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:.Daily News Briefing.:

November 3, 2015

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SAMENA Council Position Statements
Cullen International

Members

  1. Etisalat Group amongst the Top 100 Employers in Europe, Middle East and Africa
    Etisalat Group, the leading Telecommunications Operator in Middle East, Africa and Asia, has been ranked thirtieth amongst LinkedIn’s ‘EMEA’s 2015 Top 100 Most InDemand Employers’, and is the only telecom operator to be named on the list... Read More
  2. PTCL provides medical relief and restores communication links in earthquake hit areas
    PTCL responded proactively to the emergency situation, and its dedicated teams through their round the clock efforts and hard work, have restored most of the communication services... Read More
  3. Eutelsat steps up African broadband plans
    Eutelsat’s order of a high-capacity broadband satellite follows its recent announcement of the lease of Ka-band capacity on the AMOS-6 satellite that will enable broadband services to be delivered in Sub-Saharan Africa from the end of 2016... Read More
  4. Qualcomm, ZTE sign new 3G/4G licence
    Qualcomm has granted ZTE royalty-bearing patent licenses to develop, manufacture, and sell 3G and 4G products, such as smartphones, modules, and infrastructure equipment... Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) approves renewal and extension of the tenure of MTN’s operating spectrum
    MTN’s operating spectrum which was issued along with the Digital Mobile License (DML) in 2001 (with an original expiry date of February 2016), has now been extended to 31 August 2021. Read More
  2. Bangladesh drafts revised telecom policy to ensure telecom-friendly environment
    The government, for the first time, has included short-term, mid-term and long-term industry targets in the country’s telecom policy... Read More

South Asia

  1. Continued support critical for Bhutan's ICT development
    Continued collaboration and support from other countries is critical for small developing countries like Bhutan, which is constrained with high internet connectivity costs and reliability issues... Read More

Middle East

  1. Industrial players to become data analytics companies
    As part of the digital push, GE plans to build data analytics centres in the region on its own and with joint venture partners that will be run by local staff. The company already has an aviation analytics centre in the UAE... Read More

North Africa

  1. Egyptian digital services and carrier solutions company to expand reach in MENA
    A15 owns the T-Pay brand, a regional built carrier billing solution that enables customers to use their mobile numbers to get billed online over more than 25 mobile operators in 11 countries across the region... Read More
  2. Telecoms industry to contribute 25% to GDP by 2025 in the African nation
    Multiple taxation is one of the limitations facing the growth of broadband penetration and services enhancement... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Ericsson wins 4G LTE deals from Indonesia’s Indosat and Telkomsel
    The technology vendor will roll out a 4G LTE network for Indosat in Greater Jakarta and provide a full radio network transformation for Telkomsel in the region of Kalimantan... Read More
  2. HKT, Huawei demonstrate a step toward 4.5G
    The demo is said to have reached peak download speed of as high as 1.2 Gbps. The two companies said the demo is a significant milestone towards the commercial availability of what they term “4.5G” technology... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. SpotX, clypd partner on programmatic, OTT-linear ad platform
    The pairing of SpotX's digital video platform and clypd's linear TV platform will create a holistic ad sales solution... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. SAARC IPTV market Q2 2015 - total active IPTV subscriber base in SAARC will be around 300,000+
    SriLanka's IPTV subscriber base contributes to nearly 47% of the overall SAARC IPTV subscribers, followed by Pakistan and India with about 35% and 18% respectively... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Google to let artificial intelligence send smart replies to emails
    The technology is part of an update to Google's Inbox app for managing and organizing email. The feature announced on Tuesday is the latest example of Google's effort to teach machines... Read More
  2. M1 deploying nex-gen SDN at cloud data center
    SDN technology is designed to enable data center operators to enjoy a comprehensive unified view of a network and have effective control over each network element through a central management tool... Read More

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