Facebook and Instagram may be shut down across Europe, parent company Meta has said. The issue comes down to European data regulations that prevent Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, from transferring, storing and processing Europeans’ data on US-based servers.

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The telecommunications regulatory authority of the sultanate of Oman (TRA) and Ookla are engaging in a collaborative arrangement as part of TRA’s aim to leverage the latest technologies and up-to-date insights for understanding mobile and fixed broadband performance across Oman.

Read more: TRA set to drive network improvement in Oman with Ookla’s solutions

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are widely used in IT and telecom as the need for a secure exposure platform arises to make the development easier, brings agility to the creation of services, and hides complexity. This makes APIs an obvious choice for providers to implement over-restrictive and expensive integration techniques.

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The Telecommunications and Digital Government Regulatory Authority (TDRA) issued the UAE Digital Transformation Enablers Report. The report includes the milestones of the digital transformation process in the UAE since its establishment. The report also highlights briefly TDRA’s role in empowering government entities and society throughout the process of digital transformation. This role is consistent with TDRA’s mandate to work on two parallel and integrated tracks, which are to regulate and enable the ICT sector on the one hand, and digital transformation on the other hand.

Read more: TDRA issues the UAE Digital Transformation Enablers report

In a one of a kind virtual event hosted by the Kingdom of Bahrain on 25-26 January, over Zoom, WomenTech Leaders was the most important meeting for women leaders in the field of technology from more than 20 countries. Women leaders shared their experiences besides the challenges they face in the society and in their work field.

Read more: WomenTech Leaders: Success stories and promising experiences

Following CITC’s pivotal decision to make the entire 6 GHz band license-exempt to capitalize on the global Wi-Fi 6E momentum, Telecom Review organized the Wi-Fi 6E virtual roundtable on January 24.

Read more: Virtual roundtable by Telecom Review: Wi-Fi 6E and 6 GHz band under the spotlight

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