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:.Daily News Briefing.:

August 10, 2016

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  1. Etisalat completes sale of Sudanese telco Canar
    Member Logo Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) has announced the completion of the sale of its 92.3% stake in Sudanese fixed line operator Canar Telecommunication Company (Canar) to the Bank of Khartoum...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. Qatar stimulates TMT sector growth
    Although the application of some of initiatives may face practical challenges, they reflect Qatar's vision to support the development of its economy and infrastructure and to develop the sectors including technology, media and telecommunications... Read More

South Asia

  1. Etisalat Lanka offers more data at any time of the day
    Customers now have the opportunity of using data at any time of the day, minus the earlier limitation of data access only at day time or night time... Read More

Middle East

  1. Cybercrime hit 6.5 million in KSA last year
    With an increasing number of individuals connected and using mobile devices, cyber threats are becoming ever present among all age groups as one in four consumers have had their mobile device stolen... Read More

North Africa

  1. Huawei unveils its strategy for MBB connectivity opportunities in Africa
    Africa has experienced a massive boom in mobile phone access with more than 500 million mobile phones now active across the continent... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Openreach to begin expanded LR-VDSL trial
    LR-VDSL could be used to deliver the UK’s proposed 10Mbps Universal Service Obligation (USO), while also possibly allowing for the expansion of 24Mbps+ coverage... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Facebook moves to circumvent ad blockers
    Desktop users using ad blocking software will now be able to see ads nonetheless. It can do this because the ads are housed in the company’s own ecosystem... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. BCE plans wireless IPTV launch
    This is the first fully wireless IPTV service available globally. The company says this will reduce installation time to 30 minutes and give customers greater flexibility with where to place the box at home... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Telstra to invest $2.3 billion to improve the customer experience
    Telstra had already committed A$50 million towards installing new monitoring equipment and improving the capacity of its mobile network to handle large volumes of simultaneous re-registrations... Read More
  2. Broadband Forum defines NFV residential gateway
    NFV-based residential gateways will allow operators to provision new services centrally from cloud infrastructures, eliminating the requirement to provision and attach new services directly to the gateways... Read More

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