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:.Daily News Briefing.:

June 13, 2016

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  1. Batelco partners with Gulf Cooperation Council Interconnection Authority to launch BGN
    Member Logo Batelco Gulf Network (BGN) cable system runs over the GCCIA power grid and offers connectivity to all GCC countries, allowing Batelco to provide high bandwidth and capacity to customers and international carriers...  Read More
  2. Microsoft to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion; LinkedIn to keep the identity
    Member Logo After the deal, which will require approval from regulators in the United States, the European Union, Canada and Brazil, LinkedIn will become part of Microsoft's productivity and business processes unit...  Read More
  3. Syniverse optimizes roaming for Djibouti Telecom
    Member Logo The services offered through the agreement enable Djibouti Telecom to gain visibility into and manage its end-users’ experiences during roaming while protecting the network from fraud and controlling costs...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. Govt yet to pay $1.3 billion Vodafone sale shareholder contribution
    The world’s largest mobile group by revenue paid $900 million for a 70 percent stake in state-run Ghana telecom in 2008 while the government retained the remaining 30 percent with an enterprise value of around $1.3 billion at the time... Read More

South Asia

  1. Bharti Airtel, Singtel form secure high-speed data network to serve enterprises globally
    Bharti Airtel and Singapore Telecommunications Limited (Singtel) have combined resources into one network to form one of the largest Internet Protocol Virtual Private Networks (IP VPN) globally to deliver high-speed, secure data network coverage to enterprise customers in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the US... Read More

Middle East

  1. MEA tablet market share going to bigger smartphones
    The Middle East and Africa (MEA) tablet market is expected to decline for the third quarter in a row as consumers are reluctant to replace their existing devices and majority of the tasks that were previously performed on tablets have now shifted to bigger smartphones... Read More

North Africa

  1. Vodacom and Huawei test Africa’s first 1Gbps network
    The deployed network has a natural evolution path and can be software upgraded to a fully LBT (Listen Before Talk) compliant solution, known as LAA (License Assisted Access), which will be finalized in the 3GPP Release 13 specifications. Standard LAA within the 3GPP standards process will ensure fair share use among the multiple users and technologies (e.g. Wi-Fi) that access the unlicensed bands... Read More
  2. Bank of Khartoum to buy Etisalat's stake in Sudan's Canar
    Sudan's Bank of Khartoum has agreed to buy Abu Dhabi-listed Etisalat Group's 92.3 percent shareholding in Sudanese fixed line operator Canar for 349.6 million dirhams ($95.2 million)... Read More
  3. Tunisie Telecom offers to buy GO shares at €2.87 per share
    Tunisie Telecom believes that the proposed transaction presents the group with the opportunity to create a strong trans-Mediterranean telecoms partnership which will support GO’s growth opportunities in its domestic market... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. DOCOMO, Ericsson complete Dynamic 5G Network Slicing PoC
    Network slicing technology virtually partitions a physical network into multiple co-existing logical networks in order to provide the most suitable resources and network topology to different types of services... Read More
  2. China Mobile signs up to $1.5 billion BTS deal with Nokia
    With the deal China Mobile has become the first operator to announce plans to deploy Nokia's 5G-ready AirScale base stations, which allow multiple radio technologies to operate simultaneously in one base station... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Instagram attracting more advertising than Twitter
    Sixty-three percent of advertisers said they were most likely to use photo-sharing app Instagram, compared with 56 percent who said they would use social network Twitter... Read More
  2. Yahoo to shut its old Messenger App on August 5
    The company has asked all its users to move to the new version of the Messenger, introduced last year... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Apple launches pay-TV single sign-on
    The new functionality will mean that once a user is signed into an Apple network app, any other such application on Apple TV (from participating pay-TV providers) will automatically log the user in to all other supported apps requiring authentication... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Verizon, KDDI sign agreement that gives customers VoLTE roaming while abroad
    Verizon is the first U.S. wireless company to offer foreign travelers VoLTE service while in the U.S. KDDI customers who visit the U.S. will have superior quality communications with family and friends, simply by using their VoLTE-roaming compatible phones... Read More

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