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Kuwait Times
6 days ago
- Business
- Kuwait Times
KD 174.6 million stc's revenues for six months ended June 30, 2025
Net profit increased by 2.7% to KD 17.3m • stc's customer base reaches 2.2m KUWAIT: Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc), a world-class digital leader providing innovative services and platforms to customers and enabling the digital transformation in Kuwait, announced its financial results for the six months period ended June 30, 2025, highlighting the most significant achievements as well as the financial and operational performance. In this regard, Eng Muataz Abdullah Aldharrab, the company's CEO, stated: 'By the grace of Allah, Kuwait Telecommunications Company (stc) delivered strong operational and financial results during the first half of 2025, reflecting the strength of its strategic plan focused on quality growth, operational efficiency, and the flexibility of its business model. As part of its efforts to expand market share, stc continued to roll out advanced and innovative solutions that cater to the needs of both individual and enterprise customers. The company is also enhancing its technical capabilities, aligning with the increasing demand for digital services and reaffirming its commitment to delivering sustainable and added value to all customer segments.' Commenting on stc's key achievements during the first six months of 2025, Eng. Aldharrab, stated:' The second quarter of 2025 marked a new phase of progress and excellence for stc, reflected in a series of high-quality milestones that reflect the company's ambitious vision and strong commitment to providing the best-in-class digital services and products. In this context, it is worth highlighting that Kuwait stands at the forefront of global innovation as one of the first countries to adopt 5G Advanced in June 2025, representing a key step toward upgrading the digital infrastructure. This reaffirms Kuwait's leadership in next-generation technologies and solidifying its status as a premier digital hub in the region. Consequently, stc launched its 5G Advanced network to provide an exceptional digital experience, in line with its ongoing commitment to supporting Kuwait Vision 2035 through more precise connectivity, faster speeds and smarter networks. While 5G Advanced represents the evolution of 5G technology which is poised to transform the digital experience for both individuals and businesses, this cutting-edge advancement will offer users enhanced capabilities to improve their operations and online activities, paving the way for the widespread adoption of intelligent solutions across multiple industries. As part of its efforts to strengthen its market position and enhance institutional performance within a framework of effective governance and social responsibility, stc obtained the ISO 45001:2018 certification for implementing international standards in occupational health and safety management. This achievement affirms the company's commitment to providing a safe and healthy work environment for its employees and ensuring operational efficiency at the highest global standards. Additionally, during the second quarter, stc launched the third edition of its flagship accelerator program 'inspireU,' designed to support tech startups and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Kuwait. The program aims to empower them to reach new levels of growth and innovation, in line with stc's strategic framework that focuses on enabling entrepreneurs to enhance digital innovation and business growth in the region.' Commenting on the financial results for the period ended June30, 2025, Eng Muataz Aldharrab stated: 'stc delivered strong financial performance during the first half of 2025, supported by sustainable growth across its operating segments. Total revenue reached KD 174.6 million during the first half of 2025, representing a growth of 5.2 percent compared to KD 166.0 million during the same period last year. This growth was primarily driven by the rise in the consumer segment revenues, which accounted for 77 percent of total revenue. Meanwhile, the enterprise segment contributed to 23 percent of total revenue, supported by ongoing efforts to enhance the company's business model, digital services, and providing integrated technological solutions that meet the needs of companies across various industries.' Aldharrab added: 'These results led to an increase in EBITDA by 5.7 percent, reaching KD 45.5 million during the first half of 2025, compared to KD 43.1 million in the same period of 2024, driven by higher revenues and improved operational efficiency. Net profit amounted to KD 17.3 million (earnings per share of 17 fils) during the first half of 2025, representing a growth of 2.7 percent, compared to KD 16.9 million (earnings per share of 17 fils) during the same period in 2024. This resilient financial performance reflects the company's success in cost management, balancing growth with future investments, and capitalizing on the accelerated digital transformation in the local market. Along with the continued focus on efficiency and innovation, the solid results highlight stc's ability to enhance profitability and achieve sustainable growth. It is also worth noting that stc's customer base reached approximately 2.2 million by the end of June 2025.' Commenting on the company's financial position as of June 30, 2025, Aldharrab stated: 'The company's total assets reached KD 470.4 million by the end of the first half of 2025, while total shareholders' equity stood at KD 222.9 million, reflecting a solid financial position and a stable capital structure. stc continues to maintain strong financial solvency, ranking among the best in the telecom sector across the region. This enables the company to pursue growth and expansion projects without compromising financial stability. The strength of stc's financial position allows it to respond flexibly to future opportunities and market shifts while supporting its expansion strategies in line with its vision for digital transformation and sustainable growth, striking a balance between investment-driven growth and operational returns. Through this approach, stc aims to diversify its revenue streams, enhance cost and resource management efficiency, and generate sustainable and rewarding returns for its shareholders. The company is also committed to closely monitoring and analyzing key performance indicators, while executing its operational and investment initiatives with high efficiency, relying on its advanced digital infrastructure and well-structured long-term growth plans. These efforts reflect stc's commitment to upholding the highest standards of governance and internal control, fostering a culture of transparency and institutional excellence, and ensuring business continuity while strengthening the company's ability to achieve excellence and competitive superiority in a rapidly evolving business environment.'
