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June 1, 2016 |
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Zain wins five prizes at Global Telecoms Business Innovation Awards
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Zain Group, a leading mobile telecom innovator in eight markets across the Middle East and Africa, announces the unprecedented award of five prizes at the prestigious 2016 Global Telecoms Business (GTB) Innovation Awards...
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Policy and Regulation
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- TRA UAE puts cap on mobile data bundles
The TRA released its directive after identifying several factors that could result in consumers being subjected to disproportionately higher over-bundle rates their knowledge, as in most cases, they are not aware of the costs incurred from out-of-bundle rates or the additional charges made once their bundles are all used up... Read More
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South Asia
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- Grab co-founder outlines secret to success in South East Asia
Grab has been able to out-manoeuvre US-based Uber, which has been expanding aggressively in the region, because it understands the local markets and has developed non-cookiecutter solutions, said Grab co-founder Tan Hooi Ling... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Standard Chartered launches Africa’s most extensive roll out of mobile and online banking
Standard Chartered Bank is bringing its newest mobile and online banking platform to 1 million clients across 8 African markets, the most extensive digital rollout of its kind in Africa by an international bank... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- IoT devices set to overtake mobile phones by 2018
A growing demand for IoT devices connected to smart meters and cars, as well as falling costs and innovative applications, will help IoT connected devices grow by a CAGR of 23 percent annually over the next five years... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- MegaFon gets eMotional about homemade OTT comms app
MegaFon is launching a new OTT communications app developed by its inhouse innovation team. While messages are free to send it charges users to make calls... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Apple moves up to 3rd place in global set-top box market
Global set-top box shipments grew 4.8 percent in 2015 to 353 million units, supported by expansion of IPTV services in China. Market revenue increased by 3.4 percent to USD 5.7 billion in the fourth quarter of 2015... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Major vendors collaborate on SDN/NFV interoperability
CENX has teamed up with Brocade, Red Hat, and RIFT.io for an initiative aimed at building end-to-end service orchestration and management solutions to accelerate the deployments of software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)... Read More
- Softbank to sell $7.9 billion of its stake in China’s Alibaba
The transaction marks the first sale of Alibaba shares by its largest shareholder since Softbank began investing in the company in 2000. Softbank's Alibaba stake will fall to about 28 percent of the Chinese firm from 32.2 percent in March... Read More
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