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Industry News Briefing
April 19, 2018

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du announces new budget smartphone offer

du has recently announced its new offer, which will allow companies to buy affordable devices for their employees through easy interest-free instalment plans of 12 or 24 months...

Policy and Regulation

•	Chunghwa may have to change satellite frequency as NCC starts examining 5G spectrum options Taiwan’s National Communications Commission (NCC) has suggested that the earth terminal for Chungwha Telecom’s ST-2 satellite may have to use a different frequency...

Middle East

•	Digital payments in UAE witness significant growth E-commerce and new methods of payment increasingly gain momentum within UAE...

•	Saudi Electricity, GE in partnership to boost digitalisation As per the memorandum of understanding, SEC and GE intend to continue to work together towards accelerating the digital transformation of the Kingdom’s power sector...

North Africa

•	Tunisia operators make mobile money interoperable Tunisia became the latest country to introduce interoperability between rival mobile money services, with the functionality set to be expanded to traditional financial institutions...

3G and 4G Networks

•	Vodafone boosts LTE upload speeds to 100Mbps Vodafone Germany has doubled the maximum upload speed offered over its 4G LTE network to 100Mbps...

•	Viettel reaches 10 million 4G subscribers in one year Military-run telecom provider Viettel on Thursday announced that its 4G subscribers reached 10.6 million by the end of March 2018, one year after its official launch of the service...

Alternative Telecom

•	Digi speeds up in Hungary Digi plans to make 1Gbps fibre internet available to all the homes it covers in Hungary within the next two years...

•	Russian Federation launches military satellite to improve Internet access The federally operated Proton launch, handled by the rocket's manufacturer Khrunichev, carried the second of four Blagovest satellites designed for internet, television and radio services.

South Asia

•	Mobile broadband dominates telecom industry of Pakistan Mobile broadband users remain significantly higher than fixed broadband user to the dominance of the mobile platform in Pakistan...

•	Kovair software establishes presence in Bangladesh Kovair announced establishment of a new Bangladesh entity as a joint venture collaborative entity with two local investors from Bangladesh to market and sell its ALM Integrations and DevOps and related products in the...

Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV

•	CETIN improves IPTV wholesale provisioning Czech infrastructure provider Ceska telekomunikacni infrastruktura has announced an improved proposition for wholesale IPTV via a new Mass Market Offer (MMO)...

•	Tigo One TV launches in Costa Rica Millicom has launched Tigo One TV in Costa Rica, kicking off the expansion of the next-gen service across Latin America...

•	Sri Lanka’s eChannelling offers video medical consultations, drug delivery eChannelling, an online medical appointment business has extended its value added services to offer local video consultations and provide drug delivery...

Global Telecom Update

•	Docomo trials 5G for remote healthcare Japan's NTT Docomo has completed a trial involving the use of 5G technology to conduct remote medical examinations...

•	Honeywell, Burj Khalifa mark a decade of IoT The iconic Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Honeywell recently marked 10 years of cutting-edge connected technology and Internet of Things (IoT) innovations which were used to optimise the experience of its residents...

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