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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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April 27, 2016 |
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Ooredoo opens its fourteenth franchise store in Mabella
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Reaching out across the Sultanate, Ooredoo is not only growing its presence but also making its network stronger, faster and more reliable...
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du selects Polystar to monitor VoLTE and IMS services
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In addition to the new IMS and VoLTE service elements, there is an existing, multi-domain network that includes GSM, GPRS, UMTS and LTE technologies...
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Huawei expands regional SME support through new channel partnership with FDC International
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This partnership forms part of Huawei’s direction to support the SME market through the recruitment of select partners who are able to deliver on Huawei’s value-add proposition...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Zimbabwe to implement new QoS levels for telcos
The new QoS rules state that at least 95% of mobile calls should connect successfully and within five seconds, while at least 80% should be set up and complete properly, among other KPIs... Read More
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South Asia
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- DBS introduces a mobile-only bank in India
In-built into digibank is a budget optimizer that helps customers do their budgeting, track expenses and analyze purchasing trends. The function is equipped to understand customer behavior and preferences, synthesize data, and provide recommendations... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Incumbent Libtelco's deal with Novafone anticipated
It is being reported that if successful in its bid, Libtelco will offload a 60% stake in the cellco to UK-based Vodafone Group, which is already active in 26 countries and has partner networks in over 50 more.... Read More
- Nigeria accounts for 61.3 million of MTN’s 232.5 million global subscribers
For the Middle East and North Africa region, which includes Iran, Syria, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Cyprus and South Sudan, the subscriber growth rate was 0.7 percent to 73.6 million... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Celcom Axiata partnering with Ericsson and Huawei for 4G network upgrade
This development follows up on Celcom’s announcement from last week that it would extensively spend in 2016 alone as it looks to improve its service offerings... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Alibaba Cloud signs SaaS alliance with Accenture
Through this collaboration, Alibaba Cloud and Accenture will jointly deliver third-party cloud-based solutions via the Alibaba Cloud platform. The two companies will also co-develop solutions based on their industry-specific solutions... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Massive shift towards direct mobile downloads as piracy threat vector
Research from content protection, data-analytics and piracy audience marketing solutions provider MUSO has revealed that 28% of all visits to piracy sites in 2015 were through mobile devices... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- KT, Telstra, EE, Verizon form LTE-B Alliance
The new LTE technology has the potential to serve as a service platform for IoT connectivity, communicating to billions of devices simultaneously... Read More
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