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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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October 8, 2015 |
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www.samenacouncil.org
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Members
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- SAMENA Council to chair public and private sector knowledge-exchange at ITU's global platforms
SAMENA Council will chair ITU's 5th Chief Regulatory Officers' Meeting as well as a key thought-leadership panel during ITU Telecom World 2015, to be held in Budapest, Hungary, next week... Read More
- Etisalat to offer iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in the UAE on midnight of 10th October
With the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, Etisalat’s customers will be able to take advantage of Etisalat’s fastest LTE network with turbo speeds of up to 300 Mbps... Read More
- du to offer iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in UAE beginning Saturday
The handsets will be available from du starting at zero upfront fees and will benefit from 11GB of data and 300 flexible minutes for a low monthly fee of AED 300... Read More
- Mobily opens the first "Toastmasters' Club in the Eastern Province of KSA
The " Mobily - Toastmasters" club is the first of its kind in the telecom companies in the Kingdom, and it is one of the company's programs aiming to develop the professional skills of employees... Read More
- Ufone, UBank, NAVVTC extend agreement for Upaisa mPayment services
The agreement will enable disbursement of stipends to students of a leading training body in Pakistan, actively working on technical capacity-building of human resources... Read More
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Policy and Regulation
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- Four telecom companies in Thailand pre-qualified for 1,800MHz
They are Advanced Wireless Network of Advanced Info Service, DTAC TriNet Network of Total Access Communication, True Move H Universal Communi-cation of True Corp and Jas Mobile of Jasmine International... Read More
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South Asia
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- Tata Teleservices wants 800 MHz airwaves freed for 4G services in four circles
Tata Tele's airwaves in the 800 Mhz band are well-suited for high-speed 4G services in the four circles which count as among India's highest revenue service areas... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Mobile operators directly contributed US$31 billion to Sub-Saharan African economy, representing 1.7 percent of GDP
Total mobile connections2 in Sub-Saharan Africa are on track to reach 722 million by year-end. Mobile broadband (3G/4G) will account for almost a quarter of connections this year, but will increase to 57 per cent by 2020... Read More
- MTN meets data QoS test requirements; invested over $2.4 billion from 2006 to 2014
While Ghana's regulator has been conducting quality of service tests for voice for some time now, the July 2015 tests are the first for data... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Huawei, DOCOMO conduct field trial of 5G new radio access technology
The technology provider plans to launch the first 5G pilot networks with its partners in 2018, and aims to contribute to the 5G industry ecosystem to complete interoperability testing in 2019... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Hulu, Viacom expand exclusive OTT content partnership
The rapidly growing over-the-top (OTT) firm has expanded its content partnership to gain exclusive subscription video on-demand (VOD) rights... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Growing IPTV demand to boost the global residential gateway market
The residential gateway market will grow at a CAGR of nearly 8% from 2015-2019, propped up by IPTV which itself is expected to grow at 20% over the same period... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Italian IoT network on the way after latest SIGFOX deal confirmed
SIGFOX will help deliver a nationwide IoT network capable of delivering industrial-grade machine to machine connectivity over cellular networks. At present, Italy is one of Europe’s biggest M2M markets... Read More
- Telkom SA migrates fixed pre-paid users to wireless platform
The operator is migrating subscribers of two of its fixed line pre-paid voice services from its copper network to what it termed as a wireless ‘fixed-line-look-alike (FLLA)’ platform... Read More
- Deutsche Telekom picks Alcatel-Lucent for flight service
Passengers will be able to use their WLAN-enabled mobile devices to use mobile data access using the seamless transition between the LTE ground network and the satellite network... Read More
- Vodafone announces new security product
Vodafone Vehicle Defence is the only cost-effective, compact on-demand tracking device to use both GPS and GSM technology to connect to a network, to provide on-demand vehicle tracking... Read More
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