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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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September 30, 2015 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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- Zain Group participates in "Global Goals for Sustainable Development" awareness campaign
This unprecedented collaboration of the world's largest digital and mobile companies supports the 17 ambitious goals that were adopted by 193 world leaders at the United Nations on September 25... Read More
- du and Huawei co-debut first commercial 400G OTN network in the Middle East & Africa
The introduction of 400G ultrahigh capacity coherent optical transmission into du’s backbone network gives it the opportunity to take optical networks to the next level of capacity, performance and speed... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- MCIT Myanmar delays allocation of new mobile licence
The winning bidders will go on to form a consortium that will then team up with a foreign operator – also to be selected by the MCIT – to establish the nation’s fourth mobile operator... Read More
- TRAI proposed implementation of public safety answering point (PSAP)
The Indian regulator proposed implementation of public safety answering point (PSAP) based integrated emergency communication and response system (IECRS), which will be accessed through a single emergency number 112... Read More
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South Asia
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- Dhiraagu Maldives completes third-generation nationwide network launch
Dhiraagu says it has connected the country from north to south via a fibre-optic submarine cable network. Read More
- Pakistan broadband provider launches new apps
The content app can be downloaded from the Google Play store and the service is also available at tv.wi-tribe.pk... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Egypt's Orascom approves Dutch BlueStone's assets in Sao Paulo
OTMT's board has agreed to sign a loan contract worth US$35 million with Banque Libano-Française to partially fund the purchase of BlueStone... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Syniverse enables VoLTE roaming launch between LG Uplus and SmarTone
More than 420 operators have commercially launched LTE networks and 25 operators have launched VoLTE... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Netflix up in the air with Virgin America
From over-the-top (OTT) to over land and sea, Netflix has now become the star in-flight attraction via Wi-Fi access... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Survey reveals increasing pace of mobile video sharing
The survey took into account responses of almost 5,000 users spanning the emerging markets of India, the Middle East and South East Asia... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Digital wallets dominate discourse on payments innovation – MasterCard Study
Out of all the conversations analysed, Nigeria was one of the top emerging markets which had the highest number of positive conversations, with 96 percent of online discussions on payments innovation being favourable... Read More
- Beyonic announces partnership with Mobile Accord to expand further into Africa
Beyonic’s online platform enables businesses to quickly deploy, track and manage 2-way mobile money payments over multiple mobile carriers with one, easy-to-use system... Read More
- AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile form coalition to promote unlicensed spectrum
The mobile operators, technology companies and associations that formed the coalition support seven principles, including the idea that the federal government should continue to make more spectrum available for unlicensed use... Read More
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