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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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August 24, 2016 |
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Türk Telekom to continue infrastructure investments
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Türk Telekom, which is 30% state owned, will continue its planned investment programme. The operator played a major role in helping the elected government overcome July’s coup attempt...
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Microsoft and Lenovo ink app and patent pact
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Microsoft’s productivity apps, including Office, OneDrive and Skype, will be loaded onto Lenovo devices, and the vendor “expects to ship millions of these Android-based devices worldwide over the next several years”...
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Policy and Regulation
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- BTK Turkey abolishes the minimum price regulation for retail mobile voice and SMS
The minimum price rules required the average on-net prices of all Turkcell’s standard and promotional retail mobile voice/SMS tariffs to be set at over 1.7 times the wholesale mobile termination rates applied by Turkcell to rival operators per minute/number of SMS... Read More
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South Asia
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- Sri Lanka Telecom to provide global connectivity backhauling facility via Sri Lanka
SLT has gained full landing status of SMW5 Cable Station in Matara, aiming to be a key regional player by offering state-of-the-art global services provided through multiple international undersea cable systems that run through the country... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Huawei aims to increase market share to 30% in Egypt with new products in 2017
Huawei launched its new mobile phone Y6II with a 5.5-inch screen in the Egyptian market on Tuesday... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Nokia and Ooredoo Myanmar launch 4G service
The 4G solution runs on Ooredoo’s 2100MHz spectrum, but the carrier said it will look to invest in 1800MHz and 2600MHz bands in upcoming spectrum auctions, the first of which is set to take place in October... Read More
- SK Telecom to join consultative body for 5G
The cooperative body will discuss ways to ensure interoperability with existing networks, including fourth-generation long term evolution, or LTE, networks. The group is also expected to discuss early-stage system standards for 5G as well as ways to further develop the technology... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Pinterest acquires Instapaper
Pinterest, which has more than 100 million users, was last valued at $11 billion in a funding round in March 2015. 75 percent of the content viewed by users on Pinterest comes from businesses... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Customer loyalty tested by app and video streaming issues
Net Promoter Scores (NPS) are no longer enough to properly gauge smartphone user loyalty, mainly because they take no account of the changing expectations of network performance due to new video streaming app behaviour... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Google, Intel, Nokia, Qualcomm and others form 3.5 GHz alliance
The availability of the 3.5 GHz band has been spoken about for a while, but the rules governing the coexistence of incumbent users with new entrants were only formalised earlier this year... Read More
- MegaFon launches debit card linked to mobile account
Customers will be able to pay for goods and services with the contactless card wherever MasterCards are accepted, and transfer money to other MegaFon subscribers commission free... Read More
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