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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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September 30, 2016 |
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Zain crowned ‘Best Telecom Brand’ at Telecom World Middle East Awards 2016 for third consecutive year
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Zain’s operation in Saudi Arabia was presented with the ‘Best Customer Experience’ service award, while Zain Jordan and Zain Iraq jointly received an award for ‘Best Consumer Service’ for their life-enhancing ‘Zain Cash’ mobile money offering...
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Microsoft creates AI and Research Group
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The Microsoft AI and Research Group is dedicated "to democratizing AI for every person and organization, making it more accessible and valuable to everyone and ultimately enabling new ways to solve some of society’s toughest challenges...
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DE-CIX Madrid becomes the fastest growing Internet Exchange worldwide
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60 networks have are already signed-up for the DE-CIX peering and interconnection services and the data traffic has broken records on a week-to-week basis...
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Huawei outlines the UBB roadmap for relecom operators & the FMC 3.0 business proposition
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Based on the FMC3.0-centric business proposition, Huawei defines three directions for the development of telecom operators' ultra-broadband network. From telecom operators' point of view, FMC 1.0 was more about the broadband connection services which converged the fixed and mobile broadband networks. FMC 2.0 focused on the monetization of UBB through continuous optimization and development of content services, which are positioned as the basic service...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Pakistan to get 100 percent universal connectivity by 2018
The objective behind the USF projects is to provide connectivity to the marginalised and remote areas of the country. The government has expressed commitment to complete all its milestones to achieve universal connectivity... Read More
- Communication satellite, third mobile operator in Oman expected
A series of studies and a number of specialized committees have been developed to launch the communications satellite for Oman to meet the growing requirements of the telecoms sector... Read More
- EU looks to remove national barriers to data flows
The European Commission wants to reduce national restrictions on where some types of commercial and health data can be stored... Read More
- Sri Lankan telecoms minister calls for the removal of taxes on smartphones
It has been requested that the Ministry of Finance remove the taxes imposed on smartphones in the upcoming national budget in order to promote the use of data by mobile users... Read More
- Tunisian regulator opens fibre sharing consultation
The regulator hopes that the establishment of viable economic and technical conditions for sharing networks will help incentivise rollouts by minimising costs... Read More
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South Asia
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- Airtel Lanka partners with mCash for bill payments
The launch of this new service will offer all Airtel Lanka customers the opportunity to make Pre-Paid top-ups and pay their respective Post-Paid voice and data bills via the Cashnetwork which now extends to more than 12,000 + outlets across Sri Lanka... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Niger to merge state-owned telecoms companies
Niger has 7 million mobile subscribers and four mobile operators, including Sahelcom, Bharti Airtel of India's local unit, France's Orange, and Moov... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- 5G represents €113.1bn opportunity for EU countries
The next-generation of mobile technology is also expected to create as many as 2.3 million jobs across the EU, and generate trickle-down benefits worth as much €141 billion... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Facebook tests Snapchat Stories clone for Messenger
Snapchat Stories, for the unfamiliar, is a feature that lets users share photos, videos and drawings in a timeline that disappears after 24 hours. Messenger Day works almost exactly like Snapchat Stories... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Telefónica to deploy Vivendi’s mobile-first video services
Vivendi and Telefonica share the same view that compelling content and innovative formats will meet the expectations of new audiences... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- VimpelCom partners Cisco Jasper on M2M/IoT global expansion
Clients will also be able to expand M2M/IoT services to their customers across all markets that are served by VimpelCom, in Russia, Italy, Algeria, Pakistan, Ukraine, Bangladesh and Eurasia countries... Read More
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