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February 18, 2016 |
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Alfa family celebrates the achievements of 2015: Ranked 7th globally in 3G+ quality
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During the celebratory evening, Alfa announced 2016 to be the year of 4.5G. Alfa plans to equip and install 1300 4G+ stations covering the entire Lebanese territory as part of the 2020 plan launched...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Singapore sets rules for upcoming 4G services auction
IDA hopes to conduct the spectrum allocation exercise this year, with a total of 235 MHz of spectrum to be made available for mobile services... Read More
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South Asia
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- Pakistan media group to buy stake in telecoms service provider, WorldCall
WorldCall operates cable and digital TV service, EvDO, DSL, WLL and LDI service under various brands. Dunya Media Group, through this investment, hopes to secure an upcoming DTH license, which WorldCall’s cable business is contesting to win... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Zuku upgrades entire Kenyan cable network
The upgrade allows faster two-way high speed broadband content to be delivered to the home using a combination of fibre and coaxial cable. It currently has 2,100km of fibre... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- 5G needs to be secure from day one, urges SIMalliance
The alliance said security needs and vulnerabilities will differ according to the variety of different use cases and markets. 5G will offer low latency, wider and more reliable networks, and better handover across different network layers... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Yahoo to close down digital magazines
Yahoo Inc said on it would shut down its digital magazines as part of a plan to simplify its business and sharpen its focus on news, sports, finance and lifestyle... Read More
- Digital media adaptors market to reach 60 million units by 2019
Aggressive marketing by the likes of Apple and Google will drive the worldwide market for digital media adaptors... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Orange triples pay-TV subs in Spain
By the end of 2015, Orange TV reached 306,000 homes, driven by convergent offers through a growing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) network... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Axiata reveals investment strategies for 2016
Axiata Group’s 29.8 percent data growth was driven mainly by Smart, Robi6 and Dialog registering 86.2 percent, 78.9 percent and 62.7 percent growth, respectively... Read More
- GSMA’s remote SIM provisioning initiative gets specced
The specification is backed by operators including Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, chipset makers such as Qualcomm, and device manufacturers including Apple and Samsung... Read More
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