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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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March 15, 2016 |
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Etisalat award a key cultural platform in children’s literature
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Etisalat’s objective from this initiative reflects the vision of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan declaring 2016 as the Year of Reading in the UAE...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Google to urge Congress to help get self-driving cars on roads
Major automakers and technology companies are racing to develop and sell vehicles that can drive themselves, but have complained that state and federal safety rules are impeding testing and ultimate deployment of such vehicles... Read More
- Nigeria mulls new tax on telecoms services
If enacted into law, the Communication Service Tax Bill (CST) 2015 will impose, charge and collect tax on services including voice calls, SMS, MMS, data and pay-TV, and will be borne by the customers... Read More
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South Asia
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- April launch for Bangladesh’s first satellite TV service
RealVU is a joint venture between Beximco and the Russian investment and industry holding company GS Group. It follows the award of a DTH licence by the Bangladesh Government in December 2013... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Telecom services giant, MainOne Nigeria, urges oil and gas firms to digitize operations
MainOne has urged forward-looking enterprises to gain competitive advantage by embracing digital transformation... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- China Mobile said to begin phasing out 3G base stations
Data from China Mobile show that as of October in 2014, the 3G network accounted for 23 percent of the firm's total data traffic and had 243 million customers. Meanwhile, the year-old TD-LTE network handled 39 percent of the data and had about 50 million users... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Uruguay: the first step in Telefónica's OTT expansion
The OTT platform, which works through LTE connections or any Wi-Fi network, is available for mobile devices and can be mirrored on a TV screen through Chromecast or AirPlay devices... Read More
- Airtel teams with Globe for VoIP roaming
This is a milestone in the regional telco landscape as two of the biggest telcos converge to give customers another innovative service that gives customers access to unlimited calling... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- du adds SPI’s content to its IPTV service
du’s IPTV service will offer SPI’s movie channel FilmBox; independent and world movie channel FilmBox Arthouse; sport channels FightBox HD and Fast’nFunBox HD; FashionBox HD; and independent music channel 360TuneBox HD... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- APAC third most expensive region for public cloud
The findings show that US pricing is the most competitive globally while users pay, on average, between 7% and 19% more to host the same application in Europe and 14% to 38% more in Asia-Pacific, depending on the complexity of the application... Read More
- Lenovo, Juniper enter data center alliance
As part of the partnership, customers will be able to purchase Juniper’s networking products directly from Lenovo for easier acquisition, as well as consolidated support... Read More
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