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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 19, 2016 |
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Etisalat and QuarkSe demonstrate eSIM-enabled supercar
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eSIM will gradually replace the classic physical SIM card. It will enable a quick and easy activation process for a much wider array of devices than before – such as wearables, smart metering, smart city elements and cars as well as mobile phones, laptops and tablets...
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Sudatel signs MoU with Egypt Telecom
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The two companies will collaborate to increase QoS, explore new business opportunities within Africa and internationally, and share expertise...
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Cisco delivers IP/optical for Iraqi national backbone
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The Iraqi National Backbone is a joint venture between Symphony and EarthLink JLT, reaching most major Iraqi cities. Commercial launch is expected in March 2017...
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Microsoft develops first human-like speech recognition system
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Microsoft researchers have created a technology that accurately recognises the words in a conversation like humans do. The system makes the same or fewer errors than professional transcriptionists...
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Huawei to build new data centre for Dubai Airports
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On average, almost 230,000 passengers pass through DXB per day, growing towards 325,000 per day by 2023, making zero downtime and high reliability a vital requirement for Dubai Airports...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Vietnam grants next-gen licenses to three cellcos
The operators have been granted permission to roll out LTE services over the 1800-MHz band. The licenses will be allocated as part of Vietnam's government-approved telecommunications development plan, which includes a target of covering 95% of the population with 3G and 4G services by 2020... Read More
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South Asia
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- Dot bangla domain to open from Dec 16
The International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICAAN) has officially allotted the dot bangla (.bangla) internet domain to Bangladesh on October 4 after long procedures... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Safe city project to tackle Africa customers’ security needs
Huawei has set up safe city industry with a view to attracting more foreign direct investments, economic and tourism growth, improve local security of the citizens with deployment of its new 4G and cloud-based smart Safe City solution across cities in the African continent.... Read More
- Telecom Egypt selects Ciena for resilient optical mesh network
Telecom Egypt is the largest provider of fixed line services in the Middle East and Africa. With a more agile and scalable network, Telecom Egypt’s wholesale carrier, service provider, internet content provider and consortium customers will be able to provide diverse data transit routes for international data center interconnect... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Telstra close to launching Gigabit-class LTE
Telstra has worked with Qualcomm, Ericsson and NETGEAR to develop the world's first Gigabit-class LTE mobile device and Gigabit-class commercially ready LTE network... Read More
- Operators urged to use LTE-A Pro, NB-IoT to help devise 5G future
It's these new business models that are increasingly seen as the "revolutionary" aspect of 5G. The likes of beam-forming and carrier aggregation, technologies available today, will continue to be used into 5G and many operators expect LTE to offer the bulk of its coverage in the initial 5G years at least... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Yahoo finds profit in Mobile, Social, Native, Video
Revenue from mobile, video, native advertising, and social rose to $524 million from $422 million a year earlier. Revenue from mobile rose 46% to $396 million... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- China to provide half Asia-Pacific’s 157MN VOD subscriptions by 2021
By 2021, a total of 17.5% of TV households in the 17 Asia-Pacific countries studied will subscribe to VOD services, up from just 5.1% at the end of 2015 and 9.1% expected by the end of this year... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Vodafone, Inmarsat sign global internet deal for IoT sector
Vodafone and Inmarsat will together provide internet access to hard-to-reach places in the world, after signing a deal aimed at bringing connection to the global Internet of Things sector... Read More
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