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:.Daily News Briefing.:

April 18, 2016

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  1. MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition supported by Community Jameel and Zain Group
    Member Logo MIT Enterprise Forum Pan Arab, in partnership with founding partner Community Jameel and the Zain Group, announced the winners of the MIT Enterprise Forum Arab Startup Competition from a total of 76 contesting teams from 15 Arab countries...  Read More
  2. Etisalat announced the launch of the Wasel Super50 Plan
    Member Logo Together with Etisalat’s nationwide 3G and 4G LTE network, the new plan will ensure a rich experience, both in terms of indoor and outdoor coverage and mobile data speeds of up to 300Mbps...  Read More
  3. du wins best Satellite Services Innovation of the Year Award
    Member Logo du’s media platform enables seamless content distribution over satellite through its Samacom Teleport, and Over The Top (OTT) through the datamena ICT hub. For the first time, Broadcasters can manage all of their distribution from one platform in the region...  Read More
  4. PCCW Global and Keppel T&T collaborate on an international carrier exchange in Hong Kong
    Member Logo The two companies will co-develop and market an international carrier exchange in Hong Kong, which offers connectivity-related managed services to facilitate interconnects...  Read More
  5. Turk Telekom, Nokia ink 5G, IoT MoU
    Member Logo TT will make its network infrastructure available to the vendor for real-time testing, and the companies will work together on trialling 5G and IoT technologies for tracking, metering, smart cities, smart home and latency-sensitive applications...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. Pakistan government approves proposals to auction 850MHz
    The government of Pakistan has approved proposals to auction unused spectrum in the 850MHz band ahead of the planned sale of the 1800MHz frequencies left over from the previous spectrum auction... Read More

South Asia

  1. Bay of Bengal Gateway launched
    The 100Gbps BBG cable connects Malaysia with Oman, with landing points in India, Sri Lanka and the UAE. Consortium members include India's Reliance Jio Infocomm, Malaysia's Dialog Axiata, Telekom Malaysia, Vodafone, the UAE's Etisalat and Omantel... Read More

Middle East

  1. Financial help to Saudize telecom sector
    Stores selling mobile communications devices will have to ensure that at least 50 percent of staff doing such work are Saudi citizens in three months' time, the ministry said. Six months from March, the required ratio will rise to 100 percent. This sector is expected to provide job opportunities to 20,000 Saudis... Read More

North Africa

  1. Etisalat Nigeria appoints new Directors
    These appointments reflect the fact that, as an organization, Etisalat remains committed to growing its people through careers that meaningfully build on experiences... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Viettel to roll out 3G-only network in Myanmar
    Vietnamese military-run operator Viettel has provided details of its plans for entering the Myanmar mobile market, including a goal of connecting 95% of the country's population within three years... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. NeuLion launches real time OTT dashboard
    The company believes that in a continually changing and fragmented digital landscape, the new OTT Dashboard will give its partners a single view of their digital service... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Verizon planning new IPTV set top box
    The set top would delivery traditional content and streaming video options using an entirely new interface from Verizon's existing QAM-based set tops... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Telstra sells stake in China's Autohome for $1.6 billion
    Telstra will retain a 6.5 percent interest in Autohome after completing the transaction. Completion of the sale is subject to Chinese regulatory approvals and Autohome board approval... Read More
  2. IBM collects $10.8 billion in cloud revenue
    The annual exit run rate for cloud delivered as a service -- a subset of the total cloud revenue -- increased to $5.4 billion from $3.8 billion in the first quarter of 2015... Read More

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