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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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February 10, 2016 |
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- Zain Group generated revenues of $3.8 billion and recorded net income of $513 million for 2015
Zain Group remains resilient to the wider challenges facing a number of its markets, and the region in general, with much confidence in the growth and uptake of data services, which now account for 20% of overall service revenues... Read More
- PTCL records robust performance in FY 2015 with 20% cash dividend
The company’s profitability continued to remain stable despite competition, especially in the broadband segment and cash flows remained healthy and stable due to continuous efforts to optimize costs as well as strong market position... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Redistribution of telecom spectrum partly calms investors
The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission will assign the highly-prized 900MHz and 1800MHz spectrums among the country's four largest operators --Axiata Group's Celcom, Maxis, DiGi.Com and U Mobile -- and charge fee... Read More
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South Asia
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- Bharti Airtel in talks to merge its wholly-owned Sri Lanka unit into Dialog Axiata
A potential Airtel Lanka-Dialog-Axiata merger is likely to be along the lines of the recent merger of Bharti Airtel and Axiata's telecom units in Bangladesh, wherein Axiata will be the dominant shareholder and Airtel a strategic minority holder in the combined entity... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- AfricaOnline Ghana Limited enhances high speed broadband offering
The pan-African service provider has further bolstered its offering through iManage, a smart desktop services and management application aimed at drastically reducing high corporate IT budgets... Read More
- Algeria plans to producce optical fiber
Algeria Telecom is in discussions with national industry groups for the local production of optical fiber and accessories that the company imports... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- DTAC Thailand plans $2 billion investment
The operator uses spectrum in the 1800MHz and 2100MHz bands for 4G services, will invest throughout 2016 to 2018 and expects to have LTE networks in 77 provinces by mid-2016 and coverage in all 878 districts nationwide... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Twitter to change homepage to customize tweet displays to individuals
Twitter said it analyzed how users have engaged with billions of tweets to determine what they are most interested in... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Evolution Digital launches eVUE-TV
eVUE-TV combines streaming video-on-demand (VOD) content with live cable television offerings. Following Evolution Digital’s acquisition of i-Velozity, the rebranded eVUE-TV provides cable operators a wide selection of IP VOD content... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Service provider core router market size to reach $3.4 billion in 2020
Previously, 100 GE was primarily installed on high-end core routers and now more are being installed on relatively lower-priced edge routers. Global telecom industry expects that 100 GE ports will shift from backbone core deployments and into metro core deployments, further driving demand, as the pricing points become less cost prohibitive... Read More
- Inmarsat joins LoRa Alliance
The LoRa Alliance aims to standardize LP-WAN for IoT, M2M, smart city and industrial applications. Members of the alliance aim to guarantee interoperability between operators via the open global standard LoRaWAN... Read More
- NZ telcos and internet access world class
The New Zealand Telecommunications Forum (TCF) said in its report $1.7 billion was invested in the sector a year, proportionately one of the highest levels in the OECD... Read More
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