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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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March 27, 2016 |
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Etisalat AGM approves full-year 2015 dividends of 80 fils per share
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Etisalat’s net profit after Federal Royalty reached AED 8.3 billion, resulting in a net profit margin of 16%. Furthermore, consolidated EBITDA totaled AED 26.5 billion for 2015, resulting in EBITDA margin of 51%, up 3% on 2014...
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Turkcell completes LTE-A network upgrade ahead of schedule
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The operator will offer peak download speeds of 390MBps in the city of Samsun, with Adana (321MBps), Izmir (347MBps), Istanbul (350MBps), and Erzurum (354MBps) are the next fastest cities...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Gulf states to slash roaming fees across GCC by 40 pct from April 1
Last June, GCC members Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates announced the GCC would steadily reduce charges from April but did not specify by how much... Read More
- Myanmar picks Viettel for fourth telecom licence
The tender selection for the 15-year telecom licence comes just days before an army-backed government is scheduled to cede power to the first civilian administration in decades... Read More
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South Asia
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- Reliance Jio may delay highly anticipated launch
An early launch would limit the mass-market appeal of the operator, which would make for a poor first impression, as less than 15% of the handsets currently sold in India support both the 850-MHz band and VoLTE... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Telecom operator identifies factors to achieving full financial inclusion in Africa
The factors include interoperability of standards for money exchange across operators, agents and products, agent/ merchant distribution network that accepts and processes clients’ transactions, technology platform or avenue by which digital financial services are being provided to the target customers and product variety which addresses key points and creates value in the community... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Airtel Kenya plans 4G launch by year-end
The coverage of Airtel’s 3G network, which was launched in February 2012, has been increased to 75% of the population... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Brazil's OTT services not regarded as competition to pay-TV
Although it seem there are no signs of cord-cutting, Brazil already has one of the most diversified offerings of OTT video platforms in Latin America... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Net Insight joins AIMS consortium to help transition to an IP-based TV content solutions
Aiming to bolster what it says is its position in helping the broadcast industry to transition to an IP-based footing, interactive and on-demand media transport firm Net Insight has joined the Alliance for IP Media Solutions... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- HDS launches churn-predicting software
The solution gives telecom and media service providers insight into customer behavior with predictive scoring for real-time decision making... Read More
- Three promises to get mobile coverage to rural areas if merger with O2 gets the go-ahead
O2 and Three are the second and the fourth largest mobile network operators in the UK, but combined they would become the biggest in the market, with 31million customers... Read More
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