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:.Daily News Briefing.:

December 9, 2015

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  1. Etisalat Group celebrates graduates of its Global High Potential (HiPo) program
    The HiPo program is designed to develop 72 future leaders of the leading telecommunications operator in Middle East, Africa, and Asia... Read More
  2. du deploys Huawei’s SingleSON self-organizing network solution
    The technology will ultimately help du to manage the explosive growth and development of mobile data traffic which is expected to increase over the next decade... Read More
  3. PCCW Global wins MEF Best Wholesale Service Provider – Global award
    The award recognized the operator's robust wholesale offering and global coverage at the Metro Ethernet Forum’s (MEF) Excellence Awards 2015, further enhancing its reputation as a world leader in Carrier Ethernet service delivery... Read More
  4. Orange, Huawei team to build energy efficient telecom networks
    The partnership will accelerate the implementation of high energy-efficient solutions in Orange’s infrastructures to achieve the company’s 2020 objective of reducing CO2 emissions per customer-usage by 50 percent... Read More
  5. Apple releases first Arabic version of Siri
    Apple has steadily broadened Siri's reach since the first edition was released in 2011, and the digital assistant now supports 18 languages spoken in 31 countries... Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. EU proposes policy on cross-border access to OTT content services
    The EC has proposed a regulation to give consumers access to their subscriptions wherever they are in the EU from 2017. The Digital Single Market proposal maintains that it should work the same as roaming, giving users the same experience in all EU countries... Read More
  2. Regulator floats paper to look into differential pricing in data services in India
    It has asked if telecom operators should be allowed to have different pricing for accessing different websites, applications and platforms... Read More

South Asia

  1. Afghanistan has 80% mobile penetration and 3 million Internet users
    In 2002, there was no infrastructure. But now, there is 80% mobile penetration and 3 million people out of the 30 million population are using the Internet. Almost 70% of the mobile owners are poor people, and almost 12% of GDP contribution comes from the telecom sector... Read More

Middle East

  1. Tablets and smartphones impact Middle East & Africa PC market
    The final quarter of the year is expected to play host to yet another steep year-on-year decline, with IDC forecasting the market for 2015 as a whole to total 14 million units, down 22.2% from 2014. Commercial demand for PCs in the region is expected to surpass that from home users by the year 2017... Read More

North Africa

  1. Telcos paid GHC1.05 billion total tax in 2014
    The mobile telecommunications sector has been one of the most vibrant sectors of the Ghana economy since its liberalisation in the early nineties. A study carried out by Price Waterhouse Coopers (PwC) for the Ghana Telecoms Chamber indicates telecom operators in the country paid a total of GHC1.05 billion in total taxes in 2014 alone... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. 3G to be boon for Palestine's consumers and economy
    Palestinian mobile operators Paltel and Wataniya have set aside a combined $150 million for the upgrade from 2G. 3G may inject $80-$100 million into the Palestinian economy every year... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. ONE CONNXT launches cloud OTT delivery
    The platform supports over-the-top (OTT) delivery to set-top boxes (STBs), connected TVs, iOS and Android tablets and smartphones... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Global mobile advertising expenditure to overtake desktop in 2018
    Mobile advertising will total US$114 billion in 2018, up from US$50 billion in 2015, and will be larger than all other media except for television... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Roaming issues affect telco’s ARPU from M2M
    Currently 70 percent of operators are unable to detect when M2M devices roam into their networks. These devices do not behave like people; some consume signaling but very little data, and the ones that are defective or poorly configured may cause significant network issues... Read More
  2. MTS, Google partner to boost mobile commerce in Russia
    MTS, a leading telecommunications provider in Russia and the CIS, announced partnership with Google in mobile commerce in Russia... Read More

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