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:.Daily News Briefing.:

February 23, 2016

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Members

  1. Omantel to deploy Huawei Smart Lamppost solutions
    Member Logo Apart from allowing Omantel to enhance its voice and data coverage including mobile data and Wi-Fi in order to improve the services rendered to customers, the smart street lampposts have the flexibility to be integrated...  Read More
  2. du partners with Huawei to transform its traditional network into a more efficient T-SDN network
    Member Logo Huawei and UAE-based telecommunications service provider du have jointly launched the world's first commercial Transport Software-Defined Network (T-SDN) on the host network...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. EU to develop 5G action plan by year-end
    The EU will form a 5G Action Plan by the end of this year, in order to ensure it capitalises on the opportunities of the new mobile technology and does not repeat the "failure" of 4G, European Commissioner for the Digital Economy and Society announced... Read More
  2. CITC Saudi adopts new guidelines on interconnection, access to physical facilities
    The updated Guidelines for Access to Physical Facilities establish new rules governing access to physical facilities, including collocation and sharing of physical facilities; provide a framework for access to physical facilities and networks in a technologically neutral manner; foster investment in and deployment of next generation networks (NGN); and establish a process for dealing with access disputes... Read More

South Asia

  1. Norway's Telenor in talks to expand India presence
    Telenor is a relatively small player in India with 2G airwaves in seven circles. It needs to expand and boost data spectrum holdings to stay relevant... Read More

Middle East

  1. KSA mobile subscribers reach 53 million
    The number of subscription to fixed telecom lines dropped during the last three years due to competition from mobile telecom services, which led to the cancelation of many fixed phone lines by subscribers to be replaced by mobile telecom services... Read More
  2. Mideast telecoms to support $164b IoT market by 2018
    In the Middle East, 2016 is the tipping point for telecoms to adopt the real-time Big Data analytics that will form the foundation for digitization... Read More
  3. Mobile money goes live in Iraq with Zain Cash
    Through Zain Cash, customers can have a mobile wallet linked to their SIM card, enabling customers to make financial transactions easily and at any time... Read More

North Africa

  1. ICTs marked as levers for intra-regional trade in Africa
    More than 70 experts from Central African States, the African Union Commission, the Secretariat General of ECCAS, the CEMAC Commission and UN specialised agencies are participating in the brainstorming that will culminate in the adoption of an ECA report on using ICTs... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Indosat Ooredoo targets 16 new cities in 4G expansion
    Indosat Ooredoo is also aiming to improve network efficiency through infrastructure sharing once the Ministry for Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) publishes the necessary regulation on the matter... Read More
  2. 5G mobile technology lessons from MWC 2016
    A recent report from GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) predicts that there will be more than 270 5G networks by 2025. There are no statistics available on the investment required for building the telecom infrastructure for 5G... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Ericsson, Google launch OTT Cloud Connect service for mobile operators
    This will bring simplicity to collaboration between OTTs and operators, making it possible to offer unique application-specific features to end users for better experiences... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. South Korea’s IPTV base rises 16.8% in 2015
    It is estimated that IPTV customers will surpass the 13 million level in March 2016, given the average growth of 150,000 per month... Read More
  2. Reliance Jio to unveil VOD, live services
    When launched, Jio On Demand will follow the new company’s social networking service Jio Chat to market as well as the soon-to-launch Jio Money, a digital wallet service... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Telecoms join to drive drones for network quality
    Industry sectors, including healthcare, logistics, agriculture, news and entertainment are embracing the benefits of drones, but managing UAV growth is a challenge for governments and aviation authorities... Read More

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