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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 1, 2015 |
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- Syniverse extends LTE roaming reach for Telin
Indonesia and Asia Pacific represent a critical market for LTE roaming in the next few years... Read More
- DE-CIX launches service in Istanbul and acquires IST-IX
The new Istanbul exchange will deliver carrier and data center-neutral Internet exchange services in Turkey, the Caucasus region, Persia and the Middle East... Read More
- Huawei witnesses exponential growth in ME
Among other products, the company continues to break new ground in the wearables space, especially with the unveiling of the Huawei Watch, powered by Android Wear(tm) and IOS. Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- India government notifies spectrum sharing guidelines
The guidelines issued by the government allow telecom companies to share even traded spectrum, where telecom companies can sell the right to use spectrum to other company and later share the same spectrum... Read More
- Arcep authorizes Orange to trial ‘5G’ in France
The project will examine ‘the conditions of use for millimetre-wave frequency bands between 6GHz and 100GHz for 5G’... Read More
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South Asia
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- Deployment of hydrogen fuel-cell power to Indian telecom towers
Over 70 percent of India's 425,000 telecom towers experience power outages of approximately eight hours per day, leaving nearly half of the country's 935 million mobile phone users frequently disconnected... Read More
- Airtel, Axiata Bangladesh apply for merger permission
The operators hope to complete a merger deal by January 2016 to leapfrog Vimpelcom’s subsidiary Banglalink as Bangladesh’s second-largest mobile provider behind Telenor’s GrameenPhone unit... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Orange in final talks to sell Kenyan mobile stake
Orange has about 100 million subscribers in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Mali among other countries, bringing in nearly 10 percent of group sales last year... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Indosat to launch LTE in November
Indosat embarked on a major network modernisation programme two years ago in anticipation of rolling out 4G LTE... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- OTT mobile voice revenues to hit $10+ billion by 2020 at telco expense
There are even OTT services such as Fring, which are becoming increasingly important in helping operators compete with the OTT business model’ through a white label service... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- IPTV and DTH beat US cable in consumer satisfaction
Scores for network performance and reliability have improved, the number of households connected to digital service has grown and satisfaction has increased across wireline offerings... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Mobile banking adoption due to surge in ASEAN
Despite the uneven distribution in economic prosperity among the ASEAN states, financial services technology trends have a similar impact across all of ASEAN... Read More
- Orange Business Service connects with Google in the cloud
Among its potential uses, Orange said its enterprise customers could now directly access Google Cloud Platform data centres in the US, Europe and Asia... Read More
- Microwave to remain key backhaul tech despite rise of fiber
Microwave networks are a vital ingredient for operators to provide the best possible performance and quality of experience in the most cost-efficient way... Read More
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