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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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March 1, 2016 |
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Members
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Zain Group becomes signatory to the GSMA’s Humanitarian Connectivity Charter
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Through the Charter, mobile network operators (MNOs) will commit to a common set of principles and work towards the adoption of initiatives focused on humanitarian connectivity...
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Cisco to buy cloud startup CliQr for USD 260 million
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CliQr provides an application-defined cloud orchestration platform to model, deploy and manage applications across bare metal, virtualised and container environments...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Govt expects billions from telecom spectrum bid in 2016 - 2017
The Telecom Regulatory of India gave its recommendation in January this year on auction for spectrum in various bands --including the premium 700 MHz for the first time, at a reserve price of Rs 11,485 crore per MHz... Read More
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South Asia
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- AWCC selects Cataleya for IP networking support
Afghan Wireless Communications Company's upgrade, which will initially be deployed in the capital before being extended to other cities, will be used to support the cellco’s migration to an all-IP infrastructure... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Vodacom abandons takeover of Neotel
The proposed acquisition of the majority of Neotel's assets was stopped after the companies were unable to obtain regulatory approval for the deal... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Omnitel implements LTE-A Pro technology with Huawei
With LTE-A Pro, data is transmitted by combining four different frequency bands, the latest signal encoding technologies and the four-channel transmission technology. Under laboratory conditions, LTE-A Pro can reach download speeds of almost 1Gbps... Read More
- Ericsson makes one of largest 4G LTE deals with Telenor Group
The transformation will improve network capacity and enhance mobile broadband experiences for dtac (4G/LTE), Grameenphone (2G/3G) and Telenor Myanmar (2G/3G) subscribers... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Asian regulations hamper growth of local pay-TV services
Pirate syndicates, operating outside all legal constraints, also deliver a lot of OTT content to many Asian markets. The governments should seek to stem the growth and proliferation of illegitimate OTT services... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- AT&T to offer DirecTV without the satellite dish
All three of the options are aimed at delivering DirecTV television content without the need to attach a satellite dish. It intends to offer customers a quality pay-TV experience, including top channels, sports and more, with increased value and flexibility of pure online streaming and no need for home installation... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- BT and Intel Security form partnership
The intention of the partnership is to offer better prevention and investigation of cyber attacks, and focus on integrated, open security systems with a cloud-first technology designed to empower organizations to resolve threats faster and with fewer resources... Read More
- Vivendi further raises stake in Telecom Italia to 23.8 percent
Vivendi received an 8.2 percent stake in Telecom Italia in June last year from Telefonica as part payment for selling its Brazilian broadband telecoms group GVT to Telefonica Brasil. Since then, it has gradually increased its stake in the Italian company... Read More
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