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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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January 26, 2016 |
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Members
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- Huawei to address role of technology in public safety at "Global Emergency Telecommunications 2016" in Kuwait
The three day GET 2016 event, which is organized by the Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and hosted by the Government of Kuwait, serves as an international platform to discuss international Emergency Telecommunication policy and disaster risk reduction topics... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Saudi Shoura Council calls for reduction in communication fees
Members of the Shoura Council have called on the country's telecommunication companies to reduce their Internet and other communication fees... Read More
- Brazil restructures DTT plan
The published document also states how society will be informed about the process and coverage guarantees, saying that no switch-off will take place unless 93% of homes have the necessary technology to receive the DTT signal... Read More
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South Asia
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- Vodafone India leverages Cisco SON tech to improve mobile experience
Vodafone India, which has more than 194 million customers, has already deployed Cisco's Self Optimizing Network (SON) technology over a third of its network. Deployment will continue until the entire network is SON-enabled... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Maroc Telecom pays first instalment of Ivory Coast licence
Maroc Telecom has paid the first half of a 100 billion CFA franc ($165.1 million) telecommunications licence fee in Ivory Coast, after taking a majority stake in local operator Moov last year... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- AIS to spend billions on 3G, 4G expansion
AIS, 23% owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, planned to spend 20 billion baht on the 3G network and another 20 billion on the 4G network in Thailand... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Facebook, Microsoft, Google voice against possible regulation of OTT services
The meeting was organised by the Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services after the CEOs of MTN South Africa and Vodacom last year said that OTT services don't contribute financially to local networks... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Jazztel starts off Orange TV offer
Jazztel will start offering Orange TV to subscribers to its fibre, ADSL and convergent services and Jazztel's TV clients will also have access to Orange's video-on-demand (VOD) portfolio... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- ZTE becomes first NFV vendor to complete China Mobile IoT tests
ZTE worked together with many partners including VMware, Hewlett-Packard and Red Hat in a multi-vendor test environment designed to verify the interoperability of different configurations of hardware resource layers, virtual resource layers and virtualised network functions (VNF) layers... Read More
- Evolving supply chain has implications for telco CTOs
The CTO role is being extended or challenged well beyond traditional boundaries and that the role of CIO is become increasingly more evident, sometimes being merged with that of the CTO... Read More
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