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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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February 16, 2016 |
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Ooredoo invests $1 billion in network
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Ooredoo recently launched a major speed upgrade for fibre customers, boosting its top-level packages to deliver the fastest Fibre speeds in Qatar for free. With the upgrade, all 50Mbps home fibre plans received a double speed increase to 100Mbps, while existing 100Mbps plans were boosted to 300Mbps...
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du delights children with special needs through its Live! Platform
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The children were given the rare opportunity to enjoy Disney’s Frozen, the highest grossing Disney animated movie of all time, accompanied by a live orchestra and soloists bringing the musical soundtrack to life...
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Orange investment touches $7.2 billion in 2015
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In line with the Essentiels2020 strategic plan, Orange’s investment in fiber in Europe increased 55 percent. Orange has made investment in the mobile networks with the upgrading of mobile access networks and the continued deployment of 4G LTE networks. Orange has deployed 3G in all countries of the Africa and Middle East segment...
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Policy and Regulation
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- India changes competition rules; approves active infrastructure sharing
India's Department of Telecom has changed competition rules to allow for active as well as passive infrastructure sharing, in a move expected to help operators reduce capex costs by up to 35%... Read More
- UK government scraps £150 million infrastructure project
The project, first unveiled in 2011 and rolled out in 2013, proposed the construction of 600 masts in the country within three years, targeting the end of so called ‘not spots’ in remote areas without sufficient mobile connectivity... Read More
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South Asia
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- Sri Lankan calls Google's Internet balloons a "big victory" for its citizens
The country was the first in South Asia to introduce cellphones, but only a quarter of its population has Internet access. With Sri Lanka taking a 25 percent stake in the balloon-powered Internet program, Project Loon may represent a different model than Facebook's Free Basics... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- MTN and Jumia to launch Entrepreneurship Challenge across Africa
The Pan-African competition will be the first of its kind in Africa, bringing together over 1000 entrepreneurs, students and investors, to collaborate on ways to amplify and consolidate the continent’s entrepreneurs... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- TCS launches VoLTE solution for virtualized networks
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has launched a solution to enable Voice over LTE for virtualized networks using TCS' Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Concerto platform. This will help in creating new business opportunities, simplifying product development, and helping customers deal... Read More
- China Unicom to double 4G services
The estimated $3.7 billion deal is expected to double the operator's 4G base stations to about 900,000, boosting its 4G reach in more than 330 cities across China... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Netflix pricing currently favours developed markets
The company's strategy has been to target key customer segments in developing markets. Even though prices are likely to be tweaked in the mid-term... Read More
- Kenya’s Jamii Telecoms launches OTT streaming device
Jamii Telecoms has introduced an Internet-streaming device to provide subscribers with access to over-the-top (OTT) video services including Netflix, Huluplus, Kodi and Cloud TV... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Asia Pacific embraces IPTV
The Asia Pacific IPTV market is set to become the second biggest in the world by 2018 fuelled by government supported infrastructure development including fibre roll-outs and consumer demand... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Vodafone, Liberty Global agree merger of Dutch activities
The merger is expected to lead to synergies of EUR 3.5 billion, including EUR 280 million in annual cost savings from the fifth year. Integration costs are estimated at EUR 350 million over three years... Read More
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