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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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January 12, 2017 |
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Ooredoo opens first fibre-to-the-home kiosk in Muscat City Centre
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Ooredoo’s efforts have led to the development of a wide variety of cost-efficient products, services and investments to its state-of-the-art fibre optic network...
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Stephan Rohloff new Chief Marketing Officer at DE-CIX
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Stephan Rohloff will help continue to develop the brand in the B2B segment, as well as further strategic global orientation and digital communication in order to reach global growth goals...
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Microsoft set to present new data control privacy dashboard
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Microsoft's diagnostic data collection options will also be streamlined to two (Basic and Full), and it will collect less data at that basic level...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Anatel awaits global standardization of 5G
Anatel, the Brazillian telecom regulator awaits global accord on 5G standards and will conduct 5G license after 2020 once global terms on bandwidth and frequencies are agreed... Read More
- Uber inks agreement with Dubai regulator
Ride-hailing service Uber signed an agreement with Dubai's transport authorities on Wednesday to become fully regulated after a series of clashes over pricing and availability... Read More
- Arcep calls for help in how to use 2.6GHz, 3.5GHz bands
Arcep is proposing 40MHz of the 2.6GHz band will be used by public sector bodies and 40MHz of the 3.5GHz band be used to improve coverage in rural areas. Both tranches of spectrum would be allocated by the end of 2017. The regulator said further spectrum within the 3.5GHz band would be made available for 5G use... Read More
- Myanmar awards fourth telecoms license
The liberalisation of Myanmar's telecoms sector has been a rare example of successful reform since the military ceded power in 2011, with the entry and rapid expansion of Norwegian operator Telenor and Qatar's Ooredoo... Read More
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South Asia
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- Nepal to conduct ICT event
CAN InfoTech, a six day exhibition of Nepal’s information and communication technology (ICT) sector is going to be held from January 26 this year... Read More
- Information Technology parks to be built in Pakistan
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom (MoITT) and Pakistan Software Export Board recently held a a meeting to review the progress on the establishment of IT parks in Pakistan... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Technical designs being created for mobile phone factories
Silicon Waha signed an agreement to establish mobile phone factories with SICO, ZTE, and Transsion during the Cairo ICT 2016 exhibition and is currently working on the technical designs for factories planned to be established in two technological zones... Read More
- GSMA analyzes 4G availability in Egypt
During a recent visit to Egypt, the GSMA´s Director General Mats Granryd attended the CAIRO ICT Forum has noted that 4G will serve as catalyst for economic growth and deliver broad societal benefits... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Pakistan adds 1 million 3G & 4G subscribers
According to the latest report, Pakistan has ended November 2016 with over 36.41 million 3G/4G subscribers, up from 35.44 million in October 2016 thus adding over a million subscribers in a month... Read More
- Telefonica’s LTE subscribers to benefit from network modernization
Ericssonand Cisco will provide Telefonica Guatemala with a new IP network backbone which will enable Telefonica’s LTE subscribers to benefit from increased mobile broadband speeds... Read More
- LTE-Advanced service launched in Singapore
Singapore’s largest mobile operator Singtel announced the nationwide deployment of LTE-Advanced (LTE-A) service, which it said deliverers peak download speeds of 450Mb/s...
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Redzone Wireless launches ultrafast broadband network
Redzone Wireless, an Internet service provider within USA, has activated the first phase of its new ultrafast 5Gx fixed wireless broadband network in selected areas in Maine... Read More
- State grants hefty funds for Broadband infrastructure
Lt. Gov. Tina Smith announced $34 million funds, which will cover 42 broadband infrastructure and will provide a high-speed internet connection to about 16,000 homes and 2,200 businesses... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Instagram brings advertising to stories
In a bid to boost advertising revenue, Facebook Inc’s Instagram is bringing more than 30 advertisers into one of its fastest-growing features, Instagram Stories... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Ericsson, Qualcomm and AT&T partner for 5G interoperability trials
Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies and AT&T plan to conduct interoperability testing and over-the-air field trials based on 5G New Radio (NR) specifications being developed by 3GPP... Read More
- Bharti Airtel launches payments bank nationwide
Airtel Payments Bank will invest towards building a vast digital payments ecosystem with millions of merchants, and allow customers to make convenient cashless payments for good and services with their mobile phones... Read More
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