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:.Daily News Briefing.:

April 25, 2016

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Members

  1. Orange Jordan to deliver ICFLIX VOD service
    Member Logo Orange Jordan customers will be offered one month’s unlimited streaming if they take out a subscription to the Dubai-based video-on-demand (VOD) service...  Read More
  2. Zain Group generated revenues of $919 million and recorded net income of $124 million for Q1
    Member Logo Substantial investments in 3G and 4G LTE network expansion and upgrades continue to pay off as Group data revenues (excluding SMS and VAS) grow 8% Y-o-Y, representing 21% of the Group’s consolidated revenues...  Read More
  3. Microsoft's one-handed texting app now available on iOS
    Member Logo The idea behind the app is that users will be able to type fast and mistake-free, using just their thumb if they wish...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. DoT India clears path for spectrum liberalisation
    Under the terms of the guidelines, the most recent reserve price set by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) will be taken as a provisional price for liberalisation, with the difference to be paid once a market price has been determined by auction... Read More
  2. Act reduces Thai regulator’s autonomy; DTAC abstains from 900MHz re-auction
    Thailand’s military-backed cabinet has approved a law which hands control of the formerly independent telecoms regulator to the new Digital Economy Commission chaired by the Prime Minister... Read More

South Asia

  1. SLT Mobitel launches Cash Bonanza programme
    This makes history as the largest prize giveaway undertaken by a Telecom Operator in Sri Lanka. Mobitel Pre-paid, Post-Paid and Broadband customers are eligible to win other prizes through the Mobitel Cash Bonanza draw... Read More

Middle East

  1. Digital fluency to bolster Saudi female workforce
    If governments and businesses can double the pace at which women become digitally fluent, gender equality could be achieved in 25 years in developed nations, versus 50 years at the current pace... Read More
  2. MTN Irancell considering expansion into fixed market
    Irancell, which is 49% owned by MTN Group, currently limits its activities to the country’s mobile market, where it is the second largest operator behind state-owned Mobile Communication Company of Iran (MCI)... Read More

North Africa

  1. MainOne leads drive to enhance Africa’s cable assets
    The submarine cable industry has greatly changed over the past few years. Following a multi-year construction drought, systems are being upgraded and new systems are being announced in many regions of the world... Read More
  2. Vodafone M-Pesa reaches 25 million customer milestone
    M-Pesa, which is aimed at the unbanked market, is now available in 11 countries across Africa, Asia and Europe. Launched by Kenya’s Safaricom nine years ago, it is supported by a network of more than 261,000 agents... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Reliance Jio to launch commercial 4G LTE in the coming months
    Reliance Jio Infocomm said it has signed up half a million customers to the trial version of its pan-India LTE service... Read More
  2. EE pledges to extend 4G coverage to 95% of UK landmass by 2020
    EE, recently acquired by BT, pledged to cover 95 percent of the UK landmass with its 4G network by 2020 in an effort to reduce the number of mobile broadband "not spots" around the country... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Google in talks to offer its OnHub routers to ISPs
    Google could find success in hardware deal negotiations with smaller US ISPs, or some international ISPs that don't see Google as direct competition as a major alternative services provider... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Mobile app revenue to grow 2.2 times to $79 billion in 2020
    Downloads will see a slowdown in mature smartphone markets as they approach saturation and as user acquisition costs escalate, placing a greater emphasis on download quality rather than quantity... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Verizon claims largest NFV OpenStack cloud deployment
    The operator claims to have completed the industry’s largest known network functions virtualization OpenStack cloud deployment across five of its U.S. data centers. Verizon last year announced SDN plans with five vendors: Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Ericsson, Juniper Networks and Nokia Networks... Read More
  2. 42% of UK mobile users don’t trust NFC mobile payments
    Mobile users are more likely to say that this activity is not at all secure (24%) than say it is completely secure (10%)... Read More

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