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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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November 9, 2015 |
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- Sudatel triumphs at the Global Carrier Awards
Sudatel Telecom Group won the Best African Project award at the Global Carrier Awards. Sudatel launched the first purpose-built data center in Sudan in December 2014. The project is the most secure and reliable in North, East and West Africa... Read More
- Zain Group leadership host Storehouse co-founders at headquarters
Zain is exploring possibilities for future partnership with Storehouse Media, as Zain is confident cooperation between the two companies would fit into Zain’s strategic vision of becoming an integrated digital lifestyle operator... Read More
- Yahsat to test inflight connectivity on Etihad's Airbus 320
With Ka-band solutions, speeds of up to 50 mbps to the plane are commonplace, allowing passengers to have the necessary bandwidth to stream video and enable applications such as video conferencing... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Oman households to receive smart value-added services
Thirteen tenders have been released so far to expand the optic fibre network in all governorates outside Muscat. Around 28 percent of the areas in Oman cannot be reached either by fibre network or telecom towers... Read More
- Telecommunications reforms expected in Algeria
Restructuring the sector to allow for greater competition continues to be seen as key to the industry's long-term growth potential, with regulators signalling that a new ICT law, expected in late 2015 or early 2016, could include long-awaited reforms... Read More
- Tunisia to accelerate digital agenda
The initiatives are in line with the National Strategic Plan Digital Tunisia 2018, which focuses on enabling digital technology projects with the potential to support Tunisia's economic development... Read More
- Australia's ACCC may regulate fast broadband
The regulator said it plans to simplify and clarify the regulations that apply in this area. Currently some superfast broadband services are subject to license conditions while others aren't regulated at all... Read More
- Telecom policy research matters to Bangladesh
Until now, the accelerated growth of telecom penetration, from less than 1.0 percent to more than 70 percent, has been frequently cited as triumph of policy and regulation... Read More
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South Asia
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- India telecom operator reaches out to elderly, helps them access mobile Internet
The telecom player has started conducting workshops to spread awareness about the use of Internet through mobile phones, and also provide them livelihood options by enrolling them as Points of Sales (POS) for the company's tele-services... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- $43.6 million expected for Egyptian Mobinil rebranding scheme
The rebranding process would not only help the company to compete locally, but also globally to become comprehensive technological services provider... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Orange to triple Spanish FTTH homes by 2020; has heavy plans for 4G network
Orange intends to double Spain's fibre-connected households from the current 5.2 million homes to ten million by 2016. At the end of 2015, Orange's 4G network will provide coverage in 1,300 cities across Spain... Read More
- Internet of things report 2015
35% of manufacturers already use smart sensors, 10% plan to implement them within a year and 8% plan to implement them within three years, according to a PwC report... Read More
- Euro consortium to develop cloud-based 5G
The Superfluidity Project is part of the European H2020 5G Public-Private Partnership (5G PPP) initiative. The stated aim of the project is to define and develop a converged, cloud-based 5G virtual network and service platform... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- CenturyLink to trial OTT skinny TV bundle
Charter Communications, Time Warner Cable and Comcast have been running similar trials, and Verizon and DISH Network have already launched OTT services, which they see as complements to their pay-TV efforts... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- FilmBox channels set for Tanzania
SPI International has closed deals to bring eight of its FilmBox brand channels to Tanzania's Airtel and TTCL IPTV networks... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Intelsat, JSAT plan next satellite for Asia
The satellite, to be called Horizons 3e, will be launched to the 169° East orbital slot in the second half of 2018... Read More
- Singapore firms see cloud as innovation enabler
Nine in 10 businesses in Singapore have confidence in the cloud’s role in enabling innovation, according to a survey from VMware... Read More
- Industry's first multi-vendor wireless transport SDN proof of concept presented
The goal of the PoC was to encourage the development, testing, and implementation of open SDN for wireless transport as well as demonstrate multi-layer optimization on an open SDN infrastructure... Read More
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