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:.Daily News Briefing.:

January 27, 2016

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  1. Turk Telekom brand now encompasses Avea, TTNet operations; marks convergence
    Turkey’s Turk Telekom has announced the merging of its respective mobile and ISP brands Avea and TTNet under the unified Turk Telekom brand name, logo and website... Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. TRA grants public satellite service licence to Inmarsat
    The licence grants Inmarsat permission to offer mobile satellite communication services to public and private sector users within the UAE, in the government, media, maritime and aviation sectors. Inmarsat’s services will also be available to support humanitarian and emergency relief efforts... Read More
  2. Guinea introducing new tax on data, SMS
    According to the report, a tax of $0.0013 will be introduced on text messages, while the additional fee for mobile internet access will be 5% of the overall cost of the subscription package... Read More
  3. Sri Lanka Telecom regulator introduces common floor rates from Feb 1
    The TRC has instructed the telecom operators to introduce a common rate for both on-net and off-net voice calls instead of the different rates being used currently... Read More
  4. TRAI India recommends entire spectrum in 700 MHz band for auction
    The industry's entire argument around call drop problem is that there is an acute spectrum crunch. TRAI believes that release of more spectrum will address the call drop problem... Read More

South Asia

  1. Easypaisa looks to nurture Pakistan’s online payments
    The provider claimed it is now the country’s “first comprehensive online payments solution” for e-commerce firms... Read More
  2. Bharti Airtel may buy Aircel spectrum
    The deal to buy Aircel's 4G spectrum in the 2300 MHz frequency band in eight circles is expected to be finalised by March-end... Read More

Middle East

  1. GCC adopts UAE's cyber experience and methods
    The meeting’s agenda entailed discussing the GCC CERTS Committee working mechanism and tasks, activating the GCC Information Security Strategy, setting the cooperation framework between GCC CERTS and the regional and international centers, in addition to activating the emergency response training simulation, benefitting from the fiber-optic infrastructure in the e-linking project... Read More

North Africa

  1. Ericsson reorganises customer units for Egypt, East Africa
    Ericsson has appointed three new Heads of Customer Units in the Region Middle East and East Africa. In a new geographical set-up that aims to increase focus and respond faster to customers' needs in key markets... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Beeline, Megafon to jointly develop LTE networks
    This is Beeline's second agreement to share infrastructure in order to support network development. In December it announced plans to expand a trial with MTS to share LTE spectrum in 20 regions of Russia... Read More
  2. Ericsson bridges the LTE and 5G gap with LTE-E
    Whereas 5G will require new spectrum in high-frequency bands (i.e., over 3.5 GHz) and new base stations, LTE-E is backward-compatible, leveraging existing LTE hardware and low-band and unlicensed spectrum to deliver improved network performance... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Majority of US broadband homes have OTT subscriptions
    The emerging cloud-based businesses will be experimenting with different monetisation models in 2016 and beyond... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Telefónica to begin content production drive
    Telefónica intends to produce series aimed at different target audiences and ready for watching on-demand and on all devices... Read More
  2. Korea Telecom selects Ericsson encoders for HD upgrade
    This deployment will enable KT to lead the media industry’s evolution into the Internet era of television and re-establish the value of its services by guaranteeing the best possible compression performance for its mobile and IPTV subscribers... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. 83% of businesses plan to adopt hybrid clouds
    Drivers behind these digital technology investments include improving the customer experience (87% of respondents indicated this was a critical or very important goal); acquiring new customers (86%); increasing innovation (82%); enabling real-time business decisions (82%)... Read More
  2. Google aims to bring machine learning to everyday devices
    Google's future mobile devices could have the ability to understand images and audio at higher speeds and accuracy, offering a more personal and contextualized computing experience without requiring a data center... Read More
  3. Telecom operators join Facebook’s Open Source Data Center Project
    As their networks become increasingly virtualized, telecommunications company offices will function and look more like data centers. Some of the world’s largest telcos have turned to the Open Compute Project, the Facebook-led open source data center and hardware design initiative... Read More

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