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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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June 8, 2016 |
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Omantel confirms landing of submarine cable system
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The third longest submarine cable in the world spanning approximately 25,000 kilometres, the AAE-1 is one of the first unique cable systems to connect 18 countries across Asia, Africa and Europe, all via Oman...
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Orange Business Services wins Henkel hybrid network, security deal
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OBS will combine multiple technologies including Business VPN Internet and a managed security solution that enables Henkel to apply real-time controls to respond to emerging threats...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Excessive regulation: Trai seeks powers to penalise telecom companies
In a letter written to the Department of Telecommunications (DoT), the regulator has suggested amendments in the Trai Act 1997 to include additional penalties, so that it may function as an effective regulator... Read More
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South Asia
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- Internet to all can create $1 trillion extra GDP
While 92 percent people in South Asia live in range of a 2G network, no more than 17 percent can afford a 500 MB monthly data plan. Two other regions – sub-Saharan Africa (11 percent) and Middle East and North Africa (17 percent) – are comparable to South Asia. In contrast, 94 percent of North Americans can afford such a data plan... Read More
- Operator to consider launch digital health initiative in Pakistan
Tonic is one of the first digital offerings to connect the dots across the healthcare ecosystem and address the full spectrum of wellness and healthcare needs through a mobile-based integrated digital service. If it succeeds in Bangladesh, it may be launched in Pakistan... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- State of digital payments in Morocco
Morocco has advantages that should make mobile money and payments more popular: a young population with an average age of 28; a bancarization rate within the world average of 64 percent; one of the most developed telecom infrastructures in Africa; and a remarkably high mobile penetration rate which is as high as 130 percent... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- IoT to form majority of IT spending by 2020
66 percent highlighted standards as being either crucial or significantly important in the adoption of the IoT services over the next couple of years. As part of the solution for solving the complexity of incorporating IoT, 76 percent of companies are either exclusively or primarily focusing on integrating legacy business systems with IoT solutions... Read More
- LTE subscriber numbers double to 1.29 billion in Q1
LTE gained 182 million connections in Q1, that's almost 4 times faster than 3G/HSPA systems, according to a report by the Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA)... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Visa pushes white label commerce app
The Visa Digital Commerce App enables card issuers to offer services such as real-time account balances, card control, alerts about recent transactions and fraud concerns, as well as tokenised contactless payments made via Android smartphones... Read More
- Will telecoms invest more to meet Facebook-driven data traffic
Strategy Analytics said Facebook properties alone account for 32 percent of the total time spent on mobile devices, with WhatsApp, generating 73 percent of the total time and 79 percent of the session share across all its properties... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- WOW! to deploy Evolution Digital’s eVUE IPTV platform
eVUE-TV will enable thousands of hours of video-on-demand programming, along with WOW!’s live channel line-up, all on one platform. WOW! will be the first operator to deploy eVUE-TV... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Vodafone gets 51% in $2.4 bn merger with Sky New Zealand
Vodafone NZ has more than 2.35 million mobile connections and more than 500,000 fixed-line connections in New Zealand. Sky has over 830,000 subscribers... Read More
- Nokia identifies top five reasons for mobile churn
The top five factors motivating the decision to select or leave operators are cost and billing, network quality, customer care and service and device portfolios, a global survey shows... Read More
- Mobile internet growth ‘more disruptive than industrial revolution’
The number of mobile internet connections already outnumber fixed connections by three to one, according to the report, and are projected to rise by over five billion to seven billion in the next five years. These figures differ from those of the GSMA, which says there are already 4.8 billion individual mobile subscribers... Read More
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