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Telefónica Selects Amdocs for Operational Data Store in Chile and Peru

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Alec Barton
Category: Service Management
20 May 2015
8850 views
  • Latin America
  • Telefonica
  • Peru
  • Big Data
  • Analytics
  • Chile
  • Amdocs

Amdocs is supplying an operational data store solution to Telefónica Chile and Telefónica Peru to collect, store and gain actionable business insights from their volumes of data.

ALU Completes Ghana Rural Fibre Backbone

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
20 May 2015
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  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Ghana
  • Burkina Faso
  • Rural Connectivity
  • Fiber-Optic

Alcatel-Lucent has successfully completed Ghana's Eastern corridor rural fibre optic backbone project which opens up communications across a wide swathe of rural Ghana.

Emerging Markets Lead Smartphone Growth Q1 2015

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Alec Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
19 May 2015
8512 views
  • Smartphones
  • Data
  • 4G LTE
  • Industry Trends

Emerging APAC markets, along with Africa and the Middle East are currently the world's fastest growing smartphone markets.

Chinese operators pledge to lower data tariffs following criticism

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James Barton
Category: Operators
18 May 2015
7202 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • China Mobile
  • China
  • China Unicom
  • China Telecom
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Data Tariffs

The big three Chinese operators have all confirmed that they will slash their data tariffs as well as increasing network speeds.

Turkey delays 4G auctions after President suggests skipping to 5G

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James Barton
Category: Regulation
18 May 2015
8711 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Turkey
  • Spectrum Auctions
  • 5G
  • 4G Spectrum

Turkey has pushed back its 4G auctions following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggesting that the country should leapfrog straight from 3G to 5G.

Türk Telekom and NTT form IP Transit Partnership

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
15 May 2015
7532 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Turkey
  • Turk Telekom
  • Wholesale
  • NTT Communications
  • IP Transit

Türk Telekom International (TTI) has selected NTT Communications to supply wholesale IP transit services across its operations.

Malawi launch means 1 billion can access Internet.org

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
15 May 2015
7381 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Malawi
  • Facebook
  • Internet.org

Facebook’s Internet.org initiative has launched in Malawi, raising the number of people who can access its “100-plus free basic services” to 1 billion.

MTN Foundation and Oracle collaborate to boost ICT skills in Nigeria

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
15 May 2015
9108 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Oracle
  • Nigeria
  • Education
  • ICT

MTN Foundation and Oracle are collaborating on an ICT training project for MTNF scholars.

TNS and Kantar Media form mobile research partnership with GeoPoll in Africa

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
14 May 2015
5475 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Surveys
  • TNS

Global research consultancy TNS has today announced a strategic partnership with GeoPoll, the world’s largest mobile survey platform.

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Zain and Vodafone partner on Enterprise M2M in Middle East

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James Barton
Category: Enterprise Ecosystems
13 May 2015
9575 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • M2M
  • Vodafone
  • Kuwait
  • Zain
  • Enterprise

Zain Group and Vodafone have expanded their partner market agreement to deliver Machine-To-Machine (M2M) services to Enterprise and Government sectors in the Middle East.

Safaricom selects Ericsson for network upgrade

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
13 May 2015
6987 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Kenya
  • Mobile Broadband
  • Ericsson
  • Wi-fi
  • Safaricom

Kenyan operator Safaricom has selected Ericsson to provide an upgrade and expansion of its converged mobile network infrastructure.

Gabon Telecom upgrades Wholesale Billing Operations with CSG

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
13 May 2015
6517 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Gabon Telecom
  • Gabon
  • CSG
  • Wholesale Billing Management

Gabon Telecom is implementing CSG’s Wholesale Business Management Solution as part of an upgrade to its billing systems.

Robi brings Internet.org to Bangladesh

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
12 May 2015
10619 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Bangladesh
  • Facebook
  • Robi
  • Internet.org

Bangladeshi number three Robi has launched Facebook’s Internet.org initiative in the South Asian country.

RCom planning to divest Indian towers business

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James Barton
Category: Operators
12 May 2015
9557 views
  • Central South Asia
  • Towers
  • India
  • RCom
  • Reliance Communications
  • Reliance Infratel

Indian number four Reliance Communication (RCom) is planning to divest at least a majority holding in its tower business, Reliance Infratel.

Telefonica Brazil offering raises $5.3B

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James Barton
Category: Operators
11 May 2015
8330 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Acquisitions
  • Vivendi
  • GVT
  • Telefonica Brasil

Telefonica Brasil’s public offering has brought in BRL16 billion ($5.3 billion) to finance its acquisition of broadband provider GVT.

MTN provides free downloads of all Nigerian apps

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
11 May 2015
8995 views
  • Apps
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Nigeria
  • MTN Nigeria
  • App Stores

MTN Nigeria is offering a full month of free downloads for all Nigerian apps, in a campaign branded APPtitude.

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Alcatel-Lucent and Ocean Networks to build South America Pacific Link

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
11 May 2015
8986 views
  • Latin America
  • Ecuador
  • Panama
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Chile
  • Submarine Cable
  • Ocean Networks
  • Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks

Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks (ASN) is partnering with Ocean Networks to build a 14,200 km submarine cable system linking Hawaii to South America.  

