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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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August 14, 2016 |
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PCCW takes equity in STX to offer unique content across Asia
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The new alliance represents an important milestone in expanding PCCW's strategic investments into compelling content creation...
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Microsoft launches UK, Italy carrier billing
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OS app stores are predicted to be the largest revenue-generating segment for carrier billing by 2017. Windows 10 is seeing steady growth globally, having already been installed on more than 350 million devices...
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Careem inks first partner deal with etisalat
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allows the company’s customers to pay for car rides using etisalat’s reward points or choose to earn Etisalat Reward points as they use Careem services...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Uganda taxman mulls introducing tax on internet data
The body is planning to introduce tax on internet data as it had noticed a considerable drop in revenue collected from excise duty on voice calls... Read More
- Kazakhstan to tax operations on Google, Apple platforms
The legal amendment is expected to be adopted in the fall. A similar tax was earlier introduced in Russia... Read More
- EU moves to tighten rules for WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Skype
Large telecom companies across the Union such as Telefónica in Spain and Orange in France and companies in the UK have been calling for these regulatory changes for years... Read More
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South Asia
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- Telenor Pakistan launches 4G services
Telenor Pakistan was the only bidder for 4G spectrum during a recent auction of a 10 MHz block in the 850-MHz band. The operator secured the spectrum for $395 million... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Etisalat Nigeria and YuuZoo Singapore launch SME e-commerce portal
SME merchants can choose to open a store and sell their products in the online marketplace with support for delivery, and list their businesses on the portal for free through the directory... Read More
- Telecom Egypt reports strong second quarter as net profit surges 175%
Having primarily been driven by higher total turnover and improved income from investments, TE’s consolidated net profit after tax for Q2 2016 was EGP1.039 billion, a 175% increase against the EGP378 million recorded a year earlier... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Number of VoLTE operators may touch 100 by 2016
738 operators are investing in LTE across 194 countries. This figure comprises 708 firm network deployment commitments in 188 countries (of which 521 networks have launched)... Read More
- Surge in LTE-U to drive indoor small cells market to $1.8 billion by 2021
LTE-U enables the use of unlicensed spectrum as a capacity booster, anchored to a carrier in a licensed band. It builds to a large extent on the 3GPP’s release 10 on carrier aggregation, and will address markets in most need of additional spectrum... Read More
- SKT, Verizon to collaborate on 5G specifications
The two incumbent operators will jointly develop 5G technical specifications and conduct joint research into potential innovative 5G use cases... Read More
- Ukrainian operator lifecell world's first to reach 1.5Gbps over five band LTE Advanced Pro
With 100% stake owned by Turkcell, lifecell was also the first Operator to launch 3G+ technology with the 3-Carrier HSDPA expansion that reached the maximum download speeds of 63.3 Mbit/s... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- OTT in China: Viewership grows more quickly than expected
Apart from providing advertisers with more ad channels, the strongest suit of OTT content is its delivery of tailor-made communication and interaction with individual viewers... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- SaaS migration places video software market at ‘significant’ inflection point
Multiscreen services have largely migrated to SaaS business models, while operators still have some resistance to migrating traditional set-top box middleware software licences to SaaS... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Taiwan’s first Internet of Things alliance
The alliance, named “IoT by GT,” aims at creating an integrated IoT system that joins together academics, chip manufacturers, network developers, and application suppliers among others — players on different levels of a wide IoT ecology... Read More
- Mobile service providers move to cut roaming charges in China
The chinese carriers' moves followed an announcement by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) in April, which urged the three major telecom service providers to pursue the marketization of telecom fees and accelerate the pace of abolishing roaming charges... Read More
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