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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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January 12, 2016 |
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- Orange expands in Africa with Cellcom acquisition
The takeover will give it ownership of the largest of Liberia's four mobile operators and enlarge its footprint in the Francophone region. Cellcom Liberia has 1.3 million mobile customers and a market share of about 45%, just ahead of LonestarCell MTN... Read More
- Ufone – Meezan Bank unveil TVC for world’s first Islamic Branchless Banking service
Ufone, renowned for its innovative and out-of-the-box products and advertisements in collaboration with Meezan Bank, Pakistan’s first and largest Islamic bank, have unveiled the TVC for Meezan-Upaisa, World’s first Islamic Branchless Banking service... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Reliance Comm asked to pay price for liberalizing 800 MHz spectrum
Reliance Communications applied for liberalizing its 800 MHz spectrum in 20 circles a few months back. Reliance Communications is yet to receive any notice for the remaining four circles, where market determined price is not available... Read More
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South Asia
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- Telenor pledges commitment to Thai market
Telenor's Thai unit Dtac remains the company's most lucrative subsidiary. Dtac contributed 14.4% of Telenor Group's total revenue in Q315... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Nigeria-Cameroun submarine cable goes live
The new submarine cable system will address increasing demand for reliable broadband connectivity in Cameroun, and is a key component of the country’s strategic plan to provide internet access to its citizens via a National Broadband Network... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Nokia wins LTE network deal with Australian oil company
Nokia saw revenues decline in the third quarter, which it blamed on falling sales in North America and Europe. The company, which has completed its takeover of Alcatel-Lucent, will begin trading as the “new” Nokia later this week... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- A third of UK broadband households have an OTT subscription
Research has revealed the fast growing nature of the UK over-the-top (OTT) market with 33% of homes in the country taking up such a service at the end of the third quarter of 2015...
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Content exclusivity key to MENA pay-TV growth
From the $1,028 million pay-TV revenues to be added between 2015 and 2021, Turkey will likely supply $206 million, the UAE $141 million and Saudi Arabia $194 million. Revenues in Israel will fall slightly over this period due to greater competition and the conversion of subscribers to bundle, resulting in lower TV revenues per subscriber... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- BT signs major cloud services contract with the EU
Under two new contracts that were signed, BT is set to bring both public and private cloud to 52 major EU institutions. Those include the European Parliament, the European Council and the European Defence Agency... Read More
- Used smartphones worth US$17 billion to global economy
Deloitte highlighted the second-hand smartphone market as just one of a number of trends it believes will affect the telecoms and broadband sectors in 2016... Read More
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