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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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April 23, 2016 |
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Omantel lauds Marseille aid in colossal cable project
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With the project’s “landing,” the top telecom provider for the sultanate has created a significant shortcut between Europe and the Far Eastern nations. The completed submerging of the 25,000-km cable system in Marseille, France, will successfully connect Hong Kong to Singapore, Africa and Europe, all via Oman...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Govt. claims 64% of call drops are attributable to telecom companies in India
The operators have argued that call drops are often outside of their control, and that having to pay compensation to users for call drops will have a significant detrimental financial impact... Read More
- Nigeria regulator deems renewable energy key to quality telecoms service delivery
Erratic power supply has not only contributed to poor service delivery but has also increased operational costs for telecoms operators... Read More
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South Asia
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- Airtel may sell 5% stake in Bharti Infratel
At the current market capitalization of the publicly-listed Bharti Infratel, a 5% stake could be worth nearly $558.3 million... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Liquid Telecom and Liquid Sea to participate at International Telecoms Week (ITW) 2016
The Liquid Sea project is a new subsea cable running the length of Africa’s east coast with onwards connectivity to Europe. The team will be generating interest and support for the new project at ITW... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- 5G, cloud investments needed to meet data demands
Bell Labs Consulting models show that by 2020, 67% of the worldwide consumption demand forecast can be met by Wi-Fi. Another 14% can be addressed by the current adoption rate of 3G, LTE, small cells and the emergence of new technologies such as 5G... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Akamai opens broadcast control center
The facility is designed to help ensure the reliability of over-the-top (OTT) services through a combination of technical staff and a host of monitoring, analytics, reporting, quality and availability measurement tools... Read More
- Viber offers users more control over their communications
One of the world’s leading messaging apps with more than 711 million unique users worldwide, has announced complete end-to-end encryption across all devices including Android and iPhone, iPad, Android tablets, PC and Mac desktops... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Sky expands reach of full HD Italian IPTV offer
Video compression technology has been recognised as key to helping Sky in Italy halve the HD bandwidth of its full HD IPTV service... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Mobile games market forecast to grow 21% this year
APAC continues to dominate worldwide, accounting for 46.6 percent of the market and up 10.7 percent on 2015. China alone accounts for one quarter of all global game revenues, followed by the US with $23.5 billion... Read More
- AT&T offering $5 internet to low-income families
Any home where at least one person receives food stamps will be eligible for the new program, called Access from AT&T. The offering is part of an agreement AT&T (T, Tech30) made with the FCC as part of last year's DirectTV merger and will be available until 2020... Read More
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