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:.Daily News Briefing.:

July 21, 2016

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Members

  1. PTCL’s financial performance in half-year 2016 with 10% cash dividend
    Member Logo PTCL Group earned Rs. 58.96 billion revenue during the first half of 2016 whereas PTCL’s revenues were Rs. 36.2 billion during the period. DSL broadband revenues increased compared with same period last year...  Read More
  2. AT&T and Orange collaborate on open source and standardization initiatives for SDN
    Member Logo The companies are aligning on a strategic vision to move intelligence from customer hardware to the network, reducing cost and complexity. This effort will help the industry and business customers move faster towards a more agile, flexible and on-demand networking future...  Read More
  3. Ooredoo celebrates renaissance day with 100% bonus credit for prepaid customers
    Member Logo ‘Ooredoo Surprises’ is a special platform designed by Ooredoo to reward its customers with daily surprises including free calling minutes, low SMS tariffs, and bonus credit on their recharges...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. ACCC publishes consultation on nbn’s proposed Special Access Undertaking variation
    Feedback has been invited on the proposed variation to nbn’s Special Access Undertaking (SAU), which is a key part of the regulatory framework for governing prices and other terms upon which the company will supply services over the National Broadband Network (NBN) to retailers until 2040... Read More

South Asia

  1. Challenges for MVNOs to deliver quality in the south-asian market
    GSMA research, MVNOs largely operate in markets where mobile penetration is over 100 per cent because operators are looking at newer ways to attract new customers. India's market penetration stands at around 75 percent... Read More

Middle East

  1. Mideast digitization of governments services on the rise
    The UAE Smart Government is another initiative that will drive digitization of all essential services for its citizens and residents and will result in tremendous data growth... Read More

North Africa

  1. Smile begins voice service, pegs call rate at 8k/sec
    SmileVoice is an industry first with successful test calls made on October 28, 2015 and the commercial launch on March 8, 2016. The SmileVoice App is also the first 4GLTE voice App launched in the world... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Orange and Nokia set 1.5Tbps speed record with 870km Polish ‘super channel’
    The utilisation of six 250Gbps carriers, with electrical speeds 30 percent up on current technology, maximised the capacity whilst channel spacing remained in line with the 50GHz ITU-T grid... Read More
  2. Telecom Egypt in talks with banks over funds for 4G
    The sale of 4G licences is part of a long-awaited plan to reform Egyptian telecoms. The reforms will potentially allow Egypt's land-line monopoly, TE, which owns a 45 percent stake in Vodafone Egypt , to enter the mobile phone market directly... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Qubit.tv preps Latin American OTT expansion in 2017
    The Argentinian over-the-top (OTT) video platform, Qubit.tv, is eying growth opportunities in Latin America, and is now preparing launches in Peru, Chile, Costa Rica and Panama during 2017... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Asianet launches mobile TV app
    Mobile consumption has been tremendous and Asianet is poised to ride the big wave with Asianet Mobile TV+, offering services across the globe in entertainment and various other modules to the global audience... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Global NFV market to reach $15b by 2020: IHS Markit
    In 2020, only 11 % of NFV revenue will be attributable to new categories of software and services, while 16% will come from network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) — servers, storage, switches — acquired in place of purpose-built network hardware such as routers, deep packet inspection (DPI) products and firewalls... Read More

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