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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 2, 2015 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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Members
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- ADL: operators should openly collaborate with startup companies
ADL suggested that shared “innovation goals” should be made the focus of operators’ overall business objectives, which can be helped by operators opening up their R&D models... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Regulation expected on net neutrality and OTT players in India
Services such as WhatsApp, Skype and Viber need to be regulated in some way, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)... Read More
- Sri Lanka to adopt digital policy steps for child protection
Explaining about this system, the minister said a child will be given a personnel mobile phone through which he or she could dial his or her parents' numbers or dial the police emergency... Read More
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South Asia
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- Upcoming in-market consolidation in Pakistan's telecom sector
The expected merger would provide Warid customers the option of 3G while Mobilink’s customers could avail of 4G services and better QoS. Agreement expected by end-2015... Read More
- RCom, Reliance Jio in network-sharing talks
This would allow Reliance Jio to use RCom's network to provide circuit-switched voice services, while RCom would be able to take advantage of Reliance Jio's LTE nationwide rollout... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Cisco, Microsoft and Mentor Graphics eye higher investments in Egypt
The companies expressed readiness to boost volume of investments in the country... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- NTT DOCOMO launches international VoLTE roaming in South Korea
DOCOMO expects to expand its VoLTE roaming service into other countries through partnerships with local companies. Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Televisa to re-launch OTT platform in 2016
Televisa's plans may be focused on pushing Veo, which was launched in 2013, to become a leading platform in the Mexican OTT market, currently dominated by Netflix... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Mobile TV viewing jumps 7% in one year
More than a third of consumers who watch TV shows online use a smartphone for TV viewing (37%), a figure that has risen 7 points from 2014 (30%)... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Alfa acquires Mexico's Axtel to expand telecom business
While Axtel has focused on residential customers, offering fiber-optic lines with video and high-speed Internet in large cities such as Monterrey and Mexico City, Alestra has migrated to value-added data services... Read More
- AT&T is working on a super-high-speed Internet solution for rural America
AT&T’s testing has yielded download speeds of between 15 and 25 Mbps, which is more than enough for HD streaming and other high-end online activities... Read More
- Unused Wi-Fi spectrum may be costing mobile operators billions
Carrier Wi-Fi technology is central to supporting most global 4G, and ultimately 5G, network architectures to deliver the best possible user experience... Read More
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