SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
February 1, 2017 |
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Celkon in talks for a JV with telcos in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh |
Hyderabad-based Celkon Mobiles is in talks with telecom players in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for a possible tie up after joining hands with Dubai's largest telco, Etisalat...
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Nokia launches a digital assistant for telcos |
Nokia has announced the launch of MIKA, the first digital assistant customized for the telecommunications industry. Nokia also introduced a new predictive repair service, which will enable operators to reduce costs by predicting hardware failures and recommending replacements up to 14 days in advance. The vendor said the service can achieve up to 95% accuracy...
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Trai proposes shutting down of analog transmission by 2023 |
While a large number of TV channels are available to the consumers through various delivery platforms such as DTH, Cable TV, IPTV, HITS etc, Trai said, the existing terrestrial TV platform provides only a few channels which do not offer a value proposition to the viewers...
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Omantel launches first Omani open e-learning platform Edlal |
One of the significant added features for Edlal is that it presents knowledge content in Arabic, which is important as it is trying to solve a vital weakness in the scarcity of Arabic e-content in the Middle East generally, which does not exceed three per cent, according to an international study in this field...
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North Africa |
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Egypt mobile firms add 970,000 new subscribers in Oct
According to figures from the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, the number of mobile phone subscribers in Egypt increased by 970,000 to 97.2 million in October, from 96.22 million in September...
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV |
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Nokia launches a digital assistant for telcos
Nokia has announced the launch of MIKA, the first digital assistant customized for the telecommunications industry. Nokia also introduced a new predictive repair service, which will enable operators to reduce costs by...
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Facebook to develop app for television set-top boxes
Facebook is creating an app for television set-top boxes, including Apple Inc's Apple TV, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter...
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Disclaimer: Information contained herein has been obtained from sources, which we deem reliable. SAMENA Telecommunications Council is not liable for any misinformed decisions that the reader may reach by being solely reliant on information contained herein. Expert advice should be sought. |
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