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:.Daily News Briefing.:

March 23, 2016

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  1. Omantel's fibre-optic cable set to revolutionise telecom in East Africa
    Member Logo The operator has joined in a consortium with several East African telecommunications providers to lay the Gulf to Africa (G2A) undersea fibre-optic cable, scheduled for completion by the end of 2016, and will comprise 1,500km subsea segment and a 1,500km terrestrial segment with a capacity 20Tbits...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. Strong xDSL user growth in Lebanon due to government strategy; fibre access rollout begins
    The current installation of fibre-optics is part of the 2020 strategy the government launched in July 2015; under that plan, fibre-optic networks are to be installed in Lebanon progressively over five years and the country ‘totally connected’ with fibre by 2020... Read More
  2. All internet apps to fall under data pricing rule in India
    All content that is available on the internet falls under the new regulation, but any content that isn't on the web, wont be governed by the rule... Read More

South Asia

  1. Google launches Street View in Sri Lanka
    With addition of Sri Lanka, Street View is now available in 76 countries, including the US, Japan and South Korea. Street View allows users to see how a city or a place looks like in real. Using cars and bikes fitted with cameras to collect imagery, Google collects and stitches the photos accumulated together... Read More

Middle East

  1. Selling towers may allow operators to reduce capex and opex
    Telecoms operators are increasingly keen to dispose of towers that now provide little competitive advantage due to broadly similar network quality and coverage, although no such deals have been completed in the Middle East yet... Read More

North Africa

  1. Investors in data centers in Africa heading to Monaco for first ever summit
    The emergence of carrier neutral data centres and IP peering exchanges will spur hosting and cloud growth over the next 24 months in several countries across Africa... Read More
  2. MTN Uganda plans mobile data push
    While voice services still account for the bulk of the operator’s sales, bringing in 56% of its $386 million turnover in 2015, mobile data is the fastest growing segment... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Smile Telecom takes Voice LTE service to Nigerian cities
    The operator which operates on the 800MHz band designated as Digital Dividend Spectrum by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) unveiled SmileVoice and SmileUnlimited, two 4G LTE innovations to its customers in Nigeria... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. OTT app advertising to reach $44 billion by 2020
    The research found that social apps are beginning to incorporate a wide range of capabilities beyond their core function as peer-to-peer communications tools. This trend has been highlighted by apps such as WeChat in China, while Facebook Messenger has recently partnered with Uber to deliver ride hiring services... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Global VOD becomes a daily viewing habit
    Consumers are taking to the convenience and personalised benefits offered by on-demand programme viewing and that VOD is fast becoming a part of daily viewing habits for many around the world... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. 22 most important big data technologies
    A majority of big data technologies are in the growth or survival phases, meaning that they have reached a state of deployment in the market... Read More
  2. Vietnam's telco giant MobiFone to divest from banks
    MobiFone's plans for reducing its investment in the financial sector are in line with the government's order for state-owned enterprises to divest from non-core businesses. The order is part of the government's ongoing efforts to restructure the state sector... Read More

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