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SAMENA Daily - Industry News Briefing
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Industry News Briefing
September 1, 2019 |
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| MainOne says cable system will land in Senegal in September, Cote d'Ivoire in October |
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MainOne has confirmed the scheduled landing of the MainOne submarine cable systems in Senegal in September and Cote d’Ivoire in October, reports CommunicationsWeek. The Cable Landing Stations (CLS) in Dakar and Abidjan are complete and ready for the installation of equipment. MainOne is poised to undertake the physical connection of the branching units on its 7,000 km omnibus fibre pair to the shore. The MainOne submarine cable is being installed by the Orange Marine specialist vessel Pierre de Fermat, which has arrived in Dakar. It picked up the fibre and ancillary equipment, including repeaters, from Brest in France earlier in the month. It will proceed to Abidjan to conclude the laying and final splice in October. Commercial...
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| Ofcom consults on applying Code Powers to Fibrenation, F&W Networks |
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UK regulator Ofcom is consulting on proposals to apply code powers to F&W Networks and Fibrenation. Fibrenation, a fully-owned subsidiary of TalkTalk, operates a FTTP access network in York and is currently expanding the network to the neighbouring areas of Ripon, Harrogate and Knaresborough. It is seeking code powers to enable it to operate more independently of TalkTalk and to support the expansion of its network to serve 3 million premises across the UK.
F&W Networks is a new market entrant seeking code powers for plans to deploy a FTTP access network serving smaller towns across the UK. It plans to build a network to more than one million homes by 2024, targeting areas not currently served or not planned to be served by rival...
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| Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan has visited Huawei R&D center in Shenzhen |
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As part of his visit to China, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Uzbekistan, Abdulla Aripov, visited Huawei's Shenzhen Digital Transformation Exhibition Hall. In Exhibition Hall occupying 3300 sq m delegation got acquainted with products and solutions for corporate business segment, vertical industries, partners and state authorities...
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Sri Lanka Telecom teams up with Virtusa
Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT) entered into an agreement with Virtusa Private Limited, a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering and IT outsourcing services recently...
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Axiata-Trust Bank JV gets nod to launch MFS
A joint venture of Trust Bank and Malaysia’s Axiata Group is set to roll out a new kind of mobile financial service in Bangladesh...
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Streaming media platform Plex inks deal with Warner Bros
Streaming media platform Plex has signed an agreement with Warner Bros Domestic Television Distribution to expand its collection of third-party content...
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TF1 inks content licence with CBS
In a deal covering series such as FBI: Most Wanted and Evil, CBS Studios International and France’s TF1 Group have announced an exclusive multi-series licensing agreement...
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MTN Nigeria launches money transfer service
MTN has launched a mobile money transfer service, targeting those without bank accounts, and said that it plans to become a payment services bank once it obtains approval from the central bank..
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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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