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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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November 23, 2016 |
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STC honored for supporting “Tweet For Humanity” campaign
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King Abdullah Foundation CEO, honored STC for supporting “Tweet for Humanity” campaign on the occasion of the world humanitarian day. Additionally, STC Business organized a workshop at Airbus head office in Finland...
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Turkcell trials first LiTRA trunking app for emergency services
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Turkcell and Huawei have announced the first live demonstration of an LTE-based trunk service designed for mission critical communications. The showcase of LTE integrated Trunked Radio (LiTRA), running on Turkcell’s 4.5G network in Turkey, was a world-first...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Slovenian regulator kicks off deliberation over broadband wireless spectrum
Slovenia’s Agency for Communications Networks & Services has opened a consultation into the award of broadband wireless spectrum in the 3.5GHz, 10GHz and 12GHz bands. Read More
- NBTC asked to lower telecom licence, phone number fees
THE National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) has been asked to reduce the annual licence and monthly phone-number fees for all telecom companies. Read More
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South Asia
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- Ecommerce potential on the rise in Pakistan
E-commerce trends in Pakistan are changing rapidly due to the growing number of broadband/3G/4G users as well as government efforts for digital inclusion. Read More
- Sri Lanka's Dialog to provide business process outsourcing (BPO) services
Malaysia’s telecom giant Axiata Group Bhd’s, Sri Lankan subsidiary Dialog Axiata Plc has announced to form Dialog Business Services (Pvt) Ltd (DBS), a company that... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Cairo becomes Uber's biggest and busiest African city
Egypt’s capital Cairo has this year surpassed South Africa’s business hub Johannesburg as being internet ride-sharing service Uber’s biggest and busiest African city. Read More
- African mobile subscriptions to exceed 1 billion; data revenue to multiply
There will be one billion mobile broadband connections in Africa in 2021, including 157.4 million 4G LTE connections. non-SMS mobile data revenue in Africa will rise from $6.40 billion in 2015 to $27.56 billion in 2021... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- MTS Belarus set to launch LTE services
Mobile operator MTS Belarus has announced that it plans to launch its LTE services in regional centres by the end of this year. At the beginning of 2017... Read More
- With 5G, it's about network slicing
Network slicing enables the network elements and functions to be easily configured and reused in each slice to meet a specific requirement and use case... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) subscribers to top 138 million
A report from Digital TV Research shows that for 2016, North America will have 112 million subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) subs, up by 19 million on 2015. Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- EWE to launch IPTV service
German regional telco EWE has tapped Zattoo to launch an IPTV service with 100 live TV channels, almost half of which in high-definition, in the basic package with add-ons available. Read More
- Middle East bank to launch AI for customer support
Middle East banking group Emirates NBD is piloting an intelligent virtual assistant with selected customers and plans to launch it soon. Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Ericsson launches verified NFV infrastructure solution
Ericsson has launched its verified Network Functions Virtualization infrastructure (NFVi) solution with multivendor capabilities and a transformation service offering. Read More
- SAP turns to IoT to transform process automation
SAP is making a big push with partners to increase the levels of process and factory automation for Internet of Things solutions. Read More
- Nokia claims new AI-based customer care apps can reduce network call-outs by 90%
The vendor's Motive Service Management Platform 7.0 features a new self-optimising system, which can determine the best sequence of tasks to deliver the resolve billing, subscription and network issues in the shortest amount of time... Read More
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