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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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November 30, 2015 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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Members
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- Mobily wins hosting and cloud services Assurance Excellence Award
Mobily together with its strategic partner Devoteam, also a SAMENA Council member, has worked on upgrading the service assurance and monitoring for Mobily usiness customers enjoying the hosting and cloud services... Read More
- Zain Group deal with Uber gets recognition for the most innovative service
The partnership between Zain Group and Uber was announced in September 2015. As per the deal, Zain is Uber’s main mobile service provider for any future Uber services in any country where Zain operates... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Philippines' SMC likely to keep 700-MHz spectrum
The regulator declared last week that it would be difficult to recall and reassign the spectrum, as requested by incumbent operators PLDT and Globe Telecom, the Inquirer reported... Read More
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South Asia
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- India's telecom sector to see consolidation, rise in debt
Telecom industry will witness consolidation and Idea-Videocon spectrum trade is first of a series of such deals possible in the sector driven by the recent guidelines on spectrum trading... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Orange and ENGIE sign deal to expand rural electricity grid in Africa
The deal reasserts the companies’ willingness to use their technological knowledge to achieve sustainable progress and economic and social development in Africa... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Ericsson, Cosmote live LTE demo downloads at 500 Mbps
The test used Ericsson’s LTE Advanced software radio solutions and networks software 16A... Read More
- US operators to invest USD 56 billion in 5G networks
The first 5G networks are likely to include some or all of the following: a virtualised mobile core over which a preponderance of traffic flows, some type of 'evolved' IoT use case, and LTE-A deployed along with new spectrum... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Tata taps Net Insight as first OTT delivery customer
Net Insight's live OTT solution synchronises content across screens, and allows a second screen to serve as an extension of the viewing experience... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Smart homes, DTH market to drive DVR growth
The global DVR market — calculated from revenue generated from the sales of such devices over cable, DTH, IPTV and DTT networks — will grow at a CAGR of 14.82% over the period 2014-2019... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- TIM launches 100 Mbps fiber offer, 300 Mbps in Milan
Telecom Italia's FTTH rollout is in addition to its national development plan to provide fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) services to 75 percent of the population by 2017... Read More
- Internet use growth slows down in 2015: ITU
The number of mobile broadband subscriptions rose from 0.8 billion in 2010 to 3.5 billion in 2015. The number of fixed broadband subscriptions has reached 0.8 billion... Read More
- China Mobile to buy out fixed line business
The assets also include as nationwide fiber backbone spanning around 99,000 cable kilometres, a metro fiber network covering around 1.8 million cable kilometres, and a pool of around 24.7 million IPv4 addresses... Read More
- Microsoft to help Singapore meet IoT vision
In support for Singapore’s Smart Nation vision, Microsoft is helping over 50 local IT partners enable public and private organizations to leverage the Internet of Things (IoT)... Read More
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