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:.Daily News Briefing.:
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March 31, 2016 |
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Batelco provides services for Grand Prix
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Batelco's communication network at the BIC facilitates connectivity for the teams, corporate guests and visitors to the show. The competition takes place from 01 to 03 April...
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Orange Jordan signs strategic partnership with The Jordan Post Company
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Orange Jordan CEO Jérôme Hénique stressed on the importance of cooperation between Orange Jordan and its enterprise partners, including the Jordan Post Company. Hénique pointed out that this agreement falls in line with the company’s new corporate strategy, Essentials 2020...
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PCCW Global first to achieve MEF 100G CE 2.0 cert
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PCCW Global passed a series of tests covering a full set of 100G service attributes, including performance and bandwidth profiles. The MEF's official test lab Iometrix conducted the compliance testing...
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Policy and Regulation
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- PEMRA grants mobile TV license in Pakistan
The scope of Mobile TV licensee will be delivery of PEMRA licensed TV channels and FM radio content. Mobile TV licenses are issued on case to case basis for five years tenure as Value Added Service (VAS). The Authority also gave conditional approval of minimum technical standards/specifications for Digital Set Top boxes... Read More
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South Asia
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- RJIL stresses investment and technology amidst speculation of further delays
Reliance will have invested $22.62 billion in its mobile start up, Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJIL), by the time it launches and it claims that the operator will offer mobile broadband speeds up to 80 times faster than its rivals... Read More
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Middle East
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North Africa
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- The Economic Commission for Africa and African Union Commission to host African Development Week
African leaders, along with other world leaders, recommitted themselves to implementing a more sustainable development pathway through Agenda 2030. African Union Member States also demonstrated their commitment to the continental Agenda 2063... Read More
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3G, 4G & Beyond
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- Tashicell launches LTE in Bhutan
Tashicell is also offering LTE-compatible USB modems with price tags of BTN6,000 for post-paid customers and BTN5,500 for pre-paid users and including 15GB and 3.5GB of data respectively... Read More
- SK Telecom, Samsung complete 5G field trial
The companies also used the trial to test 3D beamforming, the key 5G technology involving compensating for radio propagation loss over higher frequency bands by steering antenna beams in both horizontal and vertical technologies... Read More
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OTT, Alternative Telecom
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- Snapchat's new features herald big challenge to Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp
While Facebook Messenger pursues ecommerce, and WhatsApp remains, for now, focussed on simplicity of communication, Snapchat is intent on positioning itself as the most "human" method of chatting... Read More
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Mobile Content, Mobile TV & IPTV
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- Fullscreen to take on Netflix, Amazon with ad-free SVOD service
In what it says will be the world’s first video membership experience programmed for the social-first generation, Fullscreen is to launch a global ad-free subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service on 26 April... Read More
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Global Telecom Update
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- Asia leads the world in cloud readiness
Sustained investments made in hard infrastructures such as cables, power and broadband combined with a far-sighted and pro-business regulatory environment are driving some asian countries to become preferred destinations for the cloud business... Read More
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