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:.Daily News Briefing.:

August 16, 2016

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  1. Saudi Telecom's mobile brand Jawwy offers personalized management of services
    Member Logo Carriers around the world are focusing on how best they can meet their customer needs and bring relevance to their consumers. One such example is Saudi Telecom Company (STC), which has launched Jawwy to permit customers to build, share and manage their plan in real-time...  Read More
  2. Sudatel's youth network initiative (AYWA) sponsors one of the youngest participants in the Olympics
    Member Logo The initiative offers special services, offers and ways of communication, adapted to the youth lifestyle in order to bring positive energy into youth communities...  Read More
  3. Ooredoo Oman to further invest millions on network expansion
    Member Logo Ooredoo has seen a growth rate of 3.2 per cent in terms of overall customer base, helping it to reach almost 3 million customers this year; mobile customers growing at about 2.5 per cent, fixed customers by almost 34 per cent, mobile broadband by 8 per cent and data revenues have grown to become more than 50 per cent of total revenues...  Read More

Policy and Regulation

  1. US to cede control of DNS system to Icann from October
    The US first agreed in early 2014 to cede control of the internet domain management organisation under pressure from other countries that claimed the US exerted too much control over the global internet... Read More
  2. EU formulating proposal for 25-year mobile licences across Europe
    The EC has made no secret of its desire to forge a single European telecoms market in recent years and telcos have also called for greater EU coordination of spectrum policy... Read More

South Asia

  1. CityCell faces shutdown in Bangladesh
    CityCell – part-owned by Singtel of Singapore – had been issued a final warning to pay all its dues worth $60.7 million)... Read More

Middle East

  1. Dubai Future Accelerators ranked world's most attractive business acceleration programme
    Applications received by the programme concentrated on modern technologies, such as the use of bio-materials in 3D printing, as well as the use of nanotechnology, ICTs, wireless electrical networks, and the production of electrical energy from floor tiles in a bid to reduce water energy consumption... Read More

North Africa

  1. Safaricom eyes a larger market for international money transfers
    Safaricom has partnered with several international money transfer firms such as Western Union, Money Gram, BICS, Vodacom and MTN to allow cross border money transfers... Read More

3G, 4G & Beyond

  1. Egypt to set final 4G licence terms
    The regulator gave the companies until the first week of August to submit responses but only received a response from Telecom Egypt... Read More
  2. Ooredoo Myanmar reaches 500,000 LTE subs
    4G ambitions will be dependent on the acquisition of more mobile spectrum. The government plans to auction 40 MHz in the 2600-MHz band in mid-October and to auction 1800-MHz spectrum by the end of the year... Read More

OTT, Alternative Telecom

  1. Ooyala debuts out-of-the-box OTT monetisation
    Ooyala AppStudio enables customers to launch, manage and monetise new OTT offerings. It’s meant to mitigate the expensive custom development and integration costs typically associated with OTT market entry... Read More

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

  1. Change.org partners with Wochit on social video
    The deal is part of Change.org’s strategy to increase social impact by leveraging online video’s ability to drive higher engagement and build stronger emotional connections with the platform’s 150 million users around the world... Read More

Global Telecom Update

  1. Singtel said to plan to increase stake in AIS
    Singtel and AIS previously held discussions regarding the Singaporean group increasing its stake in the Thai operator in 2014, but the negotiations were put on hold due to political and economic instability in Thailand... Read More
  2. Deutsche Telekom sets up study into its ethics, corporate culture
    The study would attempt to find out how much significance Deutsche Telekom attaches to ethical and rule-abiding behaviour as well as the roles played by individuals... Read More
  3. Big data to shift focus to predictive analytics as IoT takes hold
    The telecoms industry will spend over $10 billion on such products and services in 2019, which will be on a par with counterparts in the government, professional services and retail verticals... Read More

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