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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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November 4, 2016 |
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Turkcell hands network management to Ericsson
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Turkcell provided free emergency communication packages to customers amid the instability in July...
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Etisalat carrier billing now available for App Store, Apple Music and iTunes purchases
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The service is available to all Etisalat customers in UAE for postpaid and prepaid mobile plans...
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Erik Almqvist of goetzpartners Middle East part of the panel of judges at CommsMea Awards 2016
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The awards will be conferred for the eleventh time upon operators and individuals who have taken a leadership role in the region’s fast growing and rapidly changing telecoms sector...
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Policy and Regulation
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- Egypt NTRA may revise international portal licence prices
The NTRA previously offered the international portal licence for a total of 3.5 billion Egyptian pounds provided that each mobile operator would pay 1.8 billion pounds. NTRA said it will collect the licence value entirely in dollars... Read More
- Morocco lifts ban on mobile internet voice calls
Skype, Whatsapp and Viber – immensely popular VoIP services that have been banned in Morocco for almost a year – have been fully restored... Read More
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South Asia
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- Pakistan world’s most affordable country in telecom
Pakistan has been ranked by WEF as the world’s best country for the Telecom and other Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services with regards to their monetary affordability... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- Telecom Egypt to deploy Ciena's GeoMesh
The operator needs to meet surging demand for high-bandwidth services on its national terrestrial network and subsea cable links between the Mediterranean and Asia... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- The elements required for IoT and a 5G network
There is more unknown than is known about 5G, and there are various dimensions to the up-and-coming networks... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Verizon backs Google’s proposal to modify 70-80 GHz band for 5G
Google’s proposal for generally continuing a ‘light-licensing’ approach for the 70-80 GHz band would be preferable to a complex experimental SAS regime that could risk harming existing backhaul operations and deterring future ones... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Teaming with telcos, pay-TV platforms “critical” to SVOD take-up in Asia
Bundling on-demand services with phone, broadband and IP-delivered pay-TV is becoming critical in driving online video adoption in Asia... Read More
- Rapid shift in TV and video viewing behaviour towards mobility
Even though both mobile video and on-demand (VOD) TV viewing have soared over the past seven years, content discovery remains a huge frustration for consumers... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- VimpelCom confident that licence fees will not derail Italian deal
Italy is expecting to raise EUR1.8 billion (USD2 billion) when it renews 900MHz and 1800MHz licences due to expire in 2018... Read More
- MVNO WiFi solution increases margins by 30%
data hungry consumers are increasingly turning to WIFI for their smartphone habit, with around 80% of smartphone data going over a WIFI network... Read More
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