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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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August 30, 2016 |
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du’s partnership with Dubai Opera cements the emirate’s status as a beacon of art and culture
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Together with du, Dubai Opera will bring a new element of entertainment and culture to the UAE with over 150 performances each year including ballet, classical and world music, Broadway musicals and theatre, and family entertainment...
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Cisco acquires ContainerX for management console
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The company describes its product as the world’s first multi-tenant container-as-a-service (CaaS) platform for both Linux and Windows...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Berec issues final net neutrality enforcement guidelines
Berec's guidelines set out how traffic management must occur independent of users and applications, in order to ensure non-discrimination... Read More
- EU Commission's tax bill worth Euro 13 billion imposed on technology multinational
The Irish government has accused the EU of overstepping its authority in tax matters and disrupting the international consensus on tax issues... Read More
- Iran launches first phase of national intranet
The Iranian government has formally launched the first phase of its National Information Network (NIN), which it says allows improved high speed access to e-government services and domestic content... Read More
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South Asia
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- Operators in Pakistan to adopt NFC payment methods
NFC is the most advanced and swift payment method adapted at large in developed and emerging markets. NFC payments will also assist merchants in experiencing a new financial instrument... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- A new mobile money wallet across Africa launched
JumiaPay comes as a major milestone for improving customers’ online experience in Africa for the coming months and years, following in the footsteps of Chinese ecommerce, Alibaba and its online payment platform... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- 5G connections may reach 690 million by 2025
5G to account for 7% of mobile connections by this time, driven by early adopters in the US, South Korea and Japan... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Turkcell, VimpelCom shareholder invests in FreedomPop
The MVNO, which runs on Sprint’s network in the US and Three’s in the UK, offers users a free mobile service after a one-off activation fee. It makes its money by charging users for extra minutes, SMS and data once they have used up their monthly allowance... Read More
- Whatsapp updates T&Cs as it prepares to open up to enterprise market
The Facebook-owned company ditched subscription fees in January and said it would look to monetise its messaging service by allowing businesses to communicate with subscribers... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- The future of mobile video is virtual reality
The oldest and most basic user need is immediacy, or the ability to access content in real time, which is rooted in our consumption of broadcast TV and radio media. This need helps explain the explosion of live video in the past 18 months... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- APAC faces widening broadband access divide
74.89% of total fixed broadband subscriptions in Asia and the Pacific are concentrated in East and Northeast Asia, followed by South and Southwest Asia (9.77%), North and Central Asia (7.68%), Southeast Asia (5.74%) and the Pacific (1.93%)... Read More
- eir launches legal bid to free itself of rural telephone obligation
The incumbent telco is attempting to free itself of the financial constraints contained in the country’s universal service obligation (USO), launching a legal challenge in which it argues that the proliferation of mobile and fixed broadband alternatives has rendered the USO for basic telephone services in rural areas obsolete... Read More
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