Intracom providing Small-Cell Wireless Backhaul Radios to MTS Russia

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
08 May 2015
8797 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Russia
  • MTS
  • Small Cells
  • MTS Russia
  • Millimetre Wave
  • Intracom

Leading Russian operator MTS has tapped Intracom to supply its mmWave outdoor Ethernet radios.

Slovak Telekom IPO scrapped following mystery bid

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James Barton
Category: Operators
07 May 2015
7751 views
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Acquisitions
  • Slovakia
  • Slovak Telekom
  • Deutsche Telekom

The Slovakian government has shelved the scheduled IPO for Slovak Telekom after receiving an offer from an unnamed bidder.

Thai government policy must encourage broadband growth, says GSMA

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James Barton
Category: Trends & Forecasts
07 May 2015
7098 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Thailand
  • Mobile Broadband
  • GSMA
  • Government

The GSMA has issued a new report highlighting how effective government policy in Thailand could increase mobile and fixed broadband penetration to 133% by 2020, up from 52% in 2013.

Ooredoo Enhances 4G Roaming Experience with Syniverse IPX Solution

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
07 May 2015
10843 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • 4G
  • Roaming
  • Ooredoo
  • Syniverse
  • Qatar

Ooredoo Qatar has commissioned Syniverse’s IPX Network Solution to enhance the its 4G roaming service for customers.

Oi begins update to broadband network with Alcatel-Lucent

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
06 May 2015
7851 views
  • Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Broadband
  • Oi
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • Bandwidth

Oi has begun implementation of a new broadband data communication network architecture from Alcatel-Lucent.

Saudi Arabia gets one-touch carrier billing for Google Play with Boku

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James Barton
Category: Revenue & Billing
05 May 2015
9078 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Zain KSA
  • Direct Carrier Billing
  • Google Play
  • Boku

Boku has launched its carrier billing solution in the Google Play store.

Algerian government taps Alcatel-Lucent for Europe fibre link

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
05 May 2015
8055 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Algeria
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent and the Algerian Ministry of Post, Information Technology and Communications are deploying a fibre optic link between Algeria and Spain.

Aviat Networks to modernise MTN South Africa’s backhaul network

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James Barton
Category: Wireless Networks
05 May 2015
9492 views
  • Backhaul
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • Microwave
  • MTN
  • Aviat Networks

Microwave networking solutions firm Aviat Networks has announced a three-year turnkey agreement with MTN South Africa, part of the MTN Group.

m2fx partners with Hevek to accelerate Fibre to the Home deployments in Iraq

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James Barton
Category: Optical & Fixed Networks
05 May 2015
7086 views
  • Middle East North Africa
  • Iraq
  • Fibre Optic Cable
  • FttH

Fibre optic specialist Hevek Company has partnered with fibre cable manufacturer m2fx to launch the latter’s Miniflex products in Iraq.

emergency.lu Deploying in Response to the Earthquake in Nepal

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
01 May 2015
8872 views
  • Disaster relief
  • Central South Asia
  • Nepal
  • SES SA
  • emergency.lu

SES S.A, as one of the private partners in emergency.lu, is providing vital connectivity services following the recent earthquake in Nepal.

Kazakhstan’s Kcell JSC transforming BSS with Amdocs

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
30 April 2015
8042 views
  • BSS
  • Central South Asia
  • Amdocs
  • Kcell
  • Kazakhstan

Kazakhstani market leader Kcell JSC has selected Amdocs for a business support systems (BSS) transformation project.

Tigo and Momac pushing SmartApps in Latin America

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
29 April 2015
10109 views
  • Latin America
  • Colombia
  • El Salvador
  • Guatemala
  • Millicom
  • Tigo
  • Momac
  • Honduras
  • Bolivia

Millicom has partnered with Momac to launch SmartApps, a new Tigo-branded mobile service that will give mobile customers access to premium content.

Globe offering zero-rated WhatsApp in Philippines

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
28 April 2015
8206 views
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Philippines
  • Globe Telecom
  • WhatsApp
  • Zero-rating

Globe has partnered with WhatsApp to offer zero-rated access to the mobile messaging app with a prepaid promo or postpaid plan subscription.

Cell C expands call completion and IVR platform with Tecnotree

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James Barton
Category: Service Management
28 April 2015
5797 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • South Africa
  • TecnoTree
  • Cell C

South African operator Cell C has selected Tecnotree to expand its call completion and IVR platform.

Enterprise ICT markets in Africa: the USD900 million question

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Robert Schumann
Category: Trends & Forecasts
28 April 2015
12914 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • SMEs
  • Botswana
  • Kenya
  • Enterprise
  • Nigeria
  • Analysys Mason
  • Ghana
  • Cote d'Ivoire
  • ICT

Two senior executives from rival African ICT service providers were playing golf. One remarked casually, while his opponent was trying to putt, that enterprise ICT sales in their countries of operation reached USD900 million last year.

Oracle Academy and Raspberry Pi offer new initiative for African schools

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James Barton
Category: Humanitarian Comms
27 April 2015
9561 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Education
  • Applications

Oracle Academy and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have partnered on a project to join thousands of schools in Africa and around the world in a global science experiment.

New job portal Everjobs launches in Cameroon

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James Barton
Category: Consumer Ecosystems
27 April 2015
7555 views
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Cameroon
  • Employment

A new online job portal dubbed Everjobs has launched in Cameroon.

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