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:.Daily News Briefing.:

April 4, 2016

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	1.	Announcement of Telecom Leaders' Summit 2016; Ten-year Anniversary Celebration to corroborate SAMENA Telecommunications Council’s stance on digital economic development and better connected world
			SAMENA Council has confirmed the presence of leading telecom CEOs across the EMEA region, and various industry figures, globally-known to be actively pursuing digital development and societal transformation... Read More

	2.	Caring for the environment: Batelco starts beach cleaning campaign
			Batelco is very keen to support the environment and over recent years has introduced a number of green initiatives... Read More

	3.	Ooredoo offers free WhatsApp with More Credit Recharge and new welcome packs
			Customers are at the heart of everything and their views on services and offers play a key role in the promotions provided... Read More

	4.	TV.AE trusts du and Akamai Technologies to deliver first-class OTT services
			du and Akamai are joining efforts to build a safe, scalable and flexible media delivery Platform for TV.AE and help the streaming service meet user expectations in a cost effective way... Read More

	5.	Huawei leads global ICT innovation through patents and integrated partnerships
			Additional to WIPO’s ranking, this month’s Subscriber Data Management (SDM) market survey published by Frost & Sullivan placed Huawei at the top in the SDM market for 2015, with a global share of 30%... Read More

	6.	Turkcell officially launches 4.5G in Turkey
			Turkcell had announced the readiness of its network for 4.5G services at a press conference held simultaneously in 5 cities on March 22nd. Download speeds of up to 390 Mbps were achieved at the speed tests carried out during that press conference... Read More

Policy and Regulation

African regulators to harmonise roaming
The West African Telecommunications Regulatory Assembly (WATRA) said it is working towards harmonising the roaming activities and guidelines are already being developed for a seamless interconnection and roaming of telephone users in the West African sub-region... Read More
FCC to boost transparency with "Nutrition Labels" for broadband
The rules still need further approval from the Office of Management and Budget but would require companies to make more specific disclosures about their services and fees... Read More

South Asia

Ooredoo Maldives relocates submarine cable landing
Ooredoo is currently working on establishing a nationwide submarine cable, from the north to south of the Maldives, in order to provide high-speed broadband internet services across the nation... Read More

Middle East

Technology startup sector in MENA grows by ten-fold
The technology entrepreneur sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has grown by over 10-fold since the nascent venture capital industry emerged four years ago. Hundreds of quality tech startup are coming online in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon... Read More
Vodafone launches WiFi as service for business
Powered by a centralized authentication and web traffic analysis platform, the service provides a rich set of features including a customized landing page, and wide range of end user authentication methods... Read More

North Africa

Lack of access to national power grids affecting telecom quality of service
Governments need to give telecom operators uninhibited access to the national grid. LTE operator and internet service providers have remained the largest consumers of diesel in Nigeria. Only about 10 to 15 percent of base transceiver stations are connected to the electric power grids... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

Tunisian cellular trio begin 4G LTE marketing
Upon receiving their 4G spectrum licences on 30 March 2016, Tunisia’s three mobile network operators Tunisie Telecom (TT), Ooredoo Tunisia and Orange Tunisia, have all begun marketing their 4G LTE services to consumers... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

OTT continues European growth
The number of paid subscriptions in Europe is also significantly lower than that in North America, with 30 per cent of broadband households in the UK and 17 per cent in France holding subscriptions to OTT content, in comparison with 64 per cent in the US... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

Argentina’s pay-TV sector tops penetration rates in LATAM
The Clarin group-owned company owns four in ten subscriptions across the country, followed by AT&T’s DirecTV with 27% and Telecentro (7%)... Read More

Global Telecom Update

AT&T Eyes G.Fast to deliver 300 Mbps to apartments
G.fast may be the latest and greatest way to speed up DSL, though it would be restricted to shorter loop lengths of between 300 and 820 feet... Read More
Oracle aims to remove cloud adoption barriers
While organizations are eager to move their enterprise workloads to the public cloud, many have been constrained by business, legislative and regulatory requirements that have prevented them from being able to adopt the technology... Read More
Malaysia's Platinum Core deploys mobile fronthaul
The new network is being designed to provide a wholesale offering that spans from a customer's central office locations to a shared tower facility, and support multiple operators using the same infrastructure... Read More

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