of this year and are glad to see that data performance has bounced back in the second quarter,” said Sheikh Ahmed Bin Isa bin Duaij Al Khalifa, TRA’s"...

Telecom customers in Bahrain are an unhappy lot. For the past few months, several customers are complaining that they are surprised with higher call rates and pathetic data quality.

Consumers here say that telecom operators are silently replacing many of their low cost plans with pricier options.

“The low cost plans were either scrapped entirely or replaced with"...

(ME NewsWire)-- World licensing leader MPEG LA, LLC announced today a call for patents essential to ATSC 3.0 standards in order to facilitate, for the convenience of the market, creation of a joint license to the intellectual property of leading ATSC 3.0 developers on which those standards are based.*

ATSC 3.0 is a set of next generation TV standards offering mobile television; enhanced personalization"...

In her free time Muna Al Hashemi likes to play chess. It’s the perfect hobby for someone who is always trying to outmaneuver the competition.

Not incidentally, that’s one of Al Hashemi’s primary objectives as CEO of Batelco Bahrain. She’s in charge of domestic operations for the telecom’s parent company, Batelco Group, at a time when the telecommunications industry in Bahrain is being reshaped by new technology—and"...

Bahrain’s Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has clarified that it has not issued any directions with regard to mobile package pricing in the kingdom.

“Due to the volume of enquiries regarding mobile packages, the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority would like to clarify that any changes in retail services in the mobile market are purely a commercial decision made by mobile providers due to competition among them and that"...

(ME NewsWire)-- SAGEMCOM STRENGTHENS ITS POSITIONS ON THE MULTI-ENERGY MARKET, BY ACQUIRING METER ITALIA S.P.A, LEADER IN GAS METERING IN ITALY.

As of July 27, 2017, Sagemcom becomes a 100% shareholder of Meter Italia S.p.A through its subsidiary Sagemcom Energy & Telecom SAS. Meter Italia joins the Sagemcom group and becomes Sagemcom Italia S.p.A.

This"...

(ME NewsWire)-- Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., also known as Foxconn, and Rockwell Automation announced today that they are collaborating to implement Connected Enterprise and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) concepts for smart manufacturing in Foxconn's new U.S. facilities.

The companies will also collaborate to develop and apply Smart Manufacturing solutions at Foxconn's global electronics"...

Batelco, Bahrain’s leading digital solutions provider and AFS, the region’s leading payment services provider, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to roll out a modern mobile wallet solution in Bahrain.

AFS Chairman Sael Al-Waary and Batelco Bahrain CEO Muna Al-Hashemi, signed the MoU at Batelco headquarters in Hamala.

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Service providers in Bahrain have begun implementing provisions of the SIM-card enabled telecommunications services registration regulation issued in December 2015.

This follows the expiration of the deadline specified by TRA for the operators to prepare and implement the provisions related to the registration and verification of user data and identity, including the implementation of the biometric verification process to verify the identity of"...