Gizmodo
21-07-2025
- Automotive
- Gizmodo
T-Mobile Upgrades Network With L4S to Improve Video Calls and Cloud Gaming
If you're a T-Mobile customer, you may have noticed that your FaceTime calls have gotten smoother. That's because the carrier announced today that it's rolling out support for a new tech called Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) across its 5G Advanced network. T-Mobile says it's the first U.S. wireless provider to deploy L4S at scale, and it's promising a noticeable boost to video calls and cloud gaming. L4S works by helping your phone or device stay ahead of network congestion before it causes lagging or buffering. Most networks only react once things get bad. L4S flips that model by using early signals to warn devices about congestion before it becomes a problem. That lets your apps adjust in real time, keeping things smoother even in busy environments. 'L4S consistently delivers low latency, minimal packet loss and real-time responsiveness — even under heavy traffic,' John Saw, EVP and Chief Technology Officer, wrote in a blog post. 'It's a major step forward for performance-driven use cases where every millisecond matters, including cloud gaming, video calling, Extended Reality (XR) and even remote driving.' T-Mobile has been testing the feature with partners like Qualcomm and Ericsson, including a trial involving smart glasses and augmented reality. 'The results? Crystal-clear visuals, ultra-smooth frame delivery and significantly reduced motion sickness and dizziness,' wrote Saw. Nvidia's GeForce NOW has already added support for L4S to improve game streaming performance. T-Mobile also tested the new tech in real-world settings like crowded airports, claiming it reduced 'stutters, frozen frames, and garbled audio' in FaceTime and other video calls. One of the more futuristic—and impressive—uses of L4S comes from Vay, a Berlin-based company working on remote driving tech. In Las Vegas, Vay lets users rent cars through an app, which are then delivered by remote drivers controlling the vehicles from afar. 'Using our 5G Advanced network with L4S, Vay's remote drivers experience predictable, consistent latency,' wrote Saw. 'Remote drivers said it felt like they were physically in the car, even in high-traffic, congested scenarios. This kind of ultra-low lag and responsiveness is a game-changer for mobility, logistics, and time-critical safety applications.'
Phone Arena
21-07-2025
- Business
- Phone Arena
T-Mobile 5G users should expect a richer experience after rollout of new capability
T-Mobile has announced that its 5G Advanced network is getting even better with the rollout of the Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput (L4S) capability reduce latency or delay, resulting in an improved real-time experience when using immersive applications. It cuts down on lag, making the network faster, while maintaining high throughput, or the amount of data transmitted. T-Mobile began its 5G deployment with a 5G Standalone (5G SA) network, which is purpose-built for 5G workstreams and doesn't piggyback on 4G infrastructure. Most other carriers still rely on 4G cores. This not only resulted in better speeds and greater capacity, but also allowed the company to launch 5G Advanced, which is an important step in 5G technology. This new category of 5G enables better network performance.L4S is a part of 5G Advanced. It improves responsiveness and minimizes packet loss or the loss of small data units. This is crucial for use cases where response time can make or break the experience, such as when gaming or attending an online meeting. More importantly, it can be potentially life-saving in scenarios where every millisecond counts, such as remote driving. L4S isn't a new tech, but T-Mobile is the first company to use it in wireless. It allows T-Mobile 's 5G network to be more proactive, which is incredibly important for time-critical applications like remote driving, for which the carrier has partnered with the Berlin-based Vay. The company develops remote driving technology, operating cars from different locations. Implementation of L4S will also allow for the fine-tuning of other experiences, such as Extended Reality (XR) and cloud gaming. T-Mobile notes that XR has the potential to change how we work and play, but it has been help back by jitter and delays. The company has partnered with Qualcomm and Ericsson to test the performance of slim smart glasses with L4S enabled. The result was clear visuals, better frame delivery or data transmission, and reduced motion sickness. T-Mobile concluded that L4S can help take XR mainstream. L4S can also improve cloud gaming by minimising interruptions. T-Mobile says NVIDIA has already enabled L4S support in GeForce NOW to reduce latency and packet loss during gameplay. This, along with T-Mobile 's 5G Advanced network, should allow for a console-level experience when cloud gaming, even during network congestion. The tech will also improve the quality of online meetings and calls by dynamically adjusting for network congestion. This will reduce stutters, frozen frames, and distorted audio. L4S will be foundational to T-Mobile 's network slicing framework. It will also enable the network to make smarter decisions and offer customized performance tiers for XR, gaming, video, and other latency-sensitive use cases. The company also plans to bring the capabilities to enterprise offerings to unlock lag-free experiences across industries. It has also teamed up with Apple and other companies to optimize how its app works. In short, L4S is a tech to improve video streaming. As T-Mobile 's president of technology, Ulf Ewaldsson, previously said, this video priority tech will create a better video experience for different apps. He explained that during times of overload, the network will send a message to the app to ask it to adapt to the condition to ensure the video keeps playing smoothly. This will be achieved by lowering video quality, which is better than buffering or freezing. —Ulf Ewaldsson, T-Mobile 's president of technology, October 2024 T-Mobile has once again proven that it's ahead of rivals when it comes to 5G advancements. The L4S tech will hopefully reduce content load time and ensure more responsive collaboration between users. This will especially help when a network is being used by many devices at once.
