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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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April 17, 2016 |
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PTCL signs Fiber Leasing Agreement with Telenor Pakistan
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With cellular data expected to surge further in coming days thanks to 3G/4G regime, cellular operators are under immense pressure to upgrade their backhaul connectivity from radio to fiber...
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Huawei, Baidu build China's first T-SDN OTN
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The network uses Huawei's T-SDN bandwidth on demand capabilities to provide transmission pipes that allow Baidu to handle burst traffic between connected data centers...
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Policy and Regulation
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- India rules out retrospective tax on spectrum
The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) stated that payments for spectrum rights, whether upfront in full or in instalments, has been exempted from service tax... Read More
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South Asia
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- Banglalink inks infrastructure sharing agreement with Summit
The arrangement will strengthen its network by providing fibre redundancy in certain areas and improve network service availability for Banglalink subscribers... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Google launches digital skills training drive for 1 million African youth
To support the program, Google also launched an online-learning portal – digifyafrica.com– with a range of digital skills tutorials and courses, which will be available to anyone in Africa... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- T-Mobile Czech Republic adds 58 towns/cities to LTE-A footprint
T-Mobile was the first operator in the Czech Republic to launch commercial LTE-A in July 2014 by aggregating the 800MHz and 1800MHz bands. The 800MHz/1800MHz LTE-A technology is currently supported by 16 handsets... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Netflix reports lowest churn as fifth of US broadband households cancel OTT in 2015
About 5% of US broadband households indicated that they had unsubscribed from Amazon’s Prime Video service in 2015, a figure that represents 19% of those who claim to be current subscribers to Amazon Prime Video. 7% had cancelled a Hulu subscription in 2015... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Telefónica mulls launch of global content production house
Telefónica intends to use DTS, parent house of Canal+, which was acquired last year, as base to build up a more international content producer... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Nokia, Accenture form digital networks alliance
The alliance is based on the model of the Accenture Alcatel-Lucent Business Group, which was announced in September 2014. Now that Nokia has acquired Alcatel-Lucent, the group is being expanded and renamed... Read More
- Verizon leading Yahoo bidding
Verizon, with a market cap of roughly $210 billion and about $4.5 billion in cash on its balance sheet, has the means to purchase Yahoo's declining Web assets and a logical blueprint for folding them into its fledgling digital media business, which includes the AOL properties it acquired last year for $4.4 billion... Read More
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