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:.Daily News Briefing.:

June 12, 2016

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  1. Batelco first telco in the region to achieve the new ISO 9001:2015
    Member Logo Batelco successfully completed the certification audit to the newly revised ISO 9001:2015 Standard on March 30 surpassing the internationally agreed 3-year transition period...  Read More
  2. Zain Group hosts successful Talent Acquisition Summit in collaboration with LinkedIn
    Member Logo The first of its kind Summit in the region undertaken by LinkedIn was attended by recruiters and talent management teams from Zain Group’s operating companies and falls in line with the operator’s Employer Value Proposition and its ‘Together, we are Resourcing’ and ‘Together, we are Connecting’ engagements...  Read More
  3. Orange Business Services accelerates cloud services in Business VPN Galerie with Riverbed technology
    Member Logo The service boosts the performance of all major cloud services in Business VPN Galerie over enterprise customers' VPNs...  Read More
  4. Microsoft to continue building the ecosystem
    Member Logo Microsoft is gaining ground on cloud platform but its future is totally dependent on success of its ‘Conversation as a platform’ bot framework. It differs from other AI majors by creating a platform rather than a product. Microsoft wants developers to again use its framework to build their own conversational bots...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. TRAI changes norms in accounting separate regulations
    According to the new changes made in accounting separate regulations 2016 yesterday, the operators will be liable to merge the access service (full mobility) and access service (WLL) as access service (wireless)... Read More

South Asia

  1. Anil Ambani-led RCOM and Aircel may complete $6 billion merger by July
    The merger should help the two improve revenue market share, deleverage balance sheets, optimise spectrum usage and streamline opex and capex synergies. For the last three years, the two have had infrastructure-sharing agreements. They can also leverage the 4G network of Reliance Jio... Read More

Middle East

  1. Qatar's commercial sector to spend $2.8 billion on ICT by 2019
    The total ICT spending by the country's commercial sector stood at $1.9bn in 2015, according to "Qatar's ICT Landscape 2016: Business"... Read More

North Africa

  1. Why MTN will rebound after the billion-dollar settlement with regulator
    Besides the company’s high profitability profile, industry analysts note that MTN Nigeria has the prospect of even growing bigger following its new business frontiers with the 2.6 GHz licence it got from NCC to stream TV content... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Norwegian operator granted $395 million 4G licence in Pakistan
    In 2014, Pakistan auctioned its first 4G broadband licence to China’s Zong for $210 million, along with 3G licenses to Zong, the UAE’s Warid, and Pakistan’s domestic Mobilink. The total raised in the auction was $1.2 billion... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Verizon, AT&T set to make final round of bids for Yahoo web assets
    A sale of Yahoo's internet assets would leave the company just owning a 35.5 percent stake in Yahoo Japan Corp, as well as a 15 percent stake in Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, which accounts for most of its value... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Eight billion connected devices globally boost video
    The proliferation of media-enabled connected endpoints has implications for media consumption, media production, broadband infrastructure and the business itself of network management and traffic discrimination... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. How Virtual Reality has turned into an empowering agent
    Sweden furniture retailer Ikea AB is using virtual reality (VR) as its primary strategy for innovating new products and manage safety for the future of its customers... Read More
  2. Big leap for rural broadband speeds, connections in New Zealand
    The average connection speed for rural New Zealand is currently 13.8 Mbps, an increase of 148 per cent from 5.6 Mbps before the Rural Broadband Initiative... Read More
  3. Docomo and Huawei sign patent licensing deal
    The Japanese telecom operator has awarded patent licences to more than ten companies and plans to grant such licences to other companies in the future... Read More

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