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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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August 15, 2016 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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Turkcell Group and Huawei sign MoU to activate the Customer Business Partnership Program
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Both operators and vendors continue to hunt for innovative business models and disruptive technologies to maintain their market leadership...
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Vestel joins SAMENA Council's membership
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Vestel is intent on becoming a part of the massive socio-economic progress taking shape in the Middle East and, given its technology expertise, which includes tablet and smartphone manufacturing, Vestel looks forward to providing new choices and possibilities to the industry within the Middle East and the greater SAMENA region...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Nigerian govt launches smart phone app for flood prediction
The application, which is available on Google app store, is a collaborative project of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI)... Read More
- EU: OTT players face telco-like regulation
The European Union is planning to extend telecom rules covering security and confidentiality of communications to web services such as Microsoft's Skype and Facebook's WhatsApp, which could restrict how they use encryption... Read More
- Spectrum auctions: DoT estimates just half of airwaves will be sold
According to internal estimates of the DoT, spectrum worth just 50 percent of the base price is expected to be picked up by the operators in this year’s auctions... Read More
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South Asia
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- Jio launch could be followed by the launch of SBI-RIL payments bank
Reliance-SBI payments bank launch will follow the commercial rollout of Jio. The plan is to leverage Jio's telecom network to offer services to its banking clients... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- SITA introduces fast, secure connectivity to leading African airline
Using SITA's common-use infrastructure eliminates the complexity of dealing with local telecom providers while enabling Kenya Airways to connect securely to their central systems and applications from any airport in the AirportHub network... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Ncell unveils new brand logo; expects to launch 4G in Nepal
Ncell has invested Rs 74 billion in 2G/3G GSM networks as part of its commitment to bring connectivity to the Nepali consumers. The company is looking forward to imminently receiving the 4G/LTE spectrum from the Nepal Telecommunications Authority in order to serve the community better... Read More
- 5G standards, spectrum and ecosystems leap forward this summer
The push for standards acceleration of 5G fixed wireless mode likely comes at the expense (delay) of Mobility and IoT/machine-to-machine (M2M) modes that will be part of a wider 5G specification. The mobility standard is expected in late 2018 commercial launch in 2020. The IoT modes are anticipated to follow mobility efforts... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- 4K OTT video to go mainstream in the next five years
The new research found that although YouTube, Netflix and Amazon already offer some 4K video, network providers have been waiting for a critical mass of content to become available before launching their own 4K offer... Read More
- Twitter in talks to add app to Apple TV
Introducing premium content like sports, politics and entertainment — the types of programming people often pay to see — would help attract and retain more Twitter users... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Google checks TV ads' impact during Olympic opener, mobile searches
The ads running on TV drove up mobile searches during the opening ceremony. During the opening ceremonies, TV ad-driven searches were almost exclusively on mobile—94% compared with an average of 56% for those brands when the ads were not airing, according to the Google data... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- 350 gigabit networks have been launched worldwide
Fiber is the most dominant gigabit technology, accounting for 85% of launched networks. Nearly all of the remainder, and 11% of the total, are based on HFC, while the final 3% are based on LTE-A... Read More
- App economy driving job growth
In the application economy, where every business is a software business, growing digital capabilities has become the key to staying competitive... Read More
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