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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 29, 2015 |
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- Ooredoo Oman EBITDA up by 17.7% in first nine months and increased revenue and customers
EBITDA for the first nine months of the year stood at OMR 104.3 million compared to OMR 88.6 million for the same period of 2014. EBITDA growth for the year is driven by higher revenue... Read More
- Cisco projects cloud traffic to quadruple by 2019
Global cloud traffic will more than quadruple by the end of 2019, from 2.1 to 8.6 zettabytes (ZB), outpacing the growth of total global data center traffic, which is forecast to triple during the same time frame (from 3.4 to 10.4 ZB)... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Robi, Airtel merger prompts clarification on spectrum policy in Bangladesh
In the second week of September, the country's third and fourth largest operators—Robi and Airtel—announced to merge their Bangladesh operations... Read More
- ANRT awards five new telecoms concessions
The regulator granted three 10-year licences for the provision of telecommunications satellite services using VSAT technology to Maroc Telecom (IAM), Wana (Inwi) and the Green Development Corporation (SADV)... Read More
- Reduced growth rate in Pakistan telecom sector an incentive for policy review
The operators' overall user base decreased by more than 25 million or 18% to 114.7 million in FY2015, compared to the peak of almost 140 million in June 30, 2014 due to biometric verification process... Read More
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South Asia
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- Bangladesh to block unregistered SIMs by mid-November
All of Bangladesh’s cellular network operators began a re-registration process for all pre-paid subscribers on 16 October, conducted via SMS text messages... Read More
- Sri Lanka's Dialog Axiata debuts managed enterprise cloud
Dialog already offers a range of enterprise services, including data connectivity and voice, digital service offerings and hosted services including Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Ethio Telecom to launch expansion tender by early 2016
The work will mostly involve upgrading software technology, including the possible addition of 5G technology... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Google, Broadcom, HP oppose LTE-U proposal
Industry body the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NTCA) already voiced its objections to the LTE-U proposal in June... Read More
- BICS awarded EU patent for GTP filter solution
The patented technology is an industry-first solution which allows mobile service providers to immediately enable seamless global 3G and LTE data roaming using BICS’ Instant Roaming platform... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Smart TVs set to rocket as new OTT era opens in Spain
With eight in ten smart TVs already connected to the Internet in Spain, manufacturers and programmers expect the market to surge as Netflix kicks off a new era of over-the-top (OTT) video services... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- BT TV ramps up in first half of fiscal 2015
For the second quarter to 30 September 2015, BT's TV division added 106,000 new subscribers to leave its customer base at a total of 1.3 million IPTV users... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Gartner predicts top tech trends for 2016
The trends are defined entailing a high potential for disruption to the business, end users or IT, the need for a major investment, or the risk of being late to adopt... Read More
- Deutsche Telekom, Huawei partner on Internet of Things
Deutsche Telekom has recently deployed the world’s first field implementation of Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT)... Read More
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