The Verge
21-07-2025
- Automotive
- The Verge
T-Mobile is bringing low-latency tech to 5G for the first time
Over the next few weeks, T-Mobile is expanding support for the L4S standard, which stands for 'Low Latency, Low Loss, Scalable Throughput.' The technology helps high-priority internet packets move along with fewer delays, to make video calls and cloud games feel smoother and reduce annoying hitches. Users won't need a special phone or plan to take advantage of the benefits from L4S. 'This is network-driven,' T-Mobile CTO John Saw tells The Verge. L4S is already deployed in 'many cities' on T-Mobile's 5G Advanced network, but the company is 'actively expanding' the coverage, company spokesperson Anushka Bishen says. Saw says T-Mobile is the first wireless network in the US to implement L4S. The L4S standard helps devices manage congestion with internet packets so that you're less likely to hit a pause if that congestion leads to buffering and latency, which can still become a problem even on higher bandwidth connections like upgraded 5G networks. With L4S, packets get an indicator that will get marked if they experience congestion, and devices can read those packets to make adjustments to hopefully reduce that congestion and maybe even eliminate it. Saw used a car analogy to help explain it: 'In the olden days, you used reactive braking when traffic slows down. L4S is more like dynamic cruise control, where the car actually automatically slows down and speeds up without you having to jump in.' If you want to read more, my former colleague Mitchell Clark has a detailed explainer of how it's supposed to help. For users, this means that applications that support L4S should experience less latency. In a blog post, Saw highlights how L4S can benefit things like Nvidia's GeForce Now and Apple's FaceTime calls. Both Nvidia and Apple also worked with Comcast during its trials of L4S, and Comcast started rolling out L4S to some cities earlier this year.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
India aiming to contribute 10% of global 6G patents: Scindia
Kanpur/Bengaluru: Union minister of communications Jyotiraditya Scindia on Friday said that the govt aims to foster next-generation communication technologies, such as 6G, by establishing robust policy frameworks, boosting research funding, and allocating spectrum in a timely manner to facilitate innovation and testing. Reviewing the progress of Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA) along with Neeraj Mittal, secretary, telecom, the minister said that the Bharat 6G alliance should create a focused, strategic and clear roadmap for driving the innovation in 6G technology. "Guided by Prime Minister Narendra Modiji's vision, I highlighted how India is not just advancing with indigenous 4G/5G stacks but also aiming to contribute 10% of global 6G patents, placing the nation at the forefront of telecom innovation," Scindia later posted on X. The event included comprehensive presentations from working group chairpersons, outlining actionable plans and key technological advancements. Among them was Prof Rohit Budhiraja, vice chair of B6GA and professor in the department of electrical engineering at IIT-Kanpur, who delivered a presentation titled "Global 6G Standardisation". He shared India's growing contributions to international standard-setting bodies such as 3GPP and ITU, and emphasized the importance of aligning national efforts with global benchmarks. Drawing from India's active participation in global standard-setting forums such as the 3GPP workshop in Korea and the TSG RAN meeting in Prague, Prof Budhiraja outlined how India is shaping discussions on critical 6G design goals including ubiquitous coverage, AI integration, security, and energy efficiency. He emphasized that 6G must inherently support both terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, and presented frameworks for integrating AI-as-a-Service and post-quantum cryptography into 6G networks. He said, "Artificial Intelligence and 6G share a symbiotic relationship. While AI will make 6G networks more secure, efficient, and adaptive, from threat detection to energy optimization, 6G will, in turn, serve as a foundational platform to scale AI applications through AI-as-a-Service, seamless data handling, and intelligent connectivity. At IIT-Kanpur, our work is actively shaping this intersection, building on insights from 5G Advanced and pushing the frontiers for what 6G can enable. " The government of India unveiled the Bharat 6G Vision Document in March 2023, laying the strategic foundation for India's leadership in the sixth generation (6G) of wireless systems. To operationalize this vision, the Bharat 6G Alliance (B6GA) was established as a multi-stakeholder platform, uniting academia, industry, startups, and public institutions. The Bharat 6G Alliance is a collaborative initiative, designed to create a comprehensive and future-ready 6G ecosystem in India. Its focus on R&D, innovation, and standardization is central to the national mission of making India a global leader in 6G.
